PSYB32H3 Chapter 11: chapter 11
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Its own of the most severe psychopathologies: prevalence of 1% Clinical symptoms of schizophrenia: disturbances in several major areas thought, perceptions and attention, motor behaviour; affect or emotions and life functioning, there is a lot of heterogeneity. Positive symptoms: positive symptoms: comprise excesses or distortions, such as disorganized speech, hallucinations and delusions, an acute episode of schizophrenia. It involve the presence of a behaviour that is not apparent in most people. Avolition: apathy/avolition: lack of energy and seeming absence of interest or inability to persist in what are usually routine activities. Inattentive to grooming and personal hygiene: difficulty persistent at work, school or household chores. Alogia: a negative thought disorder, poverty of speech, sheer amount of speech is greatly reduced, poverty in content of speech, vague and repetitive speech. Anhedonia: an inability to experience pleasure, they are aware of it.
