PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Autism Spectrum, Schizoaffective Disorder, Schizotypal Personality Disorder
5 Dec 2016
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Psychotic disorders: schizotypal personality disorder, schizophreniform disorder, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, substance/medication-induced psychotic. Disorder: psychotic disorder due to another medical. At least 2 of the following during a 1 month period; 1 must be (1), (2), or (3: delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech (frequent derailment or incoherence) Form of thought: loosening of associations, poverty of speech content, vagueness, abstraction in speech, neologisms, clanging, preservation. Content of thought: implausible delusions: of persecution, reference, thought manipulation: Auditory: voices outside the head, criticizing or commenting on behaviours, repeating individual"s thoughts, commanding individual to act. Somatic: e. g, snakes crawling in abdomen, e. g, penetration by knife, hand. Symptoms of schizophrenia: flat or inappropriate affect, disturbance to sense of self: Unclear sense of identity, outside control: avolition: Loss of interest, will, ambivalence: impaired interpersonal functioning. Social withdrawal, emotional detachment: psychomotor behaviour (catatonia): Positive symptoms: disturbance, excess of normal function, hallucinations, delusions. Negative symptoms: diminution, loss of normal function, alogia: poverty of speech, flat affect, anhedonia asociality avolition.
