NSC-2201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 22: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Temporal Lobe, Blood Transfusion
1 May 2017
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Psychosocial approaches to mental illness: behaviorism: rejects notions of underlying conflicts with the unconscious and focuses on observable behaviors and their control by the environment, psychotherapy talk therapy is the treatment. The promise and challenge of molecular medicine in psychiatry: molecular medicine: approach of using genetic information to develop a treatment, pathophysiology: discovery of abnormal physiological process suggests biological processes that can be targeted with drug therapy. Panic disorder: panic attacks are sudden feelings of intense terror that occur without warning, panic disorder: recurring, seemingly unprovoked panic attacks and a persistent worry about having further attacks, 2% of population suffer with 2x occurrence in women. Agoraphobia: severe anxiety about being in placed where escape might be difficult or embarrassing. Post-traumatic stress disorder: ptsd: psychological wounds of experiencing or witnessing a shocking event or events, increased anxiety, intrusive memories, dreams or flashbacks of traumatic experiences, irritability, and emotional numbness, affects 3. 5% of us population.
