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CSU Psych Disorders
Schizophrenia
Term | Definition |
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Psychological Disorder | condition of abnormal thoughts, behaviors, and feelings. |
Psychopathology | study of psychological disorders, including their symptoms |
etiology | causes of psychological disorders |
atypical | deviating from the norm |
How many diagnosable disorders are there? | 237 |
Supernatural | force beyond scientific understanding |
suicide | death caused by intentional self directed injurious behavior |
somatic delusion | belief that something highly unusual is happening to ones body or internal organs |
schizophrenia | severe disorder characterized by major disurbances in thought, perception, emotion and behavior |
What are some symptoms of Schizophrenia? | hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking |
What does PTSD stand for | Posttraumatic stress disorder |
paranoid delusion | characterized by beliefs that others are out to harm them |
what is a panic attack? | period of extreme fear or discomfort that develops abruptly |
what is the orbitofrontal cortex? | area of frontal lobe involved in learning and decision making. |
what is mania? | state of extreme elation and agitation |
what does it mean when someone has a comorbidity? | when someone has a co-occurance of 2 disorders |
what is a ventricle? | one of the fluid-filled cavities within the brain |