PS101 Lecture Notes - Electroconvulsive Therapy, Tricyclic Antidepressant, Tardive Dyskinesia
Document Summary
75 questions worth 25% based on the 8 chapters covered this term plus appendix a. 15 questions based on last 3 chapter 14, 15, 16 (5 each) Not mutuality exclusive, some can be combined very effectively (some cannot) Three classes of therapies: talk, behaviour, biology. Psychosurgery (last resort) a one way street, can do things to brain but cannot undo them. Psychoactive drugs have revolutionized the treatment of mental disorder. The number of people in institutions dropped. The apparent success of a treatment that is due to the patients expectation and hopes rather than to the drug or treatment itself. Meta-analysis (when you have a group of studies and you look at them altogether) indicate that clinicians considered medication hopeful yet patient ratings in treatment groups were no greater than patient ratings in placebo groups. There may be short term success but many patients (50%-66%) stop taking medication due to side effects.
