Psychological and Mental Disorders PSY 240 August 4‚ 2013 Marie Dube ’ Psychological and Mental Disorders A psychological disorder or mental disorder is a pattern of psychological or behavioral symptoms that can and usually do impact various areas of the life and/or create distress of a person that experiences symptoms. Schizophrenia‚ Depression‚ Mania‚ Anxiety disorder‚ and Tourette syndrome are all types of these disorders. Schizophrenia‚ a psychotic disorder characterized by loss
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References: schizophrenia.com. (1996-2009). Retrieved from http://www.schizophrenia.com/ Schizophrenia Health Center. (2005-2013). Retrieved from http://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/guide/mental-health-schizophrenia?page=5 Biopsychology‚ Eighth Edition‚ by John P.J. Pinel. Published by Allyn & Bacon. Copyright © 2011 by Pearson Education‚ Inc.
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University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Faculty Publications‚ Department of Psychology Psychology‚ Department of 10-1-2009 The Early Development of Gender Differences Matthew H. McIntyre University of Central Florida‚ mmcintyr@mail.ucf.edu Carolyn P. Edwards University of Nebraska - Lincoln‚ cedwards1@unl.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/psychfacpub Part of the Psychiatry and Psychology Commons
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What is PSYCHOLOGY?? * There’s a of confusion out there about psychology. According to some popular television programs and movies‚ psychologists are super-sleuths that can use their understanding of the human mind to solve crimes and predict a criminal’s next move. Other popular depictions present the psychologist as a gray and bearded older gentleman‚ seated in a stately office lined with books‚ who spends his days listening to clients ramble on about their difficult childhoods. * The scientific
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distinct components: a subjective experience‚ a psychological response‚ and a behavioural or expressive response (Hockenbury & Hockenbury‚ 2007). Charles Darwin (1809-1882) is the father of emotion; he published the first ever book about the study of biopsychology of emotion - “The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals” (Darwin‚ 1872). In his book he made two major contributions‚ one‚ that animal emotions are similar to human emotions‚ and the other‚ that there are fundamental and basic emotions present
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Psychiatric Disorders‚ Diseases‚ and Drugs PSY/240 The Brain‚ the Body‚ and the Mind Psychiatric Disorders‚ Diseases‚ and Drugs There are five main psychiatric disorders and they are schizophrenia‚ depression‚ mania‚ anxiety disorders‚ and Tourette syndrome. Psychiatric disorders are “disorders of psychological function sufficiently sever to require treatment” Pinel‚ J. P. J. (2011). The main fact about these psychiatric disorders is that they are difficult to diagnose. They use the DSM-IV-TR
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2010‚ from http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000928.htm MSN Movies. (2009). A Beautiful Mind: Synopsis. Retrieved July 30‚ 2010 from http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie-synopsis/a-beautiful-mind/ Pinel‚ J. P. J. (2007). Basics of biopsychology. Boston‚ MA: Allyn and Bacon.
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Depression Paper Mark Miles Psy/270 4/3/2011 Ratonya Bennett Depression Paper Unipolar and Bipolar Disorder Many people go through a normal day and have their emotions fluctuate due to some sort of stimuli. It is quite normal for people to feel emotions like depression or elation because of certain situations or circumstances. It is when moods like depression or mania that affect people for a longer than normal period of time or when they constantly fluctuate between depression and
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