Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Prenatal Development, Family Therapy, Antipsychotic

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

Document Summary

Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders (pp. 467- 500) Combination of symptoms (catatonia, hebephrenia, and paranoia) = dementia praecox. Focused on onset and outcomes: bleuler. Introduced the term schizophrenia or associative splitting of the mind or personality . Cognitive impairment: many of kraepeling and bleulers ideas are still with us. Brain scans (broca"s area, not wernicke"s) = misinterpretation of own inner speech as that from someone else. Schizophrenia: the disorganized symptom cluster (pp. 472- 473: the disorganized symptoms, disorganized speech. Cognitive slippage illogical and incoherent speech. Tangentiality going off on a tangent and not answering a question directly. Loose associations or derailment talking conversation in unrelated direction: disorganized affect. Inappropriate emotional behaviour (e. g. , crying when one should be laughing: disorganixed behaviour. A variety of unusual behaviours: catatonia spectrum from wild agitation, waxy flexibility, to complete immobility. Causes of schizophrenia: findings from genetic research (pp. Still inconclusive: likely to involve multiple genes (quantitative trait loci model). Causes of schizophrenia: neurotransmitter influences (pp.