BIOM30001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Bipolar Disorder, Mental Disorder, Public Health
16 Oct 2018
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Virtually everyone experiences or shows abnormal behaviour" at some point, even if only a minority display diagnosable" disorders such as anxiety, depression, and schizophrenia. Exceptionally gifted behaviour also deviates signi cantly from the norm e. g. high iq / gifted. How do we decide what is abnormal behaviour. A syndrome characterised by clinically signi cant disturbance in an individual"s cognition, emotion regulation or behaviour that is (assumed to) re ect a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying mental functioning. A disorder syndrome is usually associated with present distress (e. g. via a symptom), or a disability (e. g. work; social or other) Step 1 section 4(1) de nes "mental illness" as a medical condition that is characterised by a signi cant disturbance of thought, mood, perception or memory, subject to certain exceptions outlined in sub-section 4(2) Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm-5) Researched and produced by the american psychiatric association, currently 5th edition.
