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Schizophrenia-Comp First Draft

John Forbes Nash Jr., a renowned mathematician born in 1928 in West Virginia, achieved significant academic and professional success, including prestigious awards like the Leroy P. Steele Prize, the John von Neumann Theory Prize, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Schizophrenia-Comp First Draft

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Terrified, withdrawn, agitated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