PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Butyrophenone, Asociality, Circumstantial Speech

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYB32H3
• Professor: Konstantine Zakzanis

Document Summary

Psychotic disorder characterized by major disturbances in thought, emotion, and behaviour. Disordered thinking in which ideas are not logically related, faulty perception and attention, At or inappropriate a ect, and bizarre disturbances in motor activity. Cognitive impairment is the biggest predictor of disability in schizophrenics. Severe because it really a ects the people around you; sometimes people don"t have anyone around them and lots of homeless people are like these kinds of schizophrenic patients. Age of onset late adolescence, early adulthood; a little earlier for men than women and more common in males; this makes it crippling because this is when things start happening in your life - relationships, university, etc. No single answer as to what causes schizophrenia. Catatonia rare; thought of as motor abnormality but there are active cognitive processes that relate in this behaviour. Course prodromal, acute, residual (negative symptoms usually), acute, residual and those.