Schizophrenia
Treatment
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
Used as last resort
Temporary Confusion and head pain
Misuse of equiptment
Given three times a week f
or two to four weeks
High success rate
Works rapidly
Electrical current applied to the breain
Induces a seizure
Anidepressants medications
Antipsychotic medications
Side effects
Tremors/muscle spasms
Blurry vision
Dry mouth
Drowsiness/restlessness
Best form of treatment today
Don't cure the patient, just reduce symptoms
Based on clinical research and experiments
Symptoms
Cognative
Hard to understand simple tasks
and decision making
Trouble focusing and remebering
Make it hard to live a normal life
Cause great emotional stress
Subltle
Negative
Poor interaction skills
Talking
Flat affect (blunted affect)
Lack of emotion and behavior
Often mistaken for depression symptoms
Disruptions in normal
behavior and emition
Positive
Hallucinations
Come and go
Lose touch with reality
Psychotic behaviors
Appearance
Brain has larger ventricles
Less gray matter
Less activity
More activity
May seem fine on the exterior until they talk about what is going on inside
Withdraw, isolation, unusual thoughts, family history of psychosis
Prodomal period
Chronic brain disorder
Causes are unknown
Brain chemical malfunction
Develop higher functioning skills
Neurotransmitters
Gluamate
Dopamine
1% of Americans
Hear voices, see people, think others are reading your mind, or controlling you
Starts ages 16-30
Men experience symptoms earlier
Terrified, withdrawn, agitated
John Forbes Nash Jr.
Born June 13, 1928, West Virginia
Diagnosed with schizophrenia
Mild clinical depression
Antipsycholitc medicine
Insulin shock therapy
Lack of motivation for life
Auditory and perceptual disturbances
Delusions
Studied at Carnegie Mellon University
and Princeton University
Equilibrium theory
Leroy P. Steele Prize
John von Neumann Theory Prize
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Economy
Mathematics
