PSY240H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dsm-5, Schizophrenia
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Oct. 9, 2013: selecting appropriate treatment (most significant benefit, harm, stigma, example: an individual diagnosed with schizophrenia is labeled as schizophrenic (which has a negative connotation), in psychopathology, individuals are labeled as their disorder, this doesn"t occur in physiological maladies. Assesses the image of an individual with a psychopathology"s brain to compare and contrast the images structurally and functionally: structural, cat( c axial tomography) scan (most common) cheaper, magnetic resonance imaging (mri) doesn"t use x ray, functional, how the functioning of the brain differs from the norm, pet (positron emission tomography) scan: looks at what part of the brain are active using radiation. Diagnostic systems: empirically derived, clinically derived, dsm is not empirically derived, although it attempts to be by using genetics, neurochemical and imaging for collecting empirical data, dsm and icd are both clinically derived, which means it is derived by study groups of professionals in the field.
