PSYB65H3 Lecture Notes - Tuberculosis, Dont, Tangled
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Psychiatric & degenerative diseases psychiatric biochemical, born with probability of getting disease degenerative disease alzheimer"s global damage. ^ both are problems of cells, not lobe. Symptoms: delusions, (auditory) hallucinations, lose touch with reality. Patients often don"t like to take their meds b/c the meds are strong depressants. Schizos do show reduced performance: in frontal lobe function, in verbal and non-verbal memory. But its hard to know if effect u get in memory problems are caused by meds. Schizos also have lighter brains and larger ventricles. Lighter brains could be caused by reduced synapses from reduced life experience or again from years on strong meds. Freudian persp. thought it used to be thought to be caused by domineering mother, absent father, etc. While it is 1% of general pop, it is 10-15% of patient" parents, siblings or children. But psychologists argued that could just be because environment is also shared .
