PSY 1305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, American Psychiatric Association, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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Capgras syndrome: malfunction in amygdala that affects your emotional physiological response to people making you think someone is impersonating your friends/family. Prefrontal lobotomy was a failure in psychology because it caused patients to become a vegetable or had undesired effects (unresponsiveness to emotions, epilepsy, and unable to control bladder). Walter freedman"s lobotomy operation did not cure illness. Diathesis-stress model: genetic psychiatric disorders only develops with a predisposition/vulnerability and stressor (environmental factor/conditions). Multifactorial threshold model: disorder only arises when threshold of many different genes that contribute to illness is passed. Some psychiatric disorders persist because it can be advantageous to siblings (schizophrenia positively correlates to creativity of siblings). Psychiatric disorders require an impairment or disturbance in cognition, functioning, regulating emotions, and personal distress. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fifth edition (dsm-5): a system created by the american psychiatric association that classifies and describes psychological disorders, as well as diagnostically label people.
