PSYC 235 Lecture Notes - Auditory Hallucination, Auditory Cortex, Thought Disorder

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 235
• Professor: Christopher Bowie

Document Summary

Avolition (inability to initiate and persist in activities) Inappropriate affect and disorganized behaviour (laughing at inappropriate times / catatonic immobility) Disorganized type (disruption in their speech and behaviour and show flat or inappropriate affect) Catatonic type (waxy flexibility / grimacing / mimic the words of others or the movements of others) Undifferentiated type (have major symptoms of schizophrenia but who do not meet the criteria types) Residual type (at least one episode of schizophrenia but who no longer manifest major symptoms) Schizophreniform disorder (experience the symptoms for a few months only, then disappears) Schizoaffective disorder (symptoms of schizophrenia and exhibit the characteristics of mood disorders) Delusional disorder (the imagined events could actually happen but aren"t, compared to imagined events that aren"t possible) Brief psychotic disorder (positive symptoms or disorganized speech or behaviour lasting 1 month or less) Shared psychotic disorder (an individual develops delusions simply as a result of a close relationship with a delusional individual)