HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Big Questions, Mental Disorder, Catatonia
15 Sep 2016
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Things that you would expect to appear in a persons behavior, but it is not. The look on your face, mood no emotion showing: anhedonia. Can"t experience pleasure, doesn"t enjoy things that they once did, also effects food (has no taste: asociality. No ambition to do anything: alogia. Not saying much, one or two word answers. Trouble focusing, lack of memory, shifting topics speech changes. Answers questions in way that doesn"t make sense to others. Holding posture for long times, looks unusual. The only way it continues to exist is because its new, people with schizophrenia tend to have low fertility rates so it would have been breed out. K: what if these are disease but rather symptoms group them together = demntia prarecox. Emphasis on positive symptoms desirous and hallucinations. B: its not only about young people and its not dementia. Considered negative symptoms more important than positive - mood. Europeans stay with k, americans go with b.
