PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mental Disorder, Etiology, 5-Ht Receptor

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2AP3
• Professor: Geoffrey Hall

Document Summary

Common in clinical settings: anxiety, mood disorders. Debilitating, focus of much research: schizophrenia, mood disorders, autism, adhd. Illuminate psychological functions, issues: dissociative, somatoform disorders. Recent focus of public interest, research: adhd, asd. Area of controversy: validity and nature of disorders o did, about half of the psychiatrists in the us and canada don"t believe did is a real disorder. Physical, cognitive, behavioural causes and causality lomoar cpsd| 2151316. Underlying condition that predisposes the individual to the development of mental disorder symptoms: we can"t say what causes the predisposition, but it has to be present. Need a stressor could be any kind of stress. Only when both diathesis and stress are present, you get a disorder. If we have situation: circumstance a always leads to b a is a sufficient cause of b. A is sufficient and necessary , must have a in order to get b.