PSY BEH 11C Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Mental Disorder, Biopsychosocial Model, Fluoxetine
4 Mar 2017
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The medical model believes that symptoms are biological in nature: brain diseases with genetic basis and chemical dysfunction. We are machines and our machines are not tuned very well: treatment involves medicine to correct. Mode of action for ssri antidepressants (e. g. zoloft, prozac) Prozac blocks normal reuptake of the neurotransmitter serotonin: excess serotonin in synapse enhances its mood-lifting. Diathesis-stress model effect: biopsychosocial model, predisposition that is expressed only if stress triggers it. Biological (genes, chemistry), psychological (stress, trauma), and sociocultural (roles, expectations) They combine together to create mental disorders. This is what america does to you. Lifetime prevalence of cidi disorders in fresno and national. Comorbidity study (ncs) by vega et al. (1998) Any disorders: this model has more support for the vast majority of disorders. Correlates a(cid:374)d risk factors (cid:374)ecessarily causes: bio . Serotonin can sometimes help people who have depression feel better: psychosocial . Making inferences about how psychosocial factors bring about disorders.
