NURSING 3PA2 A Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Avolition, Catatonia, Schizophrenia
22 May 2020
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Interference with filtering of stimuli from environment: occurs in 1. 3% of canadian population, equally distributed, women have later onset, estrogen is protective factor, 10% of people with schiz will commit suicide. Auditory most common: simple repetitive sounds, many voices speaking at once. Visual second most common: occur in conjunction with auditory. Negative symptoms: symptoms that don"t exist but should we want more of these, lessoning on normal social and interpersonal behaviours, may also experience increased tolerance of pain. Withdrawal and inability to initiate and persist in goal-directed activity. Decreased reaction to stimulus with diminished interest and desire. Flattening or blunting in range of emotion expressed; inappropriate affect. Inability to experience pleasure in things that ordinarily are pleasurable. Concurrent experience of equally opposing feelings making it impossible to make a decision. Neurocognitive impairment: short- and long-term memory, vigilance or sustained attention, verbal fluency or the ability to generate new words, executive functioning: volition, planning, purposive action, self-monitoring behaviours.
