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| concept that diseases, in this case psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated and in most cases, cured, often through treatment in a hospital |
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-deviant, distressful & dysfunctional behavior patterns
-ongoing feelings
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| Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) |
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-psychological disorder marked by the appearance by age seven of one or more of three key symptoms
1. extreme inattention
2. hyperactivity
3. impulsivity |
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craaaaazy
An adjective describing an individual (particularly a gansta) who is mentally unstable and prone to bursts of violence or recklessness without regard to oneself
-also see "off the hook" |
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| the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, with an updated 'text revision'; a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders |
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| Psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistant anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety |
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| Generalized Anxiety Disorder |
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| an anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal |
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| An anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations |
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| An anxiety disorder marked by a persistant , irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object or situation |
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| Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) |
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| an anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or actions (compulsions) |
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| Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) |
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| an anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawl, jumpy anxiety, and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience |
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| positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises |
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| psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a somatic (bodily) form without apparent physical cause |
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| rare somatoform disorder in which a person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found |
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| a somatoform disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease |
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| disorders in which conscious awareness becomes seperated (dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings |
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| Dissociative identity disorder (DID) |
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a rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities
-formerly called multiple personality disorder |
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| psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes |
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| Major depressive disorder |
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| a mood disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or a medical condition, two or more weeks of significantly depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, and diminished interest or pleasure in most activities |
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| A mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, widly optimistic state. Elation and euphoria. |
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| a mood disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelessness and the lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania |
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| a group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, distributed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions |
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| false beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders |
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-What in the environment exposes a person to getting Schizophrenia? |
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Positive symptoms
(Schizophrenia) |
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"active" symptoms = presence of abnormal behavior
Incoherent thought: illogical thinking
Bizarre delusions: irrational beliefs, paranoia, no reasoning with
Hallucinations: voices |
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Negative symptoms
(Schizophrenia) |
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"passive" symptoms = absence of normal behavior, slow and gradual
Blunted affect: little emotion
Waxy flexibility: can move a person, will stay that way until moved again.
Patients usually have brain damage. |
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| Dopamine (DA) Theory of Schizophrenia |
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-Too much DA causes positive symptoms.
1)DA antagonists reduce symptoms (block effects of neurotransmitters)
2)DA agonists worsen symptoms (amphetamine psychosis) |
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| Major affective disorders |
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Disordered mood.
Mania-elation and euphoria
Depression-despair (reactive or intrinsic)
Bipolar disorder-alternating mania and depression
Unipolar depression-depression without mania |
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| Treatments for depression |
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-Monoamine Oxidase (MAO) Inhibitors
-Trycyclic Antidepressants
-Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs)
-Electroconvulsant Shock Therapy (ECT)
-Lithium |
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