PSYC 353 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Frontal Lobe, Thought Disorder, Temporal Lobe

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 353
• Professor: Blanchard

Document Summary

A disorder characterized by disturbances in thought, emotion, and behavior. Included disordered thinking, faulty perception and attention, a lack of emotional expressiveness or, at times, inappropriate expressions, and disturbances in movement and behavior, such as disheveled appearance. Symptoms include: positive symptoms, negative symptoms, and disorganized symptoms. Mostly, positive symptoms are experienced during acute episodes of schizophrenia. Ideas of reference incorporating unimportant events within a delusional framework and reading personal significance into the trivial activities of others. Hallucinations: sensory experiences in the absence of sensory stimulation from the environment: most common are auditory hallucinations (74% of schizophrenics have this symptom, many people with schizophrenia experience their hallucinations as frightening or annoying. Negative symptoms consist of behavioral deficits such as avolition, asociality, anhedonia, blunted affect, and alogia. The negative symptoms tend to endure well beyond acute episodes and have profound effects on the lives of people with schizophrenia.