PSYA02H3 Chapter 13: PSYA02H3 MODULE 13.4 CHAPTER 13.docx

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Steve Joordens

Document Summary

Many different types of schizophrenia such as the following: paranoid schizophrenia: symptoms include delusional beliefs that one is being followed, watched, or persecuted, and may also include delusions of grandeur, disorganized schizophrenia: symptoms include thoughts, speech, behavior, and emotion that are poorly integrated and incoherent. Individuals may also exhibit repetitive, purposeless movements: undifferentiated schizophrenia: this category includes individuals who show a combination of symptoms from more than one type of schizophrenia, residual schizophrenia: this category reflects individuals who show some symptoms of schizophrenia but are either in transition to a full blown episode or in remission. Brains also function differently: shown to have lower level of activity in frontal lobes, those who"ve long history with the disorder show lower levels of activity found in frontal lobes when they"re resting or when frontal lobes activated during cognitive tasks, reduced activity in amygdala and hippocampus.