Positive symptoms
Excess Or Distortion of normal functions
-Delusions ,hallucinations ,disorganized thoughts /speech, motor disturbance
Two category
Positive and negative symptoms
Negative symptoms
Behavior defects
Subtype of schizophrenia
Paranoid Disorganized Catatonic Undifferentiated Residual
Paranoid
Preoccupied with delusion /hallucination
Disorganized
Flat /inappropriate emotion ,messed speech /behavior
Catatonic
Inability /excess movement , Repeating
Undifferentiated
Many varied symptoms
Residual
Withdrawal
Etiology of schizophrenia
Biological
Neurochemical factors
neurodevelopment hypotheses
Neurochemical factors
Dopamine Serotonin Glutamate abnormalities in Brain Enlarged ventricles Smaller Thalamus. With less metabolic. Activity
Neurodevelopment hypotheses
Destruction a normal maturity process before birth