PSYC62H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Firstline, Hyperprolactinaemia, Evernote
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Chapter 15 - antipsychotic drugs schizophrenia - severe, life-long mental illness consisting of disturbed thought process and poor emotional responsiveness positive symptoms - addition of abnormal behaviours such as hallucinations, delusions, and thoughts of persecution to diagnosis of schizophrenia negative symptoms - reduction of normal behaviours such as reduced emotional responsiveness, social withdrawal, reduced movement, and lack of motivation. 1/3 of patients moderate to severe deficits in cognitive functioning memory, attention, executive functioning sensory-gating deficit - diminished capacity to filter out unimportant stimuli in his or her environment paying attention to these unimportant stimuli leads to misconceptions about the environment assessment uses prepulse inhibition poor functional outcomes - problems with inclusion into a community, behaving normally first diagnosis occurs in late teens, early 20s occurs equally in males and females males exhibit symptoms earlier and more severely individuals born in the winter are more prevalent depression rates are high shorter lifespan of 16-18 years schizophrenia has genetic basis.