HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Baby Boom, Pharmaceutical Industry, Mood Disorder
1 Nov 2016
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Limits: normality may be an objective concept, issue of choice and personal responsibility (choosing to be sick) ex. Are we the sum of our psychological life: when should a person be treated, the lines between normality and abnormality. Premenstrual dysphoric disorder: five of the following during the week before: Emergence of hyperactivity: bradley home in rhode island. Painful procedure involving a spinal tap in neurological assessment of children. To combat headaches, one physician(charles bradley) gave children amphetamine. He noticed that the children given this, they were very attentive/behaving in class. After 30 years publishing ndings, there was no response. No one believed that there was a medical disorder that was needed to be xed (no demand for treatment) Hyperactivity is born: 1957, bradley home researchers publish hyperkinetic impulse disorder . Symptoms: hyperactivity, short attention span, irritability, impulsiveness, poor school work. All children prone to this behaviour more like normal children than severely disturbed.
