PSYB65H3 Lecture Notes - Chemical Synapse, Mood Stabilizer, Central Sulcus
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Today"s lecture will be on midterm exam, next monday"s lecture won"t be on midterm. Psychiatric disorders (more pharmacological): psychological assistance programs, social work etc, schizophrenia, mood disorders (dep/mania), ad. Poor performance on frontal lobe fxn tests. Deficits in memory tasks (verbal & non-verbal) Most other neuropsych. tests show that they"re completely normal. Don"t know if due to actual dysfxn of memory/frontal cortex fxn or due to meds : enlarged ventricles, lighter brain weight. If these ppl have been on tranquilizers for years which are dulling the brain down, has that caused brain to shrink? (secondary effect to meds) Not ethical to take away meds and see what happens: don"t know what"s going on neuropsychologically but know what"s going on pharmacologically, genetics: As late as 1960"s-70"s, all was very freudian (absent father, overprotective mom) Primary theory at that time was that schizo was a psychological problem and they were trying to treat it psychologically; it was really a neuroscience problem.
