BI308 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Parvalbumin, Psychomotor Retardation, Tyrosine
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Stahl chapter 4 notes psychosis and schizophrenia. Psychosis is a syndrome mixture of symptoms. Includes symptoms like; disorganized speech, disorganized behaviour, and gross distortions in reality. Psychotic disorders have psychotic symptoms as their defining features. Perceptual distortions: associated with any type of psychosis, auditory in nature (constant chatter in background) nonspecific or specific, sometimes visual and olfactory delusions, reporting that things they are familiar with have changed in some way messages. Motor disturbances: odd physical changes (posture changes); sit/stand in weird/look painful positions, giggle in weird situations (ex. Funeral: constant tapping or moving around, mumbling and talking to oneself. Patient has paranoid projections (people spying on you), hostile belligerence (verbal expressions of hostility, irritable) and grandiose expansiveness (think you possess special powers getting specific demands from someone ex. Patient has conceptual disorganization (giving irrelevant answers, repeating certain words or phrases), disorientation (not knowing where one is, or their own age), excitement (expressing feelings without restraint, hurried speech: depressive psychosis.
