Schizophrenia
By: Lisette Orozco
Characteristics
- Delusions
- Paranoid Delusions
- Hallucinations
- Don't express emotions
THE BRAIN
Fluid-filled spaces in the brain are enlarged in the schizophrenic brain.
More fluid indicates less room for other structures of the brain.
Dopamine, serotonin, and glutamate affect emotions.
Less blood flow makes for impaired judgement when: thinking, reasoning, feeling and telling the body what to do.
Types of Schizophrenia
- Paranoid Schizophrenia: Most common
- Disorganized Schizophrenia: Disoriented thought process
- Catatonic Schizophrenia: Disturbance in movement
- Undifferentiated Schizophrenia: Insufficient information to classify information
- Residual Schizophrenia: Decaying symptoms
Physical, Social, and Cognitive
Emotional: can't display joy, desireless, detached from own body, and hypersensitivity to criticism
Physical: blank expressions, overly acute senses, staring, clumsy, and unusual eye movements.
Cognative: making up words, jumble words, and no logic
Behavioral Characteristics
Irritability
Emotional
Blank face
Do not make sense when speaking
Can't control emotions
Classroom Modification
Taught to help raise their IQ
- Graphic organizers
- Comprehension checks
- Visual maps
- Creating worksheets to help organize their thoughts
- Acronyms
Summary of Dissorder
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that only affects 1-2% of all people. It is a disorder that causes delusions and hallucinations. Seeing things that are not real and creating an alternate world is common among patients. These patients are often irrational and have no logic behind the way they act and blame people in their hallucinations for their own actions.
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