PSYB65H3 Lecture Notes - Scrapie, Phenothiazine, Tangled
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Oct 24 lecture 6 psychiatric disorders. 50 questions, 25 on lecture, 25 textbook all mc (read textbook) All about hallucinations and delusions: hallucinations. Weird things happening to them : delusions belief in something. Old ppl having sex under window hears that. Stay away from electrical socket getting zapped. Age of onset early adulthood til 30 ish. Has many types of schizophrenia complicated: paranoid, some other stuff. Not just 1 gene involved in schizophrenia really messy : about 5 genes (some higher, some lower) Neuropsychological problems: poor performance in frontal lobe tasks, poor verbal and nonverbal memory, dopamine levels weird, most neuropsych test show that they are normal. Medications: makes time tired and not themselves fatigue, like tranquilizers -> does affect brain. Prevalent (not like 1 out of 1 million: members of immediate family (from the 1% person) Dizygotic not identical: 10-15% other twin is schizophrenic. Calming down to calm down schizophrenia: most effective drugs are dopamine antagonists, most used drugs:
