Psychology 2310A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Olanzapine, Clozapine, Haloperidol
6 Dec 2013
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Most patients unable to care for themselves (can"t hold down jobs and even basic care like hygiene, cooking) 10-20% of homeless people living on the streets have schizophrenia. 300,000 canadians - 1 / 12 hospital beds. Men and women at equal risk, but seems to strike men years earlier and maybe more severely. Evidence that it only developed in the last couple hundred years. This is based on when you look back on writings over the centuries, there are descriptions of people with mental illnesses; can clearly see those with depression, mania but no descriptions with the characteristics of schizophrenia. Could of existed but just wasn"t written about, or could of risen due to industrialization. Emil kraepelin called schizophrenia dementia praecox was the first name for schizophrenia ( early onset senility ) Saw it as a deterioration of brain functioning. Saw it as an organic condition, and that is was irreversible. Coined the term schizophrenia (literally means split mind )
