01:830:340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Schizoaffective Disorder, Dyskinesia
26 Dec 2015
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Phases of schizophrenia: prodromal phase: obvious deterioration in functioning, change in personality. **most common symptoms in schizophrenia include changes in the way a person thinks, feels, and relates to other people and the outside environment** ***no specific set of symptoms characteristic of all schizophrenic patients but classes of symptoms include the following*** Positive symptoms abnormal functioning: hallucinations. Often include voices of commenting on patients behavior or giving instructions: delusional beliefs. Defend what they say even if they"re shown contradictory evidence. Experiences of people with schizophrenia are good resource for knowledge about delusions. Negative symptoms absence of normal functioning: affective and emotional disturbances. Diminished emotional expression (blunted effect) failure to show emotions/feelings: avolition and alogia. Anhedonia inability to experience pleasure, emotional deficit. Avolition indecisiveness, ambivalence, loss of will power, lack of will. Alogia poor thinking and bad speech, thought blocking. Patients have little to say and cannot maintain a train of thought.
