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SCHIZOPHRENIA “SPLIT MIND” 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 SCHIZOPHRENIA PURELY PHYSIOLOGICAL: chemical imbalance (dopamine) PSYCHOSIS: delusions which the patient believes are real Freud believed all behaviors controlled by chemical brain reactions SCHIZOPHRENIA BEHAVIORS : speech & behavior patterns lose touch with reality Mis-firings of nerve endings create delusions SCHIZOPHRENIA SYMPTOMS (2/5 for month +) 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 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 SCHIZOPHRENIA ADHD comes from the outside/environmental stimulus SCHIZOPHRENIA derives from internal stimuli 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 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 Schizophrenia Paranoids are least severe & most common NORMAL: hypnogogic – hear voices when falling asleep hypnopompic – hear voices when awakening 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