CLP-4143 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Antipsychotic, Dopamine Antagonist, Schizophreniform Disorder
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Negative symptoms: taking typical things away: affective flattening: reduction or absence of emotional expression, alogia: reduction or absence of speech, avolition: lack of persistence or initiation in goal directed activities. N. symptoms less obvious, but have more impairment. After negative symptoms then there is + symptoms and that is when schizophrenia is diagnosed. Disorganized symptoms: disorganized thought and speech: loosening of associations or derailment, neologisms, and word salad, disorganized behavior: unpredictable and disorganized triggered behavior. Echolia: responding, but not self-generated or incoherent: catatonia: group of disorganized behaviors that reflect extreme lack of responsiveness. Catatonic excitement: wild agitation that is difficult to subdue. Other features associated with schizophrenia: cognitive deficits. Inappropriate effect: laughing at something for no reason to laugh: anhedonia: lack of pleasure from typically pleasurable activities. Psychotic spectrum: delusional disorders: only delusions, brief psychotic: 1 of the symptoms for 1-30 days, schizophreniform: symptoms for 1-6 months, schizophrenia: symptoms greater than a month, schizoaffective plus mood episodes.
