PSYC 2030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Atypical Antipsychotic, Dsm-5, Family Therapy
23 Jan 2018
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Positive: symptoms that are present in those with s, but not in normal people. Negative: symptoms that are absent or shown less in people with s, that should be present. Delusions: grandeur: when the person thinks they are particularly important (that they could fly, that they are god etc, paranoid, reference, control: they feel as though an external force is controlling them. Hallucinations: auditory (are the most common, visual, can be tactile or olfactory, gustatory. Poverty of speech (alogia: speak very little or speak a lot but conveying little meaning. Blunted and flat affect (emotionless) (people with s don"t scan the correct areas of the fact to pick up on emotional cues) Loss of volition (reduced motivation, loss of motivation) Catatonia: extreme form: stupor, rigidity, posturing, excitement. Residual: a return to prodromal-like levels: of patients fully recover, continue to have some problems.
