PSYB32H3 Chapter 11: Chapter 11 notes-Schizophrenia
4 Dec 2016
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Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder characterized by major disturbances in thought, emotion, and behaviour: disorders thinking in which ideas aren"t logically related, faulty perception and attention, flat or inappropriate affect, and bizarre disturbances in motor activity. Withdraw from other people and reality, often into fantasy life and hallucinations. Prevalence of all psychotic disorder exceeds 3%, prevalence of schizophrenia 0. 87% Prevalence rates of symptoms such as auditory and visual hallucinations are higher among people from african nations, southern india has goof recovery rates, prevalence high in canada (because of immigration rates and canada high latitude) Sometimes in childhood, but usually appears in late adolescence or early adulthood. Typically have a number of acute episodes of their symptoms. Between episodes, they often have less sever but very deliberating symptoms. Most treated in community, hospitalization sometimes necessary. Accounts for 30. 9% of hospitalization in psychiatric hospitals.
