PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Reduced Affect Display, Catatonia, Schizophrenia

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

Delusions: grandiose (something like i"m pregnant by god or i"m a star; very big delusions of being greater than you actually are) or persecutory (paranoid believes like someone is out to get you) Loose associations (or poverty of speech they tend to be mute and talk a lot: hallucinations and disturbed behaviour: Example: hearing voices, speaking to imaginary people. Agitation or catatonic stupor: disturbed emotions: Example: laughing inappropriately, blunted, flat affect; inappropriate emotions at a given situation: deterioration in functions: Example: neglect in person hygiene, social withdrawal: affect from the antiphsychotic that make the patients have tremors and it beco. Most mental hospitals shut down and the people from those hospitals ended up on the. 500 000 mentally ill people in prisons streets. Drugs that increase dopamine produce symptoms similar to schizophrenia: drug binds to dopamine receptors. Anti-psychotic drugs that decrease dopamine activity lessen schizophrenia. Drug binds to the dopamine receptors to lessen dopamine so they can chill out.