PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Mesolimbic Pathway, Brain Injury
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Psychotic disorder characterized by major disturbances in thought, emotion, and behaviour. Disordered thinking in which ideas are not logically related, faulty perception and attention, flat or inappropriate affect, and bizarre disturbances in motor activity. Sometimes begins in childhood but appears in late adolescence or early adulthood. Isolation leading into a fantasy life of delusions and hallucinations. More common in males than in females and age of onset is earlier for men. Great deal of comorbidity (anxiety, substance abuse, suicide, depression. Symptoms involve disturbances in several major areas: thought, perception, and attention; motor behaviour; affect or emotion; and life functioning. No essential symptom must be present for a diagnosis of schizophrenia; schizophrenia is variable and diverse. Incoherence: verbal expression is marked by disconnectedness, fragmented thoughts, and jumbled phrases. loose associations: difficulty sticking to one topic and drifts off on a train of associations evoked by an idea from the past y delusions.
