PSYB65H3 Lecture Notes - Neurodegeneration, Lipofuscin, Tricyclic Antidepressant
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Lecture 6: psychiatric and degenerative disorders (chapter 2, 14) Hallucinations: commonly verbal, they hear people talking to them when nobody is there. Delusions: just thinking that people are plotting against you. For example: his sister thinks aliens will attack. Can phenomenal or paranoid in nature: can rarely lead to violent behaviour, extreme delusional ideas come to mind. Earlier: freud assumed schizophrenia was due to absent mother or fathers, etc. , but are not true: was the theory of cause for a long time for psychoanalyst. Lots of research has been done on the classic neuropsychology of schizophrenia on parts of the brain that don"t work well. Real issue here is the transmitter not neuropsychological. Other tests show that their brain is normal. Age of onset: 30 years old, the first 30 years if don"t have schizophrenia, then you"ll be fine: you usually become schizophrenia by 20s.
