Mental health articles
OF mental health care and mentally ill
December, 2013
Assessing Psychopathology Across Cultures
Assessing Psychopathology Across Cultures To study mental illness across cultures, one must first be able to identify and then classify mental illness in different cultural contexts (see later section for assessment in clinical treatment). This is one of the most challenging aspects of studying psychopathology across cultures. The most widely used nosological systems were developed […]
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mental disorders of variation across different
mental disorders of variation across different Types of Mental Disorders Marsella offers a slightly different perspective that accounts for variation among mental disorders. He proposes that the least cultural variation occurs in mental disorders that are the most biologically based, such as severe neurological disease, and the most cultural variation occurs in mental disorders that […]
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Biomedical Approach about mental disorders
Biomedical Approach about mental disorders In contrast, the biomedical perspective, shared primarily by mainstream psychiatrists and psychologists, views the cause of mental disorders as physical dysfunction, such as biochemical or anatomical defects. From this standpoint, internal symptoms are the defining aspects of mental illness. Culture may influence the content of specific symptoms (e.g., the religious […]
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Cultural Idioms of Distress
Cultural Idioms of Distress One prevailing viewpoint, the cultural idioms of distress perspective, posited by Arthur Kleinman, Byron Good, Janis Jenkins and other medical anthropologists, suggests that mental ill ness cannot be separated from its sociocultural context. As stated by Draguns, a particular symptom only becomes an indicator of distress in its ‘‘transaction with the […]
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The Schizoaffective Continuum
The Schizoaffective Continuum Although our diagnostic system treats schizophrenia and the affective disorders as unrelated diseases, there is a continuum from schizophrenia to affective disorders, patients with schizoaffective symptoms outnumber those with purely schizophrenic or purely affective symptoms. Crow concludes that ‘‘no objective genetic boundaries can be drawn’’ between predominantly affective and predominantly schizophrenic patients. […]
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positive and negative symptoms schizophrenia
Positive and Negative Symptoms of schizophrenia Strauss, Carpenter, & Bartko introduced the distinction between positive and negative symptoms, promoting awareness of an important aspect of heterogeneity in schizophrenia. Carpenter emphasized the challenge of this distinction to the conceptualization of schizophrenia. Positive symptoms are the presence of abnormal functioning, such as hallucinations and delusions, whereas negative […]
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Dopamine Hypothesis Catatonic Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia Dopamine Hypothesis The second major development in biological approaches to schizophrenia was the demonstration of at least some therapeutic benefit from neuroleptics or antipsychotic drugs in treating schizophrenia and the determination that it is positive rather than negative symptoms (see later for this distinction) that respond to these drugs. The therapeutic efficacy of antipsychotic […]
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Schizophrenia Genetic Studies
The massive literature on the genetics of schizophrenia can be assimilated into a multifactorial polygenic model but cannot be made to fit a singlemajor-locus model with high penetrance. There is no clear evidence against a simple multifactorial polygenic model, but Gottesman notes the possibility of a mixed model. This model includes a small number of […]
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Psychopath Signs and Symptoms
Psychopathic Personality Symptoms. The modern usage of the term psychopathy dates from Cleckley’s clinical descriptions. Two of the features, impulsivity and an absence of anxiety, have been the object of motivational hypotheses. Lykken demonstrated poor electrodermal conditioning and/or rapid extinction using electric shock as the unconditioned stimulus and proposed that the electrodermal hyporeactivity reflected low […]
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Mania Symptoms of and Symptoms
Mania The genetic contribution to mania is strong, underscoring the need to consider biological factors. Mania appears to fit nicely into the theoretical framework that employs appetitive and aversive motivational systems, as seen in Depue’s attempt to specify a biological substrate for mania within a neurobehavioral framework. With respect to motivational systems, the symptoms of […]
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