PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Divergent Thinking, Eugen Bleuler, Tardive Dyskinesia

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

Eugen bleuler 1857-1939: swiss psychiatrist who named the disorder in 1908, schiz for split , phren for mind , schizophrenia characterized by some disruption in normal integration of abc"s. Schizophrenia symptoms: inappropriate emotions: odd and socially inappropriate responses such as looking bored or amused while hearing of a death, flat affect: facial/body expression is flat with no visible emotional content. Impaired perception of emotions, including not reading others" intentions and feelings. If so, we would see more similar schizophrenia risk shared between identical twins than fraternal twins (graph below). Ses cause: prevalence in lower class is double middle class, the upper class is half the middle class. Pharmacological treatment: antipsychotics, chlorpromazine (cpz) developed in france in 1951 as an antihistamine, bind to dopamine receptors, alleviates positive symptoms, side-effects include parkinson-like effects and tardive dyskinesia, has been described as the single greatest advance in psychiatric care . Impact if cpz: average stay was over a year, until they introduced cpz.