Schizophrenia
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- Created on: 09-10-21 09:45
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- Schizophrenia and psychotic disorders
- Characterstics
- Delusions
- Erotomanic
- grandiose
- Jealous
- persecutory
- Hallucinations
- Disorganised thoughts
- catatonic behaviour
- negative symptoms
- Delusions
- Explanations
- Genetic(Gottesman and shields) endephenotypes geneticaly inherited. 50% MZ twins shared symptoms.
- Biochemical (Lindstorn): Excess dopamine production connection with positive symptoms.
- Cognitive (Frith) : Mentaly faulty process, abnormality of self monitoring, attribution of inner thoughts to external stimuli.
- Treatment and Management
- Biochemical: antipsychotics and atypical antipsychotics: block dopamine and serotonin receptors
- Electroconvulsive therapy: induced sizure through electric shocks to restart nervous systems and specific enzymes.
- Token economy: operant conditioning, reinforce appropriate behaviour.
- Cognitive Behaviour therapy: talking therapy, challenging underlying beliefs causing symptoms.
- Characterstics
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