Biological Causes for mental conditions

Question 1

What is general paresis?

Answer 1

Disease that deteriates physical and mental ability levels, producing delusions of grandeur and progressive paralysis

Question 2

Who developed the germ theory of disease?

Answer 2

Louis Pasteur

Question 3

What did Kraft Ebing (1897) do?

Answer 3

Inoculate general paresis with syphillis sores and indicated that patients did not get syphilis.

Question 4

What was this the first time of?

Answer 4

Causal link between infection, destruction of certain areas in the brain and a form of psychopathy

Question 5

What was Francis Galton interested in?

Answer 5

Inheritance of mental abilites

Question 6

What did he introduce?

Answer 6

Twin studies

Question 7

What were the twin studies?

Answer 7

Followed the development of twins raised in different environments.

Question 8

What did he conclude?

Answer 8

They had similar mental abilities

Question 9

What mental diseases were the twin studies used to address?

Answer 9

Depression, Schizophrenia.

Question 10

Identical twins show what?

Answer 10

Higher concordance of schizophrenia than non-twins.