PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Bipolar Disorder, Reduced Affect Display, Temporal Lobe

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

Document Summary

Hallucinations: perceptions that occur in the absence of a physical stimulus, or that are distorted. Deterioration of routine functioning (work, social, personal care). Bizarre false beliefs that cannot be explained to them. People are trying to control their thoughts, they think, their thoughts get distorted. Blunting is not seeing any emotion, may be happy about death and may go back and forth with emotion. Become suspicious of social network, institutions, unknown persons/entities. No two individuals have the same symptoms. Don"t exactly fit into these three perfectly but this is general. Go from motionless (rigid for hours at a time with physically uncomfortable position) (minor resistance to moving them) to hyperactive. Difficulty in expressing thoughts and taking care of themselves (may feel angry but not express) Behavioural deficits: blunted affect, social withdrawal, impaired attention, poverty of speech. Behavioural excesses or peculiarities: delusions, hallucinations, bizarre behaviour, chaotic thoughts. Better response to treatment: most patients exhibit both; differ in degree only.