PY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Psychogenic Amnesia, Echolalia
29 Aug 2016
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Lost time, lack of awareness, coping with trauma. Causes psychosis (disconnect from reality), not did. Excesses of deficits (not good or bad) Delusions: beliefs from false inferences about reality. Loosening of associations: speaking shifts or word salad. Social withdrawal, apathy, flat affect, slow speech and movement, and low activity. May be two disorders with high comorbidity. Dna mutations, enlarged ventricles, brain and neurotransmitters. First emerges most often in teens or early twenties. Extreme or pathological levels of big-five personality traits. Emotional instability and manipulation, fear of abandonment, risk, suicidal gestures, self-mutilation. Catchall for those with socially undesirable behaviors. Low arousal and amygdala function (reduced response to punishment) Low ses, family dysfunction, and childhood abuse. Some disorders are first diagnosed in infancy, childhood, or adolescence. Must be considered within the context of normal childhood development. Impaired social skills from deficits in communication and restricted interests. Increase in cases in 80"s and 90"s from increased awareness and diagnoses (not vaccines)
