Schizophrenia:
~ ❌ % of population, psychotic illness, mostly ❌ people, ❌ (regular/irregular psychotic episodes), lifelong and highly disabling.
Positive and negative symptoms:
- A positive symptom is one that ❌ a behavior, thought or feeling. Positive symptoms associated with schizophrenia also occur in other disorders such as ❌, psychotic depression, and ❌'s. Positive symptoms are – ❌ (paranoid), hallucinations, thought ❌, other abnormal behaviors e.g. aggression.
- Negative symptoms ❌ a behavior, thought or feeling. Negative symptoms – flattened ❌ response, social ❌, apathy, anhedonia.
Cognitive symptoms:
- ❌ - poor methodical planning in brain makes basic tasks difficult
- Difficulty representing and maintaining ❌, allocating ❌, evaluating/monitoring performance
- Impaired ❌ fluency
These are the best predictor of outcome.
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Executive dysfunction
Executive dysfunction