PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 52: Frontal Lobe, Birth Weight

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Module 52: schizophrenia schizophrenia: a psychological disorder of delusions, hallucinations, disorganised speech, inappropriate emotional expression. Positive symptoms: hallucinations, disorganised speech, inappropriate laughter/rage/ tears. Negative symptoms: toneless voice, expressionless faces, mute/rigid bodies. Disturbed perceptions: hallucinations, voices telling you what to do, unreal seems real. Disorganised thinking & speech: delusions (false belief, often of persecution), word salad (jumbled ideas & sentences after one another caused by dif culty in selective attention) Diminished & inappropriate emotions: wrong emotions at wrong times, unable to identify emotions in faces, emotionless states. Chronic schizophrenia: appear in early adulthood, episodes and symptoms worsen with age and recovery is doubtful. (negative symptoms) Acute schizophrenia: begins at any age and typically after a traumatic event, more likely to recover & respond to drug therapy. (positive symptoms) Brain abnormalities: dopamine overactivity, low frontal lobe activity 9reasoning), out of sync neurons affecting neural networks.