CHAPTER 2: INTEGRATIVE APPROACH OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY Flashcards
One dimensional Model vs. Multidimensional Model
OMM - one causality
MDM - several models or systematic look for the causality
It is a cause of fainting in Blood Injection Injury based on Judy’s case
Vasovagal Syncope
Syncope means “sinking feeling”
It is the cause of vasovagal syncope that changes the blood
Sinoaortic Baroreflex
A type of influence that affects the physiological responses in heart rate, respiration and blood pressure
Emotional influence
It is a long molecules of DNA at various location in chromosomes within nucleus
Genes
It is a degenerative brain disease at middle age
Hungtington’s disease
What is the cause of Hungtington’s disease
It is due to deterioration of basal ganglia
It is disorder which has the lower number of phenylalanine that result to intellectual disability (mental retardation)
PKU or Phenylketonuria
What is the cause of PKU?
Defect in one gene that create the enzyme for phenylalanine
How many chromosomes a normal person has?
46 chromosomes
How many chromosomes are responsible for developing the physical parts like brain and heart?
20 pairs
How many pairs of chromosomes is for the identifying the sex?
The last pair
X chromosome is for ____
female
Y chromosome is for _____
Male
It is a strong influence trait
Dominant gene
It is not a strong trait
Recessive gene
It is one whose phenotype is influenced by more than one gene
Polygenic
It is a complete set of genes
Genome
How many approximately genomes does a person has?
20,000 genes
It is sums up all the tiny effects across many genes without telling us exact genes causes it
Quantitative genetics
It examines actual structure of genes
Molecular genetics
What is diathesis stress model?
A tendency to express a certain trait or behavior may be activated under conditions of stress
Using a Diathesis Stress Model, how do you conclude that a person is susceptible to have a disorder?
A higher vulnerability facing a low life stress events can lead to disorder
A lower vulnerability facing a high life stress events can lead to disorder
Using the alleles, how do you say that a person can cope or not a stressful situation?
If a person has long alleles (LL) it means that it has a higher chance to cope stress.
However, if a person has short alleles (SS) it has lower chance to cope stress.
What is Gene- Environment Correlation Model?
A tendency that a person is genetically determined to create the very environment risk factors that triggers a genetic vulnerability
Other name for Genetic- Environment Correlation Model?
Reciprocal gene-environment model
What is cross-fostering?
A maternal behavior affects the stress reactivity of the offspring in an environment
It is the study of how your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work.
Epigenetics
It is how the brain understand the behavior, emotions and cognitive process
Neuroscience
What are the parts of central nervous system?
Brain and spinal cord
What are two types of peripheral nervous system?
ANS and SNS
It transmits information throughout the N.S
Neurons
How many number of neurons do we all have?
140 billions
It receives message from other nerve cells
Dendrites
It transmit impulses to other neurons
Axon
A space between axon and dendrite
Synaptic cleft
It is a biochemical released from axon and transmit impulse to the dendrite receptor
Neurotransmitter
It is passive cell, connect and insulate neurons, and modulate the neurotransmitters activities
Glia or Glial cells
A lower level of this neurotransmitter leads to excessive anxiety
GABA
A lower level of these neurotransmitters lead to depression
Norepinephrine and serotonin
A higher level of this neurotransmitter leads to schizophrenia
Dopamine
It handles most ANS functions like breathing, sleeping and moving in coordinated way
Brainstem
It controls motor coordination, a problem to this leads to ASD
Cerebellum
It is located in the brainstem that coordinates movement of sensory input and contain RAS (reticular activating system)
Midbrain
What is RAS?
Reticular Activating System is for arousal and tension, being awake or sleep
It relay motor and sensory signals to the cerebral cortex
Thalamus
It is for releasing hormones and regulating body temperature.
Hypothalamus
It is the lowest part of the brain that contains the medulla, pons and cerebellum
Hindbrain
It regulates many automatic activities like breathing, pumping action of the heart (heartbeat) and digestion
Hindbrain
Abnormality in this part of this brain is associated with ASD
Cerebellum
What are two parts that located at the top of brainstem
Thalamus and Hypothalamus
It is at the base of the forebrain that is above the the thalamus at hypothalamus
Limbic system
What is the meaning of limbic? Why it is called limbic system?
It means “border” that means located at the edge of the center of the brain
What are the four parts of the limbic system?
What are their shapes?
(HCSA) Hippocampus - seahorse Cingulate gyrus - girdle Septum - partition Amygdala - almond
What is the purpose of limbic system?
- It regulates our emotional experiences
2. Ability to learn and control our impulses that involved basic drives (hunger, thirst, sex and aggression)
It is at the base of the forebrain that has caudate (tailed) nucleus. The damages on their structures lead to change of posture or twitch or shake
Basal ganglia
It is the largers part of the forebrain that has 80% of neuron in the CNS
Cerebral cortex
This part allows us to look to the future and plan, to reason, and to create
Cerebral Cortex
What are the two parts of cerebral cortex?
Right and Left Hemisphere
Left Hemisphere vs Right Hemisphere
Left - cognitive and verbal
Right - perceiving around us and creating images
What are the four lobes?
(FPOT) Frontal Parietal Occipital Temporal
A lobe that is for hearing and for sights, and with long term memory storage
Temporal lobe
A lobe that is for sensation of touch and monitoring body positioning
Parietal lobe
A lobe that is for visual inputs
Occipital lobe
A lobe that is for higher level of functions such as thinking and reasoning, planning for the future and long term memory
Frontal (prefrontal cortex)
What are the two branches of Peripheral Nervous System?
ANS and SNS
A part of PNS which is controls the muscles and voluntary movement, a damage to this part leads to difficulty in speaking
SNS
What are two subgroups of ANS?
Sympathetic and parasympathetic