Behavioural Illness -- Celular Basis Flashcards
What is catatonia?
Motor inmobility
What is included under catatonia?
Catalepsy
Mutism
Waxy Flexibility
Negativism
Catalepsy
increased resistance to movement and tone against gravity
Waxy Flexibility
Slight resistance to movement but maintenance of the pose afterwards
Negativism
no response to instructions of external stimuli
Define psychosis
loss of contact/connection with reality (exclusion diagnosis)
Depression is characterised by a decrease in
Serotonin and Noradrenaline
Pruning is
loss of neurons and synapses in order to produce the most effective network possible
First part of the brain that reaches maturity? Last?
1 Sensory Cortex
Last prefrontal cortex
In schizophrenia we find
Decreased Neuronal Size and connections
Decreased Glia Numbers
*Altered Neuron Cytoskeleton
Human Pre-frontal cortex is fully developed at
24-25
What is HoxB8 knock out related to?
Development of OCD
in autism there is an overgrowth of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex T/F. With a reduction of the microglia T/F
T
Autism in children has a genetic composition T/F
T almost completely if no other cause
Parents of autistic child have both protective and inducing genes T/F
T. they lie between healthy and autistic genetically
