PSYC 3406 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Benzodiazepine, Cognitive Restructuring, Reuptake
6 Jun 2018
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● DSM-5 → diagnostic statistical manual
Axes 1 Disorders
● Illnesses that are affective in nature → emotion
○ Anxiety
○ Depression
● Affective emotional state → emotional stability
○ Eating disorders
○ Bipolar disorder
○ ADHD
○ PTSD
○ OCD
Axes 2 Disorders
● Personality disorders
○ Borderline personality disorder → extreme emotional states
■ Obsessed with others, fine line between love and hate
○ Obsessive compulsive personality disorders
○ Antisocial personality disorder
■ Lack of empathy
■ Sociopathic tendencies → highly manipulative, fluctuate between
introversion and extraversion, high executive functioning, really high
empathy but to own benefit
● Lawyer
● Politics
● Emotionally abusive
○ Psychopathic vs. sociopathic
■ Psycho →
● More aggressive physically (and sometimes emotionally)
● Lack empathy
● Less neurons in amygdala
■ Socio →
● Very high empathy
● Axes 2 are more difficult to identify and treat
○ Medication development
● SSRIs and SNRIs helpful in treating axes 1 (antidepressants)
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