Biological Tradition Flashcards

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Father of Modern Western Medicine

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Hippocrates

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It is written between 450 and 350 BC, and mentions that psychological disorders could be treated like any other disease.

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Hippocratic Corpus

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They believed that psychological disorders might also be caused by brain pathology or head trauma.

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Hippocratic Corpus

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He created a powerful and influential school of thought within the biological tradition that extended into the 19th century

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Galen

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He is a Roman physician who developed the ideas of Hippocrates further.

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Galen

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What theory does this apply: Physicians believed that disease resulted from too much or too little of one of the humors.

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Humoral Theory of Disorder

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In the Humoral Theory of Disorder. this came from the heart.

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Blood

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In the Humoral Theory of Disorder, this came from the spleen.

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Black Bile

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In the Humoral Theory of Disorder, this came the brain.

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Phlegm

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In the Humoral Theory of Disorder, this came from the liver.

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Choler or Yellow Bile

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The four humors were related to the Greeks’ conception of the four basic qualities, namely: ___, ___, ___, and ___.

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Heat, Dryness, Moisture, Cold

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In the Humoral Theory of Disorder, people who tend to be ruddy in complexion, cheerful and optimistic are derived from ___.

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Sanguine

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In the Humoral Theory of Disorder, people who tend to be depressive are ___.

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Melancholic

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In the Humoral Theory of Disorder, people who tend to have apathy and sluggishness, but can also mean being calm under stress are ___.

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Phlegmatic

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In the Humoral Theory of Disorder, people who are hot tempered are known to be ___.

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Choleric

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As a treatment, carefully measured amount of blood was removed from the bloody, often with leeches.

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Bleeding

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As a treatment, ___ recommended eating tobacco and a half-boiled cabbage to ___,

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Robert Burton;
Induce Vomitting

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18
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Mental disorders were caused by blockages of ___ or the presence of ___, ___ (yin) as opposed to ___, ___
wind (yang)

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Wind;
Cold, dark
Warm, life-sustaining

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___ coined by Hippocrates, a concept he learned from the Egyptians, now we call the somatic symptom disorders.

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Hysteria

20
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This assumed that only women can have this disorder,
and that the uterus wandered to various parts of the body in search of conception, called ___.

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Wandering Uterus

21
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The cure for Hysteria is ___.

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Marriage or fumigation of the vagina

22
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Advanced ___ is caused by a brain-invading bacterial microorganism and it is also sexually transmitted disease.

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Syphilis

23
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___, ___, ___ are some of the symptoms of Syphilis.

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Delusions of grandeur;
Persecution;
Other strange actions

24
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___’s germ theory identified the bacteria causing syphilis around 1870.

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Louis Pasteur

25
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Injecting patients with ___ led to recovery by “burning out” the syphilis bacteria.

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Malaria-infected blood

26
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___ was later discovered to cure syphilis.

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Penicillin

27
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He was the champion of the biological tradition in the United States.

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John P. Grey

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He is the most influential Americal psychiatrist during the 19th century.

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John P. Grey

29
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Gray believed insanity was always due to ___ and that the mentally ill should be treated as ___.

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Physical causes;
Physically Ill

30
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___, ___ who is a Viennese physician, started utilizing higher dosages which caused patients to convulse and briefly go into a coma. This type of procedure is called ___.

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1927;
Manfred Sakel;
Insulin Shock Therapy

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In ___, ___ discovered that a light, minor electric shock to the head can generate a transient convulsion and memory loss (amnesia).

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1750s, Benjamin Franklin

32
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During the ___, ___, a Hungarian psychiatrist, found out that ___ was a remarkably uncommon condition in those who suffer from epilepsy, which eventually failed to be proven.

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1920s;
Joseph von Meduna;
Schizophrenia

33
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In ___, Two Italian physicians named ___ and ___, using ___ (a process that induces a short seizure using little
electrical current), treated a depressed patient with six little electrical shocks that caused convulsions.

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1938;
Ugo Cerletti;
Lucio Bini;
Electroconvulsive Therapy

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During the ___, the first effective drugs for severe psychotic disorders were developed in a systematic way.

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1950s

35
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___ (derived from ___), had been used as sedatives, a depressant drug, which gradually transmits signals between the brain and body.

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Opium;
Poppies

36
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___ (later renamed ___) and ___ (___), control agitation and aggressiveness.

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Rauwo lfia Serpentine;
Reserpine;
Neuroleptics;
Major Tranquilizers

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___ (___) (known by such brand names as Valium and Librium) lessens/ reduces anxiety and became the most widely prescribed drugs in the world during the 1970s.

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Benzodiazepines;
Minor tranquilizers

38
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___, a class of sedating drugs, which reported to be effective for treating anxiety and other psychological and emotional symptoms, disappeared after showing side effects of various undesirable physical symptoms.

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Bromides

39
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___ shows the aftermath of chronic tremors and shaking.

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Neuroleptics

40
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He is an advocate of biological tradition, less involved in treatment, more focused on diagnosis and classification.

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Emil Kraepelin

41
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Kraepelin recognized differences in ___, ___, and ___ among psychological disorders.

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Age of Onset;
Time Course;
Cluster Symptoms

42
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Kraepelin’s description of ___ remain relevant today.

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Schizophrenic disorders

43
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By the ___, a scientific approach to psychological disorders emerged, seeking biological causes.

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Late 1800s