PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Cerebrospinal Fluid, Ventricular System, Disorganized Schizophrenia
15 Jun 2013
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Characterized primarily by positive symptoms, prognosis is better. Disorganized schizophrenia: incoherence, flat affect, fragmentary delusions, avolition thought and expression is very disturbed and difficult to understand. May have delusions but are not organized around a single theme, may change, fragmentary. Most debilitating and most disturbed of all the subtyped. Psychomotor disturbance; stereotypes: stupor or excitement, stereotyped movement or posture patterns. Uncategorizeable psychotic symptoms: involves or reflects a distancing of the individual from reality, can involve not knowing where they are, delusions, hallucinations residual schizophrenia. Has a prognosis that is not all that bad. One episode, full remission: 25% of cases. Episodic (still show symptomatology in between episodes), partial remission: Episodic (fine in between episodes), full remission: 20% of cases. U. s. & canada: 50-70/10,000 at any one moment lifetime prevalence: Symptoms fairly early, diagnosis does not come for few more years. Mother aloof, rejecting, overprotective or overtly hostile. Parent asks for closeness, but rejects it.
