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Schizophrenic Disorders
Symptoms of Schizophrenia
1.Disorganized thinking.
2.Disturbed Perceptions3.Inappropriate
Emotions and Actions
Disorganized Thinking
• The thinking of a person with Schizophrenia is fragmented and bizarre and distorted with false beliefs.
• Disorganized thinking comes from a breakdown in selective attention.- they cannot filter out information.
Inappropriate Emotions and Actions
• Laugh at inappropriate times.
• Senseless, compulsive acts.
• Catatonia- motionless Waxy Flexibility
Positive vs. Negative Symptoms
Positive Symptoms•Presence of inappropriate symptoms•delusions•hallucinations•inappropriate emotions
Negative Symptoms•Absence of appropriate ones.•social withdrawal•apathy (decreased motivation)•poverty of speech (brief replies)•inability to experience pleasure
Paranoid Schizophrenia
• preoccupation with delusions or hallucinations.
• Somebody is out to get me!!!!
Catatonic Schizophrenia
• Flat effect (showing no emotion)
• Waxy Flexibility (holding a position, like made of wax)
• parrot like repeating of another’s speech and movements
Possible Causes of Schizophrenia
Nature• Dopamine Hypothesis –
Suggests that an excess release of dopamine may be a cause
• deteriorated brain tissue• obesity prior to pregnancy• infection during second
trimester
Nurture• drug and/or alcohol abuse• stress• living in urban
environments
These are ONLY possible causes! Exact causes remain UNKNOWN!