HSCI 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Fluphenazine, Olanzapine, Quetiapine
1 Dec 2016
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Chapter 11: antipsychotic drugs: summarize the disorder schizophrenia, the manifestations and prevalence of the disease, and the current supporting physiological theory for the disease. Schizophrenia: mental disorder of breakdown of thought process and by poor emotional response disorganized speech/thinking, and social/occupational dysfunction: manifests as auditory hallucinations, paranoid/bizarre delusions, over 2. 2 million people have it (cid:523)that(cid:495)s a lot of people!! (cid:524) Affects men and women equally: usually begins in teen years/early adulthood, tends to begin later in life for females and is more mild. Positive symptoms: more overt symptoms like delusions and hallucinations not: usually lose touch with reality but is a range of severity seen in healthy people. Negative symptoms: less outgoing symptoms like flat affect, lack of interest, no pleasure, antisocial: more of an absence of normal things, what is the mechanism of action of all currently available antipsychotic drugs that alleviate symptoms of schizophrenia.
