PSYC 206 Study Guide - Final Guide: Chlorpromazine, Occipital Lobe, Substantia Nigra

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 206
• Professor: stevenbrauth

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Test 3: positive symptoms are the presence of thought processes that should not be there. This includes auditory hallucinations or voices, visual hallucinations, and other disorganized thinking methods. Very extreme thinking patterns that lack proper judgment. Negative symptoms of shciz: negative symptoms are described as behaviors or thought processes that should be present, but are not. This includes anhedonia or the inability to feel pleasure from normally pleasurable things. These people usually feel numb to the surrounding environment. These people also withdrawal from their social environments and become very solitary in their ways. Lack of speech and usually a flattened effect or lack of normal emotional range. Space occupying lesion: this is anything other than the brain, blood, and cerebrospinal fluid because there is a fixed volume in the cranium. These lesions can press on healthy brain tissue and lead the brain to herniation. This involves the movement of brain tissue across other normal tissue compartments.