PSY 034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Schizoaffective Disorder, Delusional Disorder, Frontal Lobe

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 034
• Professor: Del Rio

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Premorbid symptoms: occur in childhood but not recognized. Prodromal stage: first two years of the disorder, mostly negative symptoms, not obvious, looks like depression. Positive symptoms: hallucination, delusional thinking, disorganized speech and behavior: dress in strange ways, talk to themselves, word-salad, not tangential. Catatonia: completely frozen, keep one position can"t move. Don"t see a lot because of medication can help. What are the brain structures and neurotransmitter systems that are considered typically affected in people with schizophrenia: smaller thalamus, overactive amygdala, dendrites spines. Schizophreniaform disorder: don"t last long than 6 months. Schizoaffective disorder: schizo symptoms with either depression/bipolar. Late adolescents, 16 . early 20s for women. Other problems with the brain (frontal lobe) Families of people with schizophrenia and expressed emotion (ee: ee exacerbate the symptoms. Telling the child what should do, reactive, blame the child for the disorder. What are the side effects of 1st generation and 2nd generation neuroleptic medications? (textbook: basically same.