L33 Psych 100B Study Guide - Final Guide: Eugen Bleuler, Avolition, Dementia
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Positive symptoms: something someone has that he or she should not have. Hallucinations auditory more common voices in their head. Alogia lack of speech, general lack of additional, unprompted content seen in normal speech. Genetics heavily related to developing schizophrenia: identical twins 48% risk, general population 1% risk. Other congenital factors: prenatal viral infections, birth trauma oxygen deprivation, prenatal nutrition netherlands. During wwii, has a famine babies that were born during this time were twice as likely to develop schizophrenia compared to the other part that did not have a famine. Treatment: antipsychotic drugs: decrease dopamine, reduce positive symptoms, not negative, side effects parkinson symptoms lack of dopamine in brain, atypical antipsychotics target not only dopamine, but other neurotransmitters as well. Family support: expressed emotion : bad, negative environment (family dynamics, robust predictor of relapse, high contact with family with high expressed emotion shows highest % relapse, low contact but with high ee is high % as well.
