PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Flu Season, Schizophrenia, Catatonia
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Schizophrenic disorders: a group of psychological disorders involving distorions of thought, percepion and emoion; bizarre behaviour; and social withdrawal. Means split mind" but does not involve muliple personaliies. More people are insituionalized with schizophrenia than any other disorder. Posiive symptoms: more acive symptoms that relect an excess or distorion of normal thinking or behavior, including hallucinaions (false sensory percepions, typically auditory) and delusions (false beliefs of persecuion, control and grandeur) Negaive symptoms refer to things that have been removed: there are deicits or losses in emoion, speech, energy level, social acivity, and even basic drives such as hunger. Disorganized symptoms include disorganized speech, disorganized behavior, and inappropriate emoion: word salad . Schizophrenia: the presence, most of the ime during a one-month period, of at least two of the following symptoms: hallucinaions, delusions, disorganized speech, disorganized or catatonic behavior, any negaive symptoms (such as loss of emoion)
