PSYB32H3 Final: PSYB32 - Final Exam Notes.doc

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYB32H3
• Professor: Konstantine Zakzanis

Document Summary

Clinical symptoms of schizophrenia: there are no essential symptoms out of the huge list so schizophrenics are heterogeneous. Hearing own thoughts spoken by another voice. Hearing a voice commenting on own behv. Negative symptoms: behavioural deficits that tend to endure beyond acute deficits, strong predictor of poor quality of life, associated with earlier onset brain damage (enlarged ventricles) and progressive loss of cog skills (iq decline) Other symptoms that are neither positive or negative: catatonia: motor abnormalities like gesturing repeatedly, flailing limbs, or catatonic immobility: maintaining an unusual posture for extended amounts of time. These people may also have waxy flexibility where they can be moved into different positions. Inappropriate affect: emotional responses that are out of context, shifting rapidly in emotions for no discernible reason: both of these symptoms are very rare but also fairly unique to ~ Schizophrenia : bleuler believed that the common aspect of schizophrenics was the breaking of associative threads in words and thoughts.