PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Assertive Community Treatment, Tardive Dyskinesia, Frontal Lobe
11 Dec 2016
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Psychotic disorder characterized by disturbance in thought, emotion and behaviour. Disorder thinking ideas not logically related, faulty perception, flat/inappropriate affect and bizarre disturbance in motor activity. More common in men, get it earlier than women. Begin with acute symptom (positive symptoms) followed by negative symptoms (cycle: never go back to premorbid functioning gets worse and worse (step-wise deterioration) Often hospitalized suicide (driven by hallucination/delusion) Often have chronic disability can"t function in normal society. 50% chances of comorbidity personality disorder, substance abuse (help control symptom), anxiety disorder, social phobia (due to paranoid delusion) Milder onset, better premorbid function (cognitive reserve) = better remission. A lot of variability in symptoms no one common symptom. Symptoms added to our personality we don"t expect them to be part of our behaviour. Disorganized speech (thought disorder) thoughts are disorganized, not connected, digress/derailed. Stolen thoughts: believe people are stealing their thought.
