PHED-4546EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography, Dementia Praecox, Schizophrenia
28 Dec 2019
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Section 8 schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. Psychosis: broad term referring to hallucinations and/or delusions. Schizophrenia: a type of psychosis with distributed thought, language and behaviour. Not easy to point to one thing that makes a person schizophrenic. Actually a number of behaviours or symptoms that are not always common to other sufferers; thus quite heterogeneous. In any case certain fundamental disturbances, even though they cannot for the most part be regarded as characteristic, yet return frequently in the same form, but in the most diverse combinations . Originates from greek words for split (skhizein) and mind (phren: reflects bleuler"s (1908) belief that underlying all the unusual behaviours was an. Inspired the common but incorrect use of the term schizophrenia to mean split or multiple personality. Usually distinguish between positive and negative symptoms. ) we should expect wernicke"s area (language comprehension). Are in contrast to the contrast to the active presentations that characterize the positive symptoms of schizophrenia.
