PSYC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Flu Season, Prefrontal Cortex, Frontal Lobe
30 Mar 2017
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Schizophrenia - a brain disease that causes the person to experience significant breaks from reality, a lack of integration of thoughts and emotions, and problems with attention and memory o. They don"t have more than 1 personality: affected by social life as well as brain chemistry. May cycle through cycles one in life, or many times. Most significant symptoms of schizophrenia are the tendency to experience hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Hallucinations - alterations in perception, such that a person hears, sees, smells, feels, or tastes something that does not actually exist, except in that persons own mind. Delusions - beliefs that are not based on reality. Disorganized behaviour - describes the considerable difficulty people with schizophrenia may have completing may have completing the tasks of everyday life. Disorganized schizophrenia - symptoms include thoughts, speech, behaviour, and emotion that are poorly integrated and incoherent o. People with disorganized schizophrenia may also show inappropriate, unpredictable mannerisms.
