Psychology 2030A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Synaptic Pruning, Brief Psychotic Disorder, Etiology

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

Document Summary

The things that schizophrenics see that normal people don"t. Delusions (persecutory and of in uence [someone is reading my mind]) Somatic (belief that the body is rotting away or things are crawling on the body) No logical link from one idea to another. Waxy = move it somewhere and it stays (body parts) until moved again. Things that schizophrenics don"t have that we have. Behaviours, emotions or thought processes that are absent. Psychomotor retardation (slow speech, slow mental processes = slow physical processes) Signi cant human toll on the individual and the family (quality of life) Higher risk of being victims and perpetrators of violence. Prodromal phase (social withdrawal and poor hygiene for gradual onset) Residual phase (psychotic symptoms are no longer present but negative symptoms still remain) Estrogen levels have a strong impact on brain development. Lose more cortical gray matter over 5 years. Sudden onset of psychotic symptoms - last less than a month.