PSYB32H3 Chapter : PSYB32 Ch 11
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Schizophrenia, a psychotic disorder characterized by major disturbances in thought, emotion and bhvr: disordered thinking in which ideas are not logically related, faulty perception and attention, flat or inappropriate affect, and bizarre disturbances in motor activity. > schizophrenics withdraw f/ ppl and reality often into fantasy life of delusions and hallucinations. Comorbid substance abuse is a problem for schizophrenics. Schizophrenics have disturbed thought, perception, attention, motor bhvr, affect/emotion, and life functioning. Positive symptoms, comprise excesses or distortions, such as disorganized speech, hallucinations, and delusions (acute episodes) they are the presence of too much of a bhvr that s not apparent in most ppl. Thought disorder/disorganized speech, refers to problems in organizing ideas and in speaking so that a listener can understand. > incoherence, the patient makes repeated references to central ideas, the images and fragments of thought are not connected; it s difficult to understand them.
