PSYB32H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Aversion Therapy, Etiology, Schizotypal Personality Disorder
13 Dec 2011
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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. Delusions: thinking that others are plotting against you, delusions: beliefs held contrary to reality, are common positive symptoms, persecutory delusions are found in 65% of them, they may think their thoughts are beings stolen from them or are being. 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.
