PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15.4: Catatonia, Frontal Lobe, Amygdala
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Schizophrenia: brain disease that causes the person to experience significant breaks from reality, lack of integration of thoughts and emotions, and problems with attention and memory. Strongly affected by social factors such as family support and life events that cause stress. Symptoms can also fluctuate (can be acute or in remission) person still able to function normally. Active phase: people typically experience delusional thoughts, hallucinations, or disorganized patterns of thoughts, emotions and behaviours. Residual phase: in which people"s predominant symptoms have disappeared or lessened considerably, and they may be simply withdrawn, have trouble concentrating and generally lack motivation. Some people cycle a few times or repeatedly. Symptoms can occur for a variety of different reasons. Disorganized behaviour: describes the considerable difficulty people with this disorder may have completing the tasks of everyday life. Types of schizophrenia: paranoid, disorganized, catatonic, undifferentiated, and residual. Negative symptoms: absence of adaptive behaviours (e. g. absent/float emotional reactions) Environmental (winter birth) and prenatal factors (stress)
