PSYC 3140 Lecture Notes - Arvid Carlsson, Extrapyramidal Symptoms, Mathematical Game
Document Summary
John nash: book and movie a beautiful mind , nobel prize in economics -1994, developed mathematical game theory 1949, age 21, later onset of schizophrenia, developed the game hex , princeton gave him an honorary title. Visual hallucinations are not very common in schizophrenia, unlike the movie depicted. Age of onset is generally late teens and early 20"s. Initially struggled in school, b average as undergrad: canadian, born in england. Professor at uofbc: nobel prize in chemistry, donated half of his prize to schizophrenia research, the other half to teaching women in high school sciences, his son had schizophrenia. Positive symptoms: things that are there but really shouldn"t be there: hallucinations. Voices: voices commenting or voices conversing: delusions. Such as paranoia: disorganized behaviour, disorganized thoughts and speech. Negative symptoms: things that aren"t there but should be there: affective flattening: monotone, alogia: not talking, says very little, avolition: no will-power. Not everyone with schizophrenia has auditory hallucinations.
