CRM/LAW C160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Catatonia, Mental Disorder, Anticholinergic
14 Nov 2016
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The dsm (diagnostic & statistical manual of mental disorders) Clinically significant disturbance in cognition, emotional regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying mental functioning. Mental disorders are associated with significant distress or disability in social, occupation, or other important activities. Not an expected or culturally sanctioned response to an event. Schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, dissociative disorders, mood disorders, sexual disorders. Tend to go off on a tangent often. Catatonic: coma-like daze, lacking speech, movement or response is bizarre, hyperactive speech and movement. Disorders in which exposure to traumatic or stressful event is listed explicitly as a diagnostic criterion. Exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, of sexual violence. Duration of symptoms is more than one month. Disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception. 2+ distinct identities or personalities: take control of persons behavior. Persistent elevated or irritable mood and 3+ of the following for 1 week.
