PSY240H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Intellectual Disability, Eye Tracking, Solitude
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Schiz: on the spectrum with autism, reason is people with schiz tend to withdraw from society, which makes it along the lines of autism since the environment is overbearingly stimulating. They think it is along this because schiz is also sensitive to society"s stimulation: spectrum, mental retardation > autism > schiz > schizoa ective disorder. Insanity , or lunacy previous to 1700: only in the 1880s did schizophrenia became more of a de ned disorder, once de ned, cases surged, e. g. , 2000% in maritime canada between 1847 and 1960. Factors such as industrialization, urban vs. rural living, and environmental changes may have a large role in the increase in schizophrenia. It is a chronic and relapsing disorder: only 20% with favorable outcome, when its seen after a certain point of late adolescence suggests that it is a developmental disorder. Important: since their is an equal gender onset, then genetic factors must be an important role.
