Management and Organizational Studies 4410A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Synaptic Pruning, Neural Development, Etiology

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 4410A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

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Psychotic disorders: psychotic disorders unusual thinking, distorted perceptions, and odd behaviour, out of touch with reality, unable to think in a logical or coherent manner, talking or mumbling to their self, psychosis severe mental condition characterized by a loss of contact with reality, delusion false belief (ex. Seeing cartoon characters when they aren"t there: having delusions or hallucination alone doesn"t mean the person has a psychotic disorder, these symptoms can occur in other psychological disorders bipolar, depression, ptsd, substance abuse, autism, ocd ect, these symptoms can also occur in people with physical illnesses brain tumors, neurocognitive disorder from alzheimer"s, parkinson"s, after any physical damage to brain, or exposure to toxins, these symptoms can occur with no psychological disorder brief or limited (2 12% of adults, difference is that people with a psychotic disorder hear voices as negative and are not in control.