HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Substance Abuse, Pharmaceutical Industry, Methylphenidate
2 Apr 2016
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Line drawn where: no blood tests, brain scans and other diagnostic brain tests to make decision. Hyper sexuality for a university student vs. a politician: issue of context. Where does the person stop and the disorder begin: disease is a foreign agent. Emma pendleton bradley home in rhode island: spinal tap (painful) in neurological assessment of children, to combat headaches, one physician gave amphetamine (speed) in. Before late 1950s, hardly mentioned in psych literature. 1957 researchers from home publish hyperkinetic impulse disorder : symptoms: short attention span, irritability, impulsive, poor school work, emphasis on boys being diagnosed (15:1, stressed that more prone than adults, more like normal children than severely disturbed. Borderland between normal and abnormal: intrinsically linked to scholastic performance (schools, 1968, included in dsm ii, deemed epidemic is usa. Most (all) disorders increase linearly with time. Label reduced complex issues (misbehaviour or poor school performance) to incredibly simple and easy to understand explanation: hyperactive problem.
