PSYA02H3 Lecture : Schizophrenia.docx
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A group of psychological disorders involving distortions of thought, perception and emotion; bizarre behaviour; and social withdrawal. Does actually have voices in head auditory hallucinations instead of visual. This is not how normal people carry on conversations with themselves, when the language centers in the brain are used but muted. Schizophrenics have a voice that is not from themselves but seems to have a voice that comes from the outside world the language centers tend to be more active. Means split mind but does not involve multiple personalities. Schizophrenia leads to a lot of hospitalizations but there is only so much that hospitals can do. Schizophrenia does have the ability to remain unnoticed until certain points of the life. Does tend to happen to people who are more intelligent. These symptoms are those that people with schizophrenia have but normal people don"t) The feeling that someone is out to get you paranoia.
