PY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Electroconvulsive Therapy, Autism Spectrum
11 Oct 2016
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People with personality disorders consistently behave i maladaptive ways. Show a more extreme level of maladaptive behavior and experience more personal distress and more problems as a result of their behavior. Impulsive: 80% have suicidal behaviors, more common in women, 1. 6% have bdp inn a given year. Antisocial personality disorder lack of empathy and remorse as much as 50% of prison population meets the criteria. Behave in socially undesirably ways they are usually charming and seem normal think they don"t feel fear. Adhd the current dsm has a category in axis 1 called disorders usually first diagnosed in infancy, childhood and adult hood. : restlessness. Kids with adhd more likely to come from bad home life: brain activity may be a cause in the basal ganglia. Autism: characterize by deflects in social interaction but impaired communication and be restrict interests.
