PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Thalamus, Executive Functions, Antipsychotic

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Dwayne Pare

Document Summary

A group of psychological disorder involving distortions of though, perception and motion; bizarre behavior and social withdrawal. Means split mind but doesn"t involve multiple personalities. Positive symptoms: more active symptoms that reflect an excess or distortion of normal thinking or behavior, hallucinations (typically auditory, delusions of persecution, control and grandeur. Negative symptoms: refers to things that have bben removed, there are deficits or losses in emotion, speech, energy level, social activity and even basic drives such as hunger. Disorganized symptoms: include disorganized speech, disorganize behavior, and inaapropraite emotion, word salad no connections between the spoken words, no meaning behind the sentences spoken. Catatonic: extreme movement symptoms ranging from excessive motor activity to posturing (immobility for long periods) Residual: there has been a past schizophrenic episode, but presently only some negative symptoms and no positive symptoms (hallucinations and delusions) Paranoid: organized cognition and emotion, but with hallucinations and delusions that are usually concerned with persecution.