PSYO 2470 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Tropic Hormone, Negative Feedback, Basolateral Amygdala
2 May 2017
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Neurology: concerned with diagnosis and treatment of nervous system disorders, focus on physiological processes that go awry that might lead to abnormal brain functions. Psychiatry: concerned with diagnosis or treatment of illnesses of the mind or psyche, physicians, main focuses on mood disorders and psychosis, able to prescribe drugs. Clinical psychology: field of practice that deals with human functioning, do(cid:374)"t just treat disorders of thought, emotion, or behaviour, also involved in health and well-being promotion. General practitioners: vast majority of drug prescriptions comes from gps. Lots of criticism deviance by itself is not sufficient for criterion of mental illness: lots of people display some sort of deviant behaviour but are not mentally ill. Dsm creates a common criteria for classification of mental illnesses. Early beliefs body considered separate from the mind: disorders of the body had a physical cause and a physical treatment, disorders of the mind not based in biology.
