PSYC 3604 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Reduced Affect Display, Taste, Atypical Antipsychotic

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3604
• Professor: Chris Motz

Document Summary

Psychoses: a class of psychological disorders where reality contact (the ability to successfully interact with one"s environment) is impaired. Psychotic: delusions or prominent hallucinations, with the hallucinations occurring in the absence of insight into their pathological nature. Or, could also include prominent hallucinations that the individual realizes are hallucinatory experiences. An even broader deinition would also include other positive symptoms of. Schizophrenia (i. e. disorganized speech, grossly disorganized or catatonic behaviour). Schizotypal personality disorder: delusional disorder, brief psychotic disorder, schizophreniform. Disorder due to another medical condition: catatonia associated with another mental disorder, or another medical condition, or unspeciied catatonia, other speciied, or unspeciied, schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders, key features. Positive symptoms appear to relect an excess or distortion of normal functions. Including distortions in thought content (delusions), perception (hallucinations), language and thought processes (disorganized speech), and self-monitoring of behaviour (grossly disorganized or catatonic behaviour). Negative symptoms appear to relect a diminution or loss of normal functions: key features: delusions.