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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Terrified, withdrawn, agitated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