Mental Disorders Flashcards
Mental Disorders involve disturbances to what faculties?
cognition
emotion
behaviour
Mental Disorders involve dysregulations of what processes underlying mental and behavioral functioning?
psychological
developmental
biological
What are the Neurocognitive domains?
perceptual motor-function
learning and memory
executive function
complex attention
social cognition
language
Year of mental health act:
1983
purpose of Lab tests in mental disorder diagnosis:
to rule out other mental disorders
limitations of mental disorder self reports:
subjective
patients lack insight into the severity of their condition
disorders are co-occuring
commercial drug development
1950s onwards (started to be developed in the 1940s)
biomarkers in mental disorder research:
genomic
epigenomic
transcriptomic
proteomic
metabolomic
microbiome
mental disorder epidemiology is hard to determine due to the:
low self-report rates
stigma
changes to diagnostic criteria
biological causes of mental disorders:
chronic disease
pre- post natal
infection
physical injury
environmental causes of mental disorders:
trauma
stress
violence
neglect
heritability of general cognitive ability:
50%
heritability of schizophrenia vs generalised anxiety:
schizophrenia has higher heritability
genes associated with schizophrenia affect:
plasticity
glutamate release
dopamine metabolism
NMDAR regulation
diathesis stress model:
describes the contribution of genetic and environmental factors towards mental illness
does not include protective factors
