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Sickness of the Mind
Exists when there are
-Problematic patterns of thought or behavior that
-have internal cause and
-disrupt a person's sense of individual well-being or social functioning |
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| State of the art in diagnosing mental illness in North America; based on medical model of mental illness |
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| What are the positive symptoms of Schizophrenia |
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(Addition to person's functions)
Hallucinations, delusions, thought disorders, repeated instances of bizarre or disorganized behavior. Due to focal brain abnormality that is probably neurochemical |
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| What are the negative symptoms of schizophrenia |
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(Loss to the individual's funtcion esp. emotion or motivation)
-poverty of speech or speech content
-affective flattening,
-inability to feel pleasure
-apathy
-difficulty sustaining attention
Due to diffuse and irreversible structural brain abnormalities, such as venticular enlargement and cortical atrophy |
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| Fluid fill cavities that are needed to live |
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A disease of inappropriate moods or emotions
-Can be arranged at opposite poles |
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Also called Unipolar Affective Disorder
-Most common affective illness
Characteristics
-Pessimism, dispair, dark outlook on life
-Slowed cognitive functions
-Constanly fatigue
-Sleep problems
-Withdrawal
-Loss of Appetite or reward
-Delusions and hallucinations |
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| What is the sex difference among sufferers of unipolar affective disorder? |
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| Women are 2x as likely to suffer from this disease then men |
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| What is Bipolar Affective Illness |
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A person cycles between the poles of the emotion continuum, between depression and mania.
Characteristics:
Alternating elation, grandiose ideas, increased energy and activity accompanied by a decrease in sleep, rapid speech and throughts planning
Sex ratio is about even, rate of heritability=high (80% for identical twins) |
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Often associated with diminished function of serotonin and norepinephrine neurotransmitters systems;
-Start in Parietal Lobe->temporal and frontal lobe
Many antidepressant drugs work by increasing levels of these transmitters in the
-May involve decreased function in left frontal lobe and increase function in right frontal lobe, successful treatment often stabilized these differences |
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