BIO SCI 37 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Thought Disorder, Substance Abuse
28 May 2016
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Substance abuse can induce symptoms that seem like schizophrenia. Thought disorder- disorders of content and disorders of formal thought. Disorders of formal thought - ways of things are constructed in the brain is problematic-like a linguistic impairment. Catatonia is more rare; patients tend to put their body into a position that would otherwise be painful. Brain fails to recognize what is real and what is not. Positive symptoms are things that are added into your cognition. Negative symptoms show a lack of characteristics that should be present. Hallucinations are impairments in the senses that affect cognition. Schizophrenics do not distinguish the voices they hear; if they are coming from their ears or in their head- they seem like all the voices are coming from hearing them through their ears. To them, it s not a hallucination; it is real. Delusions are beliefs with strong conviction despite to the contrary. Thought disorder: speech is garbled, content of speech do not connect.
