PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Brain Damage, Antihistamine, Insulin
1 Feb 2017
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Dsm-5 psychotic disorders: schizophrenia (duration 6 months +, schizophreniform disorders (1 to 6 months, brief psychotic disorder (1 day to 1 month, schizoaffective disorder, delusional disorder (delusions only) catatonia. Schizophrenia: must have 2+ of the following: delusions* Positive symptoms: excesses of thought and behaviour, 50-70% of people with schizophrenia have delusions or hallucinations, examples: Delusions: beliefs held contrary to reality delusions of grandeur. Thought broadcasting - thinking that people can read their thoughts. Hallucinations: sensory experiences in the absence of stimulation from the environment. Often people commenting on behaviour, own thoughts spoken by another voice, voices arguing. One of them must be to do with delusions or disorganized speech the way it presents can be very different person to person we all have these thoughts time to time. But these have a higher degree of bizarreness and conviction about their delusions. Problems organizing and communicating ideas: incoherence, loose associations tangential thinking, disorganized behaviour catatonia to agitation, inappropriate affect.
