PSYC 370 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: American Psychiatric Association, Mental Disorder, Avolition

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 370
• Professor: Janet L Menard

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Introduction: psychiatric disorders- disorders of psychological function sufficiently severe to require treatment, diagnosis is guided by the dsm-5 (diagnostic and statistical manual of the american. Psychiatric association: two main difficulties in diagnosing particular disorders, patients suffering from the same disorder often display different symptoms, patients suffering from different disorders often display many of the same symptoms. Schizophrenia: severe psychiatric disorder, attacks about 1% of individuals typically beginning in adolescence or early adulthood. In 1960, it was reported that the striatum (caudate plus putamen) of persons dying of. Schizophrenia: current research and treatment: atypical antipsychotics, aka second-generation antipsychotics, often the drugs of choice for the treatment of schizophrenia, atypical antipsychotic drugs are effective against schizophrenia but do not bind strongly to d2 receptors. In adults, clinical depression is often comorbid with one or more other health conditions. Iproniazid, the first antidepressant drug, seemed to act against clinical depression. Iproniazid is a monoamine agonist; it increases the levels of monoamines (ex.