PSYCH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 61: Catatonia, Twin, Bipolar Disorder

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 1100
• Professor: Brian Siefke

Document Summary

Among the various mental disorders, bipolar disorder has the highest rate of heritability, with concordance from 40% to 70% for identical twins and. Hostile and critical family situations: schizophrenia losing the grasp on reality. Universal symptoms: profound disruption of basic psychological processes; a distorted perception of reality; altered or blunted emotion; and disturbances in thought, motivation, and behavior. Delusion- patently false belief system, often bizarre and grandiose, that is maintained in spite of its irrationality. An individual with schizophrenia may believe that he or she is jesus christ, napoleon, joan of arc, or some other famous person) Hallucination- a false perceptual experience that has a compelling sense of being real despite the absence of external stimulation. Schizophrenic hallucinations are often auditory--for example, hearing voices that no one else can hear. Disorganized speech- a severe disruption of verbal communication in which ideas shift rapidly and incoherently from one to another unrelated topic.