SCHIZOPHRENIA

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SCHIZOPHRENIA

• SPLIT MIND

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SCHIZOPHRENIA

• TARGET 17-28 (usually early twenties)
• 4 million Americans 1.5 world pop.
• SIGNS long term depression, paranoia, extremely
  bad headaches
• CAUSES frontal lobe injury, brain hemorrage,
  blood clots, drug use, horrific childhood
  experience

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SCHIZOPHRENIA

• PURELY PHYSIOLOGICAL chemical imbalance
  (dopamine)
• PSYCHOSIS delusions which the patient believes
  are real
• Freud believed all behaviors controlled by
  chemical brain reactions

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SCHIZOPHRENIA

• BEHAVIORS speech behavior patterns lose
  touch with reality
• Mis-firings of nerve endings create delusions

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SCHIZOPHRENIASYMPTOMS (2/5 for month )

• Inappropriate response to a situation (cry
  instead of laugh)
• Loss of a specific behavior (usually talk gt
  become quiet)
• Delusion-erroroneous beliefs or misperceptions
  (hallucinations are physical visualizations)
• Paranoia of pursuit
• Emotional may be flat w/o a range of feelings
  (affective flattening) or hysterical

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SCHIZOPHRENIA SYMPTOMS

• No initiation of goal rltd behaviors
  (avolition)
• Disorganized thinking/speech jumps from one
  topic to another (word salad alogia-empty
  or nonresponsive speech)
• Unable to focus
• Sleep Disturbance

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SCHIZOPHRENIA

• ADHD comes from the outside/environmental
  stimulus
• SCHIZOPHRENIA derives from internal stimuli

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Schizophrenia

• Catatonic Stupor psychomotor disturbance
  accompanied by immobility or uncontrolled motor
  coordination (Gumby) waxy flexibility
• Echolalia keep repeating a single word/phrase
  that someone said
• Echopraxia keep repeating a movement

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Schizophrenia

• Shorter life expectancy 10 commit suicide from
  delusions/substance abuse
• Some patients have larger brain size than normal
• Drink excessive water
• Earlier onset in males (early 20s, female later
  20s) Prodromal initial stages
• Onset is gradual non-curable
• Insulin shots used as a shock treatment to the
  brain as a possible rehealing
• EST used in severe cases
• Synthetic dopamine replacement therapy

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Schizophrenia

• Paranoids are least severe most common
• NORMAL hypnogogic hear voices when falling
  asleep hypnopompic hear voices when awakening

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Famous People With Schizophrenia

• Tom Harrell Jazz Musician
• Meera Popkin Broadway Star
• John Nash Mathematician/Nobel Prize Winner
• Andy Goram Scottish Soccer Player
• Lionel Aldreidge Super Bowl winning football
  player
• Peter Green Guitarist for Fleetwood Mac
• Syd Barrett Pink Floyd
• Skip Spence/Bob Mosley 1960s Rockers
• Joe Meek British music producer
• Jim Gordon Drummer
• Buddy Bolden Jazz Musician
• Antpin Artaud Dramatist/Artist
• Mary Todd Lincoln wife of Abe
• Vaclav Nijinsky Russian Dancer