PSYC 2490 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Avolition, Prodrome, Catatonia
23 Mar 2018
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Major features of schizophrenia: prominent features, delusions and disordered thought, hallucinations, hearing, seeing, smelling, feeling things that are not there, ex: a rotting monster hanging around their neck that is choking them and smelling, etc, flattened/inappropriate affect. Nature vs nurture: can have a genetic predisposition but depending on your environmental and other stressors can determine whether or not you develop schizophrenia, biological basis of schizophrenia, mz twins, offspring of two parents with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia: enduring psychosis that involves, failure to maintain integrated personality functioning. Impairment in functioning: continuous signs of the distubance persist for at least 6 months, at least one month of symptoms that meet criterion a. During these prodromal or residual periods, the signs of the disturbance may be manifested by only negative symptoms or by two or more symptoms listed in criterion. Stages of schizophrenia (refer to diagram above: prodromal phase, phase of deterioration, cognitive deficits, the person makes less and less sense.
