PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Dementia Praecox, Bipolar Disorder, Disorganized Schizophrenia
23 Nov 2016
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Schizophrenia: psychotic disorder characterized by major disturbances in thought, emotion and behavior: disordered thinking in which ideas are not logically related, faulty perception and attention, flat or inappropriate affect and bizarre disturbances in motor activity. Differs across culture asia lowest and africa auditory and hallucination higher and india better recovery rate. Comorbid w/ substance abuse, anxiety and personality disorders. Clinical symptoms people affect or emotion, and life functioning. Disturbances in several major area: thought, perception, attention, motor, Positive symptoms presence of too much behavior that isn"t apparent in most: disorganized speech (formal thought): problems in organizing ideas and speaking so that a listener can understand. Loose associations: difficulty sticking to one topic or drift off on thought: delusions: beliefs held in reality, hallucinations: sensory experiences in the absence of any stimulation from the environment ex: hearing voices, talking to people who aren"t. Krapelin -dementia praecox (mental enfeeblement): early term for schizophrenia, which included dementia paranoids and catatonia and hebephrenia.
