PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Avolition, Prevalence, Cerea

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2AP3
• Professor: Geoffrey Hall

Document Summary

Blunted affect 82% lomoar cpsd| 2151316: lack of emotional responses, don"t have highs or lows don"t show emotional responses. Asociality 79: withdrawal from social encounters, lack of contact/interest in friends, family, etc. Autism 72: does not mean asd it means self-focussed, narrow-focused interest. Apathy 60: lack of interest in anything. Suspiciousness 51: in dsm-4, there were sub-types of schizophrenia listed one was paranoid schizophrenia, doesn"t exist anymore. Positive symptoms: disturbance, excess of normal function (means an excess of) associated with positive outcome with treatment, hallucinations, delusions. Negative symptoms: a loss or diminution of normal function alogia: poverty of speech, flat affect, anhedonia asociality avolition. One episode, full remission: 25% of cases. Episodic, full remission: 20% of cases: similar to depressive disorder. Chronic deterioration: 15% of cases: symptoms are continuously present and get worse and worse throughout life. Point prevalence: us and canada: 50-70/10,000 just under 1% Lifetime prevalence: us and canada: 100-190/10,000 o us and canada: 150/10,000, 1-2%