PSY240H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Haloperidol, Psychomotor Agitation, Prefrontal Cortex
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This lecture is about the dsm category called: schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic. Disorders (which includes all the disorder today as well as schizotypal pd which is next week) All psychotic disorders share features related to distortion of reality and range in severity. Schizophrenia is a disorder on the severe end of psychotic disorders. Schizophrenia and related disorders" symptoms can be categorized as one of three things: Positive symptoms (something is added that wasn"t previously occurring such as delusions or hallucinations), negative symptoms (decreased ability to perform or experience things), In general, diagnosis of psychotic symptoms involves properly assessing and determining: the presence of the possible symptoms listed above, the time course, and whether or not mood symptoms/episodes are present. Delusions are false beliefs held with conviction despite firm counter-evidence or lack of logical support. The delusions usually have an egocentric bias (i"m too good) or have to do with something external (people are out to get me).
