PSYC 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Major Depressive Disorder, Panic Disorder, Panic Attack
30 Nov 2017
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In people without schizophrenia, neural networks are efficiently clustered and their patterns of firing are typically orderly. In people with schiz. , this communication flow is disorderly and inefficient, especially in the frontal lobes where our higher order processes like planning and goal-setting occur. A positive symptom of schizophrenia is hallucinations. What seems to occur, is activity in the frontal lobes is reduced during the hallucination. identical to, real external stimulation from the environment. This means the brain is not actively monitoring the source of the images as being internally generated by the imagination, or externally generated by a real world experience. Depressive disorders are expressions of disturbance in mood and emotion. The general term depressive disorders includes two specific diagnoses: According to dsm-5, to be diagnosed with major depressive disorder a person must show at least 5 of the following 9 symptoms for at least 2 weeks: More importantly, these symptoms must significantly impact daily functioning in terms of.
