Common misconceptions about schizophrenia MYTH: Schizophrenia refers to a "split personality" or multiple personalities. FACT: Multiple personality disorder is a different and much less common disorder than schizophrenia. People with schizophrenia do not have split personalities. Rather‚ they are “split off” from reality. MYTH: Schizophrenia is a rare condition. FACT: Schizophrenia is not rare; the lifetime risk of developing schizophrenia is widely accepted to be around 1 in 100. MYTH: People
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disorders. Psychodynamic‚ humanistic‚ cognitive‚ and behavioral perspectives are all a part of this paradigm. The biological/medical perspectives focus on physical structures and biochemical functions which contribute to abnormal psychology. Abnormalities in the brain can be genetically inherited‚ caused by brain injuries‚ physical injury and could cause brain damage‚ and this in turn causes behavioral damage. The paradigm shift became the progress of scientific progress. Psychosocial‚ biological/medical
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evidence suggests that schizophrenia is a mental illness affecting 24 million people worldwide. This essay will define schizophrenia and its characteristic signs and symptoms in relation to cognition‚ mood‚ behaviour and psychosocial functioning. The criteria enabling a diagnosis of schizophrenia are explored‚ as well as contemporary nursing care and pharmacological treatments. The positive and negative signs and symptoms of schizophrenia will be discussed and the treatment and care requirements outlined
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Autism is a disorder of neural development characterized by impaired social interaction and verbal and non-verbal communication‚ and by restricted‚ repetitive or stereotyped behaviour. Autism affects information processing in the brain by altering how nerve cells and their synapses connect and organize; how this occurs is not well understood.[3] Autism is usually caused by genetic transfer‚ and in rare cases‚ autism is strongly associated with agents that cause birth defects.[6] Controversies surround
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1. Abnormal psychology is the study of: A) how abnormal behavior can be defined‚ classified‚ explained‚ and treated B) the abnormalities that exist within social and political organizations. C) the variations in normal thought content‚ behaviors‚ and emotions. D) how genes and the environment influence physical health and diseases. Ans: A Section reference: Abnormal psychology: The core concepts Difficulty level: easy Core concept: none Page reference: See page 3 of your text.
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Abnormal Psychology - Schizophrenia Introduction There are a number of problems with defining psychological abnormality. They include problems with cultural relativity and social norms‚ what is normal within one culture or society may be considered abnormal within another. There are also problems with statistics as some abnormalities have too few or too many statistics to compare and the statistics may not always be reliable. Under the medical model all psychological disorders are considered
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Instructor: Dominique Jeffery March 13th‚ 2013 In this paper I will be addressing the following questions: What are genes? How do genes of the two parents influence the traits of an offspring? What is Sickle Cell and who is at risk? How abnormalities can contribute to genetic and/or chromosomal disorders such as‚ sickle cell? Before I discuss genes‚ I have to tell what genes are. Genes are working subunits of DNA. DNA is a vast chemical information database that carries the complete set of
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Describe and evaluate biological explanations of schizophrenia (24 marks) Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder characterized by distorted thinking‚ impaired emotional responses‚ poor interpersonal skills and a distortion of reality. It is the most common of psychotic disorders that‚ in most countries around the world‚ affects around 1 per cent of the population. In terms of explanations for the disorder‚ two central types of explanations arise – psychological explanations and biological explanations
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The electrical activity of the heart: the electrocardiogram Electrical activity is a basic characteristic of the heart and is the stimulus for cardiac contraction. Disturbances of electrical function are common in heart disease. Their registration as an electrocardiogram (ECG) plays an essential role in the diagnosis and management of heart disorders. THE GENESIS OF THE ELECTROCARDIOGRAM Pathways of conduction and the electrocardiogram The sinus node is situated in the right atrium
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In today’s society‚ there is a wide range of perceptions of health status and wellbeing which can be viewed as either positive or negative. Therefore‚ the definitions of health status have evolved with time and seem to continue changing in the future. Different views and meanings of health status and wellbeing depend on the social class or where the family lives. A positive perception of health can be viewed as when an individual is more likely to sustain or achieve physical fitness from exercising
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