pscychological disorders part III
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- Residual
- No longer meets the full criteria for the schizophrenia but still shows some symptoms
- Positive Symptoms
- involve additions to or exaggerations of normal thought processes of abnormal behavior (common when schizophrenia develops rapidly like acute or reacitve types)
- MRI of individuals with schizophrenia show:
- a shrunken hippocampus and larger cerebral ventricles
- Non-biological contributions to schizophrenia
- stress and family communication
- Paranoid Schizophrenia
- Dominated by delusions (persecution and grandeur) and hallucinations
- 2 general groups of substance-related disorders
- substance abuse and substance dependence
- Cataleptic
- individual with schizophrenia that assumes and uncomfortable nearly immoble stance for an extended period of time
- Comorbidity
- co-occurence of 2 or more disorders in the same person at the same time, as when a person suffers from both depression and alcoholism
- Catatonic Schizophrenia
- Marked by motor disturbances (immobility or wild activity) and echo speech
- Most common thought disturbance in schizophrenia is
- psychosis-loss of touch with reality
- Disorganized Schizophrenia
- Characterized by incoherent speech, flat or exaggerated emotions and social withdrawl
- Delusions of grandeur
- individuals feel that they are someone else (EX: like they are the Queen of England)
- Dissociative Disorder
- Amnesia, fugue, or multiple personalities resulting from a splitting apart of experience from memory or conciousness
- Negative Symptoms
- incolce the loss or absence of normal thought processes and behaviors (common when schizophrenia develops slowly like chronic or process types)
- What are the 5 subtypes of schizophrenia?? DURPC
- disorganzied, undifferenitiated, residual, paranoid, and cataonic
- Main biological theories of schizophrenia focus on...
- genetic, neuroTs, and brain abnormalities