The Biological Approach To Explaining OCD

Question 1

How can OCD be caused?

Answer 1

Genetically or neurologically

Question 2

What is the genetic explanation?

Answer 2

Family studies have shown that genes are involved in an individual’s vulnerability to OCD

Question 3

What did Lewis 1936 find?

Answer 3

37% of ocd patients had parents with ocd

21% of ocd patients had siblings with ocd

Question 4

What is the diathesis stress model?

Answer 4

States that certain genes make a person more likely to suffer a mental disorder

Question 5

What are candidate genes?

Answer 5

Genes that create a vulnerability for ocd

Question 6

What are candidate genes associated with?

Answer 6

The regulating of development of seretoninergic systemic

Question 7

What does OCD being polygenic mean?

Answer 7

More than one single gene is involved with ocd

Question 8

What did Taylor 2013 do?

Answer 8

Analysed the findings of previous studies and found evidence that up to 230 genes may be involved in ocd

Question 9

What does ocd being aetiologically heterogenous mean?

Answer 9

The origin of ocd has different causes and different types of ocd could be a result of different genetic variations