PSY 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Electroconvulsive Therapy
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Insituionalizaion of the poor, criminals, and mentally ill. Ex) out on the street and into community care. Biomedical therapies: treaing mental disorders as problems in brain funcioning and imbalance. Psychopharmacology: branch of psychology that invesigates the efects of drugs on behaviour. Anipsychoic drugs: block or reduce sensiivity of dopamine receptors: problems with tardive dyskinesia (chlorpromazine, haloperidol, clozapine) Anidepressant drugs: increases acivity of norepinephrine and serotonin, 3 classes: Selecive serotonin reuptake inhibitors (ssri: lithium carbonate. Drug frequently given to people sufering from. Ani-anxiety drugs bipolar disorder: increase neurotransmiter acivity and oten linked to. Cauions about drug treatments (1) limitaions to drug treatments: Placebo efect: the apparent success of a medicaion or treatment due to the paient"s expectaions/hope, rather than to the drug itself (2) high relapse and dropout rates (3) dosage problems. Therapeuic window: the amount that is enough but not too much (4) disregard for efecive, possibly beter, non-medical treatments (5) unknown long-term risks (6) untested of-label uses.
