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    Sustance Related Disorders Why do people take substances? People abuse substances for many different reasons. Some people take substances because of peer pressure and think that they might be immune‚ others do it because they are stressed and need something to keep them away from their problems. Some people‚ specially teenagers take them just for a thrill or curiosity. The truth is‚ for whatever the reason people start taking substances‚ the outcome will be that the user

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    According to the biological approach the mental disorder Schizophrenia will have an underlying physical cause such as imbalance of hormones‚ brain damage and infection. There is strong evidence that biological factors influence the presence of Schizophrenia. There are certain chemical abnormalities that can be observed in people suffering from schizophrenia. Post-mortems on schizophrenics have shown unusually high levels of dopamine. Dopamine is a brain chemical that increases the sensitivity of

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    Behavior Disorders (Emotional Disturbance Pg 207-210) I. Facts: * Behavior disorders include mental health problems with a focus on behaviors that both identify emotional problems and create interpersonal and social problems for children and adolescents in the course of their development. * Currently‚ students with such disorders are categorized as having a serious emotional disturbance‚ which is defined under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)‚ Public Law 101-476‚ as follows:

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    Biological Perspective & Schizophrenia Q. Does the Biological perspective in abnormal psychology make other perspectives obsolete? Answer with reference to one mental disorder of your choice. (35% of total module marks). Psychologists have been trying to understand mental illnesses‚ and many years ago‚ the biological perspective was the most popular due to its scientific nature. Schizophrenia – a chronic condition whereby patients lose touch with reality – was best explained by the Dopamine

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    Week Two Quiz – Biological Basis of Behavior Instructions: Each question is worth 2 points. Type your answers in the space adjacent to each question. Submit as an attachment in your assignment link. 1. The brain’s ability to adapt to new environmental conditions is called: Neural plasticity 2. Severe damage to the hippocampus will result in what effect on a person’s memory? People with severe damage to this area can still remember names‚ faces‚ and events that they recorded in memory

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    of hen lysozyme. J Mol Biol 277: 997–1005. 5. Onuchic JN‚ Wolynes PG (2004) Theory of protein folding. Curr Opin Struct Biol 14: 70–75. 6. Levinthal C (1969) How to fold graciously. In: Debrunnder JTP‚ Munck E‚ editors. Mossbauer Spectroscopy in Biological Systems: Proceedings of a meeting held at Allerton House‚ Monticello‚ Illinois. University of Illinois Press. pp. 22–24. 7. Nlting B‚ Schlike W‚ Hampel P‚ Grundig F‚ Gantert S‚ et al. (2003) Structural determinants of the rate of protein folding

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    The term ‘schizophrenia’ covers a group of serious psychotic disorders characterised by a loss of contact with reality. It comes from two Greek words: schiz meaning ‘split’ and phren meaning ‘mind’. DSM IV (1994) estimate that the occurrence rate of schizophrenia ranges from 0.2%-2.0% worldwide. There are two main explanations of schizophrenia: the biological explanations and the psychological explanations. In this essay I will critically consider the biological explanations. These include genetics

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    Schizophrenia is a severe disorder that affects the brain which leads to the person affected by this illness to interpret reality abnormally by affecting how that person feels‚ behaves‚ and thinks. While schizophrenia is not very common as other mental disorders there are reportedly more than 200‚000 cases per year in the united states alone and the symptoms can be extremely disabling. Risk Factors With the help of science and our advanced technology‚ scientists have known that schizophrenia sometimes

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    psychiatric disordersschizophrenia is one that has the least known about it. This disorder is characterized by a disruption in the individual’s ability to regulate their own thoughts‚ emotions‚ and actions or rather their overall behavior. The onset of schizophrenia is not until later in an individual’s life‚ typically beginning at the end of their teenage years extending into early adulthood. However‚ the time of diagnosis as well as the progression is essentially unique to each case. Schizophrenia can

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    Biological Criminal Behavior The studies of biological behaviors have shown that criminals with a passion for their crime tend to have a genetic or physiological issue that plays a major part in their criminal activities. Gary Ridgway and John Hinckley Jr. portrayed significant degrees of physiological issues that may have contributed to the crimes they committed. Lack of education‚ moral support‚ love‚ and self-accomplishments may have also provided behaviors out of the norm. Criminal activities

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