PSY240H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Serotonergic, Causal Model, Cortisol
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Unable to control activity level, impulses and have difficulty concentrating. More disturbing to children than to the children. Problematic for the person, yet a pose a few problems for people around them. Two or more disorders occur together in the same individual. A rule in mental health, not an exception. Individual meets the diagnostic criteria for more than one disorder (can be due to over lap of symptoms) A person receiving same diagnosis in the future. A disorder that is comorbid with another disorder in the same class (externalising (odd) and later developing another externalizing (cd)) A person that a disorder that is comorbid with a disorder from a different class ( externalising to internalising) One of the most common childhood and adolescent disorder. Distrubtive behaviour, unable to concentrate/ focus and inability controlling activity or impulsiveness level. Emerge in early childhood, most get better as brain matures. Any phenotypic event (observable characteristics) = gene + environment.
