PSYC 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Emil Kraepelin, Eugen Bleuler, Frontal Lobe
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What is schizophrenia: 1800"s, in 1878 emil kraepelin combined various mental disorders into a single disease entity which he called dementia praecox, or. Dementia of early onset reflecting a decline of cognitive processes or premature deterioration of the mind : in 1911 eugen bleuler introduced the term schizophrenia in. Positive symptoms: behaviors that are present that should be absent: disorganized behavior or excessively agitated behavior, the opposite extreme excessive immobility is called catatonic behavior. Negative symptoms - symptoms characterized by the absence of behaviors that are normally present: flattened emotional response (flat affect, poverty of speech (alogia, lack of desire or motivation (avolition, inability to experience pleasure (anhedonia, social withdrawal. What causes schizophrenia: genetic factors 1 in 10 odds if parent or siblings have disorder, Schizophrenia may be caused by abnormalities in the development of the nervous system during the prenatal (before birth) and/or neonatal (newborn) period.
