PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Amygdala, Prefrontal Cortex, Frontal Lobe

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

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Understand how different neurotransmitters affect individuals with schizophrenia. Understand the genetic and environmental contributions to schizophrenia. Symptoms and types of schizophrenia schizophrenia: brain disease that causes the person to experience signi cant breaks from reality, a lack of integration of thoughts and emotions, and problems with attention and memory. !1 source: an introduction to psychological science (krause et al. ) Individuals with schizophrenia experience several problems with cognitive functioning: prefrontal cortex shows signi cant neurological decline in those with schizophrenia. Social interaction is often very dif cult, struggle to reason through a social situation. Social withdrawal and isolation is a common consequence of schizophrenia. Studies show that genes contribute to schizophrenia (cannot identify speci c ones) Cannot be diagnosed by testing for a single gene. People with schizophrenia have ventricular spaces that are larger than people without. Schizophrenics have lower levels of activity in their frontal lobe during resting state. Tend to have smaller amygdala and hippocampal regions.