PSYCH 380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Catatonia
20 Apr 2016
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Psychosis is a state defined by a loss of contact with reality: the ability to perceive and respond to the environment is significantly disturbed, symptoms may include hallucinations (false sensory perceptions) and/or functioning is impaired delusions (false beliefs) Psychosis may be substance-induced or caused by brain injury, but most psychoses appear in the form of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia affects approximately 1 in 100 people in the world: about 2. 5 million americans currently have the disorder. The financial and emotional costs are enormous: sufferers have an increased risk of suicide and physical often fatal illness. Checklist: for 1 month, individual displays two or more of the following symptoms much of the time.
