PSB-2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Antipsychotic, Movement Disorder, Thought Disorder
Document Summary
Disorder of psychological function that requires treatment. Genetics play a role in psychiatric disorders. Used because blood tests and brain scans can"t diagnose patients. People with similar symptoms can express different disorders. Breakdown of integration of emotion, thought, and action. Characterized by deteriorating ability to function in everyday life and two or more of the following. Dimished attention, executive function, working memory, cognitive flexability. Usually in response to a major emotional traumatic event. Gradual onset - usually around late adolescence. With age, psychotic episodes get longer and remissions get. Shizophrenia is not caused by domineering mothers or passive fathers. Inherit an increased risk for the disorder. Much of our understanding of schizophrenia is a consequence of the drugs that are able to treat it. Chlorpromazine: calms many agitated schizophrenics and activates many emotionally blunt schizophrenics. First receptor blocker to be identified, discovery changed pyschopharmacology.
