PSYC 211 Chapter Notes -Haloperidol, Endorphins, Morphine
11 Mar 2013
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The word means split mind but it does not imply a split or multiple personality. Term invented by eugen bleuler (1911/1950), intended it to refer to a break in reality with reality cause by disorganization of the various functions of the mind, such that thoughts and feelings no longer worked together normally. Negative symptoms (absent of behaviours that that are normally present) Cognitive symptoms (closely related to negative symptoms & can be produced by abnormalities in. *negative and cognitive symptoms are not speci c to schizophrenia; they are seen in many neurological disorders that involve brain damage especially to the frontal lobe. Negative symptoms are the rst to appear followed by cognitive symptoms. According to both adoption studies (kety et al. , 1968, 1994) and twin studies (gottesman and shields, 1982; tsuang, gilbertson, & faraone, 1991). In children with 2 schizophrenic parents, less than 50% meaning that several genes are involved or that having a.
