Belovich- INTRO to Mental Health Flashcards
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Behaviors result from genetic, , and environmental influences integrated with psychosocial experiences
epigenetic
Mind (soul) - mediated higher mental functions (conscious experiences) and interacted with brain via the gland
pineal
Psychiatric symptoms may have or origins:
organic; functional
“Organic Disorders” are associated with a reason for the behavior
physiological
Physiological reasons for organic disordorders:
- Lesion/tumor
- Abnormal of brain region
- Neurotransmitters disrupted by disease state or drugs
- abnormalities (e.g., thyroid hormones)
- Sometimes associated with a genetic abnormality
size; Endocrine
What psychiatric disorders involve functional impairment, yet no physiological abnormality is observed
“Disorders of Function”
The “False Distinction” of Organic vs. Functional Disorders includes that Efficacy of pharmacological treatments implies underlying component
organic
Some psychiatric disorders fall into both categories of functional and organic:
Dementia/Alzheimer
Assumption: associated circuitry or mechanism not yet discovered can fall under the ““ Distinction” of Organic vs. Functional psychiatric Disorders
False
Mood changes (e.g., depression with dominant lesions, mood elevation with nondominant lesions) Difficulties with motivation, concentration, attention, orientation, and problem solving (dorsolateral convexity lesions) Difficulties with judgment, inhibitions, emotions, personality changes (orbitofrontal lesions) Inability to speak fluently (i.e., Broca aphasia [dominant lesions]) are associated with which lobe?
frontal lobe
Mood changes (e.g., depression with lesions, mood elevation with lesions)
dominant; nondominant
Difficulties with motivation, concentration, attention, orientation, and problem solving ( convexity lesions) of frontal lobe
dorsolateral
Difficulties with judgment, inhibitions, emotions, personality changes (l lesions) of frontal lobe
orbitofronta
Inability to speak fluently (i.e., Broca [dominant lesions]) of frontal lobe
aphasia;
Which lobe associated with Impaired memory Psychomotor seizures Changes in aggressive behavior Inability to understand language (i.e., Wernicke’s aphasia [dominant lesions])?
temporal lobe
Inability to understand language (i.e., aphasia [dominant lesions]) of frontal lobe
Wernicke’s
Lobe lession associated with Poor new learning; implicated specifically in Alzheimer’s disease?
Limbic lobes
syndrome (decreased aggression, increased sexual behavior, hyperorality)
Klüver-Bucy
Klüver-Bucy syndrome (decreased aggression, increased sexual behavior, hyperorality) associated with brain lesion where?
hippocampus
Decreased conditioned fear response Problems recognizing the meaningfulness of facial and vocal expressions of anger in others associated with which brain lesion where?
Amygdala
Impaired processing of visual–spatial information (e.g., cannot copy a simple line drawing or neglects the numbers on the left side when drawing a clock face [right-sided lesions]) Impaired processing of verbal information (e.g., cannot tell left from right, do simple math, name fingers, or write [Gerstmann’s syndrome, dominant lesions]) associated with brain lesion where?
parietal lobes
Impaired processing of verbal information (e.g., cannot tell left from right, do simple math, name fingers, or write [syndrome, dominant lesions]) lesion associated with parietal lobes
Gerstmann’s
Which lobe associated with Visual hallucinations and illusions Inability to identify camouflaged objects Blindness?
occipital lobes
A brain lesion where is associated with Hunger leading to obesity (ventromedial nucleus damage), loss of appetite leading to weight loss (lateral nucleus damage)
Effects on sexual activity and body temperature regulation?
hypothalamus
