PSY396H1 Lecture Notes - Jerky, Dopamine Receptor D2, Partial Agonist
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Psychosis and schizophrenia most common disorder with psychosis part of diagnoses. Psych is set of or syndrome and can be part of many disorders. What it is is set of symptoms that involve delusions and hallucination. Can be defiing feature of disorder like shcizop or drug induced. Disorganized speech and thought and behavior irregularities. Appear as a symptom of sch or induced by drugs. Can induce pyshosis after prolonged use or acute after high dose. Drugs change function of dop release in nuc acumbens. State of psychosis may relate to same da dys in nuc accumbens. Pyshcosis can appear as an associative feature with alz or major depression pysh can appear and not defining feature it is ass feat. Two most sig symptoms is hallacuation and delusion. Not affect large number of people say depression put 1 percent sig still and schizophrenia is debilitating disease. Lose most functions to live in todays society.
