PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: 5-Ht Receptor, Neurochemistry, Mental Disorder
21 Jan 2017
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High impulsive children = less depression when discipline consistent, more when discipline inconsistent. Adolescents with low mao more conduct disorder with high childhood adversity, less with low adversity. Short allele for serotonin receptor = poor response when high stress present, best response under low levels of stress. Short allele for serotonin receptor = most depression after poor early environment, least depression after supportive early environment. (begin with symptoms; what the patient does or says about the behavior) behavioral. Symptom --> psychological process (underlying those symptoms is some set of psychological processes; attention, emotional regulation) --> brain structure or brain chemistry --> look underneath in the genes. Disorders are causes and symptoms arise from a complex number of things such as behavioural, psychological, neurochemical, genetic, environmental. Immune system (growing evidence that it is involved in many different cases of mental disorder) Gut/digestive system (the bacteria in the gut and their secretions effect brain function)
