PS280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Centre For Addiction And Mental Health, Eugen Bleuler, Social Class
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Introduction to schizophrenia: first person accounts different, first episode, living with schizophrenia, nobel prize winner, camh, history of schizophrenia, kraepelin. Schizophrenia : prevalence, <1, age of onset, late teens to mid 30s, gender difference, comorbidity, mortality, cost. Nature of schizophrenia: active phase symptoms, positive symptoms, disorganized symptoms, negative symptoms, delusions, false beliefs. February 26th & 28th, 2018: incoherent, disorganized behaviour, lack of goal directed behaviour, varied symptoms, catatonic symptoms, negative symptoms, flat affect, avolition, alogia, anhedonia, asociality, other symptoms, inappropriate affect, low mood, sleep, appetite, cognitive deficits. Diagnosis of schizophrenia: loose associations, creating new words, perseveration, 2 or more: Content: thought broadcasting, thought insertion, thought withdrawal, delusions of being controlled, delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, grossly disorganized or catatonic behaviour, negative symptoms, social/occupational dysfunction, duration of disturbance: 6 months or more. Schizophrenia subtypes dsm-iv: paranoid, disorganized, catatonic. February 26th & 28th, 2018: undifferentiated, residual.
