PSYC 3406 Study Guide - Final Guide: Disorganized Schizophrenia, Avoidant Personality Disorder, 5-Ht Receptor
6 Jun 2018
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● Bolded questions on study guide are on test
● What are atypical antipsychotics and what do they act on?
○ Dopamine receptors
Essay
● Group presentations
● Focus on impact factors
● Pick a topic (disorder) to be consistent across 4 articles
● 2 low impact factors, compare and contrast to 2 high impact factor papers (choose from
notes for final)
○ 1.6 Impact Factor (low)
■ A Hormonal Approach to Antisocial Behavior
■ 80 men had antisocial personality disorder
● 1 group had higher level of psychopathy (over 25 on checklist)
● 1 group scored under and was antisocial personality group
■ Some worked at jail
■ Chewed cotton ball to test hormones and saw if there was relationship
between cortisol and testosterone and psychopathic tendencies
■ Found that you couldn’t diagnose psychopathy or antisocial personality
disorders from hormones
■ Did find some correlation between high cortisol levels and psychopathic
tendencies
■ Sample
● 81 from inpatient facilities or jails (clinical population)
● 51 hospital employees (non-clinical)
● 34 from general public (non-clinical)
■ Assessment (Measures)
● Hormonal analysis (from chewing cotton ball)
● Psychopathy checklist (self-report)
■ Impact
● Negative results
● Very specialized population of individuals and so might not pertain
to different geographic regions, communities, etc.
■ Relate all this to abnormal psychology (in this case antisocial personality
disorder)
○ Low Impact Factor #2
■ Depression, anxiety, and smartphone addiction in college students
● Looked at symptoms of smartphone addiction and show
similarities to substance abuse (withdrawal etc.)
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■ Sample
● University students from one university (general population)
■ Assessment
● Self-report survey to assess both depression and anxiety symptoms
and smartphone addiction
■ Impact
● Positive results where cell phone use was associated with both
depression and anxiety
● Very specific population so not very generalizable (narrowly
focused)
○ High - 4.8
■ Cognitive markers and predictors of autism
■ Sample - clinical and non-clinical with groups unique from each other
● High risk (siblings with a clinical diagnosis)
● Low risk (not)
■ Assessment - many different assessments, beyond self report (novel tools,
sophisticated measure, thorough assessments), longitudinal study over
unique developmental time windows
● Focus (disengagement latency)
● Eye gaze test
● Autism observation scale for infants (clinically)
● Autism diagnostic interview tests
● Intelligence test
■ Impact - unique and statistically significant findings that led to positive
results
● All results were significant
○ At 7 and 14 months: eye gaze and disengagement latency
significant with AOSI
● There were some misdiagnoses
○ High - 40
■ Oxytocin receptor polymorphisms and how they’re related to autism
spectrum disorder and ADHD
■ Sample - unique clinical and non-clinical, focus on one race because of
genetic differences (homogeneous population)
● Caucasian group
■ Measure - host of genetic screens for unique polymorphisms
● Social communication questionnaire
● Social perceptions abilities section of tests to make them more
focused
■ Impact - negated some results and found significant results
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● Confirmed associations in children with ASD
● But found the opposite of what they expected for children with
ADHD
● First study that compared genotypes across diagnostic disorders
(spectrum disorders)
● First study to find biomarkers that could underlie not only ASD but
also ADHD
● Positive and negative results but were the first to see if there were
similarities between ASD and ADHD
● Know some about the results
● You don’t need to know specific tools
High Impact Factor (Above 4)
● PTSD among Syrian refugees
○ https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18HPYQPgk-
36bv7ggJk40IOrWaHLUL4l8DuXuMqA_yu4/edit#slide=id.g270bccf78a_0_141
○ Impact Factor: 4.465
○ Sample:
■ 792 participants
■ 417 male, 375 female
■ Had a broad spread of education background, as well as the manner in
which they left Syria
○ Measure:
■ Multiple questionnaires used to assess the level of the trauma that the
people experienced, comorbidities and how central the trauma is to the
person’s identity
■ Self report
○ Impact:
■ Very current
■ Emphasized importance of PTSD testing
■ Found that results model was much more complicated than they originally
thought (i.e. self efficacy isn’t as directly related to lesser PTSD
symptoms as they thought)
● Effects of scopolamine as an antidepressant in mice
○ https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18d5ND8NutC8TQJ-
IJEmHAlbbHz7Pfb0c8Df5agako4A/edit#slide=id.p
○ Impact Factor: 4.712
○ Sample:
■ Mice
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Document Summary
Bolded questions on study guide are on test. Pick a topic (disorder) to be consistent across 4 articles. 2 low impact factors, compare and contrast to 2 high impact factor papers (choose from notes for final) 1 group had higher level of psychopathy (over 25 on checklist) 1 group scored under and was antisocial personality group. Chewed cotton ball to test hormones and saw if there was relationship between cortisol and testosterone and psychopathic tendencies. Found that you couldn"t diagnose psychopathy or antisocial personality disorders from hormones. Did find some correlation between high cortisol levels and psychopathic tendencies. 81 from inpatient facilities or jails (clinical population) Very specialized population of individuals and so might not pertain to different geographic regions, communities, etc. Relate all this to abnormal psychology (in this case antisocial personality disorder) Depression, anxiety, and smartphone addiction in college students. Looked at symptoms of smartphone addiction and show similarities to substance abuse (withdrawal etc. )
