PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Anxiety Disorder, Mental Disorder, Epigenome
3 Mar 2017
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Dsm disorder categories do not re ect the multiple and overlapping causes of mental disorders - groups things together by the simplicity of the symptoms. We do not know the causes of any disorders we will discuss, or any others in the dsm. We do not know why or how our pharmacological or psychotherapeutic treatments work. Ethical considerations prevent much research involved individuals with a particular disorder. Psychological symptoms of mental disorders cannot be easily duplicated or veri ed in non- human animals - cannot ask a rat if he"s having hallucinations (schizophrenia) Causes of mental disorder vary both between disorders, and from case to case within disorders - bunch of people with the same symptoms all caused by different things; the same pool of genes cause different disorders. The more experience you have, the less certain you are about diagnosis nipples mctwist.
