PSYC 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Paresis, Psychopathology, Syphilis
13 Mar 2018
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The fact that many different risk factors can result in the same negative outcome is called. The fact that any given risk factor (e. g. , early life trauma) can increase the risk for multiple bad outcomes is called: True false: below are two statements about genetic risk for psychopathology: Risk for psychopathology is significantly heritable for many psychological disorders. The effect of individual genetic variants in terms of increasing risk is very small. Can vary though, like huntington"s whose allele is dominant. For psychiatric disorders, individual variants have little penetrance. The connection between syphilis and general paresis of the insane was a watershed moment in the development of the biological tradition because (select all that. It suggested that medical treatment could treat mental conditions. It provided a clear connection between abnormal behavior and a well-defined. It was the first use of anti-malarial drugs to treat mental disorders, and anti- malarial drugs have been widely used in mental health treatment ever since.
