HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Gender Dysphoria, Sex Reassignment Surgery, Nicotine
12 Apr 2016
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Hypersexuality for a normal person vs. a politician: what is normal behaviour may difer from person to person. Where does the person stop and the disorder begins: we don"t contain mental disorders the way we contain somatic disorders. Bradley home in rhode island home from orphaned children: painful procedure involving a spinal tap in neurological assessment of children. There was no need for a medication that treated hyperactivity. The idea that some children had too much energy and needed to be calm down or sedated, didn"t exist. Before late 1950s, hyperactivity hardly mentioned in literature. 1957, researchers from bradley home published on hyperkinetic impulse disorder : symptoms include hyperactivity, shirt attention span, irritability, impulsiveness, poor schoolwork, and variability of behaviour. The school setting becomes tied to the idea of school performance context speciic disorder: stressed that all children were prone to this behaviour more than adults and that these children were more like normal children than severely disturbed.
