PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 42: Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Childhood Obesity, Dissociative Identity Disorder
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Many people believe that you go from one person to another person entirely. Most common hallucinations for these individuals are auditory. When something real takes a new form. An individual with schizophrenia finds out a family member dies and laughs or has no reaction at all. May be due to a breakdown in selective attention. Positive symptoms - presence of inappropriate behaviours. Negative symptoms - absence of appropriate behaviours. Schizophrenia affects nearly 1% of the world"s population. Chronic is slow developing with doubt in ever getting better. Can happen at any time in life, mostly due to trauma. Men: typically appear in late teens or early twenties. Women: typically appears in late twenties early thirties. Being born in the fall or winter makes you more susceptible to developing schizophrenia. Urban environments have a higher likelihood of schizophrenia. Associated with regulation of information coming into/leaving the brain. Hallucinations may be due to basal ganglia not inhibiting certain sensory information.
