PSY 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Dopamine Receptor D2, Eugen Bleuler, Dopamine Antagonist

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 325
• Professor: Janice Kuo

Document Summary

Lecture 10 - schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders. German psychiatrist, first person to distinguish the symptoms: called it dementia praecox. Catatonia (motor deficit, severe motor agitation, severe slowing of movement) Associative splitting or breaking of associative threads. Positive symptom: access of something you don"t want. Odd beliefs (odd belief is atypical belief grounded in reality, possibly culturally influenced) Disorganised symptoms (speech: tangentially (going off on tangent), word salad (stinging a bunch of words together that overall don"t make sense, deficits in working memory (difficulties with reasoning and communication, men have more severe deficits in language. Maybe women have greater bilateral (both sides) use of brain (compensate for deficit on one side: inappropriate affect (laughing at funeral, disorganized behaviour (unusual displays, possibly hording, catatonic immobility. Negative symptoms: lack of something you do want. Avolation (inability to complete at common tasks, ex: doing laundry) Alogia (severe reduction or complete absence of speech) Anhedonia (inability to feel pleasure in activities)