BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Tricyclic Antidepressant, Auditory Hallucination, Chlorpromazine
18 Mar 2016
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We can control our behaviour, not all behaviour can be easily controlled. Geneic basis for personality: mental illness has a geneic component. Mental illness was once thought to be caused by demons. Lobotomy became popular in 1940"s: needle through the eye, thousands of people lobotomized. Electroshock therapy widely used: sill done these days but anasthetic is used! 1950"s: efecive drugs for mental problems were developed. Hallucinaions and delusions of persecuion: auditory hallucinaions, confused thinking, magical thinking, false beliefs, anxiety disorders, feelings of persecuion, lack emoion. Anihistamines to calm surgical paients (promethazine), experimented and made the drug. Thorazine: first efecive treatment for schizophrenia 1952 thorazine, 25% achieved remission, side efects similar to parkinson"s disease. Grimacing, dyskenisia (sick tongue out), lip smacking. Theory that high dopamine levels cause schizophrenia: thorazine lowers dopaime amounts in the brain, reduces psychosis of schizophrenia, amphetamines raise dopamine amounts in the brain, produce psychosis similar to schizophrenia.
