PSY 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Stimulant Psychosis, Positive Systems, Lateral Ventricles
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Different categories have different underlying neural pathways. Traditional antipsychotics does a good job on positive systems, nothing for negative symptoms. New antipsychotics, tries to do both symptoms. Positive symptoms-psychosis: obvious, see in the patient with schizophrenia that we don"t see in a typically functioning person, delusions. Think medical professionals planting tech in their heads: hallucinations. Most patients in us experience accusatory critical voices. In some cultures hallucinations viewed as positive: disorganized thought. Drugs we use on schizophrenia really impact motor system. Negative symptoms: things that are absent. We expect to see them but they are missing: socially related, drop in social behavior, emotional disturbance. Really angry at people and you can"t tell what. Might strike out of threatened: social withdrawal. Pull away from social support and completely push back from it. Stimulant psychosis can be confused with schizophrenia: paranoia, can strike out.
