Overview – Pt. 1
• Activity: Quiz about Schizophrenia• Phenomenology of Schizophrenia• Activity: The Disordered Monologue• The Cognitive Neuroscience of Schizophrenia
Activity: Quiz about Schizophrenia
True or False:
1.Schizophrenia is a rare illness.2.Schizophrenia is a brain disease. 3.Schizophrenia usually strikes older people. 4.More males than females develop schizophrenia. 5.Schizophrenia is caused by poor parenting.
Activity: Quiz about Schizophrenia
True or False:
6.Schizophrenia is caused by street drugs. 7.People who have schizophrenia are usually violent and dangerous.8.People with schizophrenia have multiple or split personalities.9.Schizophrenia can be successfully treated. 10.People with schizophrenia are developmentally disabled, i.e., they have a low level of intelligence.
Overview – Pt. 1
• Activity: Quiz about Schizophrenia• Phenomenology of Schizophrenia• Activity: The Disordered Monologue• The Cognitive Neuroscience of Schizophrenia
Phenomenology of Schizophrenia
Delusions - False beliefs that are often fixed and hard to change even when the person is presented with conflicting information.
Phenomenology of Schizophrenia
Hallucinations - Perceptual experiences that occur even when there is no stimulus in the outside world generating the experiences
Overview – Pt. 1
• Activity: Quiz about Schizophrenia• Phenomenology of Schizophrenia• Activity: The Disordered Monologue• The Cognitive Neuroscience of Schizophrenia
Activity: The Disordered MonologueDiscussion:
People with schizophrenia’s reactions to others’ perceptions of them?
Seemingly bizarre and meaningless sentences meaningless to them?
Frustrations for someone with schizophrenia trying to communicate with others?
Common Disturbances
Loose associations
Neologisms
Perseveration
Clanging
Thought insertion/thought withdrawal
Delusions of being controlled
Overview – Pt. 1
• Activity: Quiz about Schizophrenia• Phenomenology of Schizophrenia• Activity: The Disordered Monologue• The Cognitive Neuroscience of Schizophrenia
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Schizophrenia
Problems with cognitive function Episodic Memory Working Memory Processing Speed
Cognitive deficits = RISK for schizophrenia
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Schizophrenia
Ventral Striatum Hippocampus Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex
Anterior Prefrontal Cortex
Risk Factors for Schizophrenia
Genetic No “schizophrenia gene” Heterogeneous disorder Genes associated with other mental health
conditions
Risk Factors for Schizophrenia
Environmental Problems during pregnancy Complications at birth Children born to older fathers Cannabis use Urban settings Minority status
Risk Factors for Schizophrenia
Attenuated Psychotic Syndrome – Diagnosis added to DSM-V (Section III) describing individuals who show attenuated (milder) symptoms of psychosis.
Developed recently Distress/Disability
Treatment of Schizophrenia
Cognitive Enhancement Therapy (CET)
Cognitive remediation treatment
Improves cognition & social cognition
Prevents gray matter loss
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