PSY 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Haloperidol, Chlorpromazine, Dyskinesia
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Hallucinations false sensory experiences: they are mostly visual or auditory. They see/ hear things that aren"t actually there. They are usually blobs in visual and in auditory they hear voices. If severe enough they can hear several conversation. Disorganized or catatonic behavior (if you lift up arm their arm wont fall like us and will stay up for hours) (cid:498)negative(cid:499) symptoms (absence of normal behaviors) Avolition (inability to engage in goal-directed activities) Psychotherapy can help manage stress for the patient. Antipsychotic medications are the best to treat the disease and family but it isn"t the best way to treat the disease. It won"t really help it make it any better. to have parkinson"s disease that reduces their movement and will have movement problems for the rest of their life: traditional antipsychotics (haldol, thorazine)- If taken for a long time they begin. Reduce dopamine activity: produce tardive dyskinesia)- treats delusions and hallucinations very well.
