PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Socalled, Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome, Dyskinesia
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Schizophrenia: psychotic disorder characterized by major disturbance in thought, emotion, & behaviour. Disordered thinking in which ideas are not logically related. They withdraw from people and reality, often into a fantasy life of delusions and hallucinations. Asian populations have the lowest prevalence rates for schizophrenia. Begins in childhood, but appears in late adolescence or early adulthood, somewhat earlier for men than woman. Ptsd is highly prevalent and underdiagnosed among military veterans with schizophrenia. Symptoms of schizophrenia involve disturbances in several major areas: People with schizophrenia can differ from each other more than do people with other disorders. Evidence found it is hard to find specific traits or characteristics that are shared by all people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Positive symptoms- comprise excesses or distortions (disorganized speech, hallucinations, and delusions), they are what define an acute episode of schizophrenia. The presence of too much of a behaviour that is not apparent in most people.
