PSY 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Psy, Ct Scan, Dsm-5
1 Dec 2020
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New findings on brain circuits, cognitive processes, and cultural factors that affect our behavior could date diagnostic criteria relatively quickly. It may be time for a new approach to a dimensional strategy: dsm-v-i in the making. Emphasize reliability, sometimes at the expense of validity: consistency more important. Think you do have the disorder, but you don"t. Think you don"t have the disorder, but you do. Utility: locating tumors, injuries, structural or anatomical abnormalities. React with brain oxygen, blood, and glucose. Advantages and limitations: yield detailed info, expense, lack adequate norms, limited clinical utility. Incidence (how many people in the population at a given time will have the disorder) Prevalence (how many people in the population as a whole have the. A single split graph in which two different results are mapped on the same graph. Looking at the same behavior over time.
