PSY100H1 Chapter Notes -Antisocial Personality Disorder, Emil Kraepelin, Personal Grooming
2 Jul 2014
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Involves behavioural observations that evaluate the person for characteristics such as personal grooming, ability to make eye contact, tremors or twitches, mood, speech, thought content, and memory. Insight: increase patient"s understanding of their own psychological processes. Involves implanting electrodes within certain parts of the brain: first widely used to treat symptoms of parkinson"s, might be especially valuable for treating severe ocd and. Just under 6%, with women often more diagnosed than men: panic disorder, an anxiety disorder characterized by sudden, overwhelming attacks of terror. Largely serendipitous discovery: prozac, an ssri, does not act on histamine or acetylcholine, so it doesn"t have the side effects associated with tricyclic antidepressants (although can lead to insomnia, headache, weight loss, sexual dysfunction) Identity lack a strong sense of self, fear abandonment, can be very manipulative in their attempts to control relationships: affect profound emotional instability.
