Transcript schizophrenia

SCHIZOPHRENIA
“SPLIT MIND”
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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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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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BEHAVIORS : speech & behavior patterns
lose touch with reality
Mis-firings of nerve endings create
delusions
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SYMPTOMS (2/5 for month +)
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Inappropriate response to a situation (cry instead
of laugh)
Loss of a specific behavior (usually talk > 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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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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ADHD comes from the
outside/environmental stimulus
SCHIZOPHRENIA derives from internal
stimuli
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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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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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Paranoids are least severe & most
common
NORMAL: hypnogogic – hear voices
when falling asleep hypnopompic – hear
voices when awakening
Famous People With Schizophrenia
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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