PSYC 100 Chapter Notes -Psychoactive Drug, Electroconvulsive Therapy, Neurogenesis
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In the past people with mental disorders were seen as prophets or spiritual leader, possessed by demons and evil spirits. Treatments was painful- trephining (drilling a hole in the skull for evil spirits to escape through), exorcisms, starvation, and beating, and death. Asylum movement-people with mental disorder would be put in to be isolated and sedated. No effort to help them or try to bring them back to society. Mental disorders often reflect abnormal brain function, and deregulation of neurotransmitter systems. Mental disorders can be treated by drug therapy, or psychological therapy, or both. Clinical interviews-through interviews conducted by trained professionals designed to elicit information on the client"s history and presenting symptoms. Can use questionnaires and other paper- or image-base tests. For suspected brain injury, medical imaging techniques used to locate specific damaged areas, such as eeg (electroencephalogram), cat scan (computerized axial tomography), mri or fmri scan (functional magnetic resonance imagining), or pet scan (position emission tomography)
