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Functions of the Brain
~Monitor changes in the External World
~Monitor the composition of body fluids
~Regulate contractions of the skeletal muscles
~Regulate the internal organs
~Initiate and regulate the basic drives: hunger, thirst, sex, aggressive self protection
~Mediate conscious sensation
~Store and retrieve memories
~Regulate mood (affect) and emotions
~Think and perform intellectual functions
~Regulate the sleep cycle
~Produce and interpret language
~Process visual and auditory data
Monoamine transmitters
norepinephrine, dopamine, serotonin, histamine
Destructive enzyme:
monoamine oxidase (MAO)
Effects of Dopamine and association with mental health
Fine muscle movement, integration of emotions and thoughts, decision making, stimulates hypothalamus to release hormones (sex, thyroid, adrenal)
Decrease: Parkinson's, Depression
Increase: Schizophrenia, Mania
Effects of Norepinephrine (NE) and association with mental health
Level in brain affects mood, stimulates sympathetic ANS (fight or flight)
Decrease: Depression
Increase: Mania, Anxiety, Schizophrenia
Effects of serotonin (5-HT) and association with mental health
role in sleep regulation, hunger, mood, and pain perception. role in aggression and sexual behavior.
Decrease: Depression
Increase Anxiety states
Effects of histamine and association with mental health
Involved in alertness, inflammatory response, stimulates gastric secretion
Decrease: Depression, sedation, weight gain
Effects of Acetylcholine [cholinergic (ACh)] and association with mental health
Plays a role in learning, memory, regulates mood: mania, sexual aggression. Affects sexual and aggressive behavior.Stimulates parasympathetic ANS.
Decrease: Alzheimer's, Huntington's chorea, Parkinson's.
Increase: Depression
Caplan's Four Phases of Crisis:
Phase One
Phase 1
Conflict or problem that threatens the self-concept. Increased anxiety stimulates the use of problem solving techniques and defense mechanisms
Caplan's Four Phases of Crisis:
Phase Two
Usual defensive response fails and threat persists. Anxiety rises and produces extreme discomfort. Individual functioning becomes disorganized. Trial and error attempts at solving the problem.
Caplan's Four Phases of Crisis:
Phase Three
Trial and error fails. Anxiety escalates to severe and panic levels. Automatic relief behaviors such as withdrawal and flight. May compromise needs or redefine situation to reach an acceptable solution.
Caplan's Four Phases of Crisis:
Phase Four
Problem not solved and coping skills ineffective. Overwhelmed by anxiety, leads to personality disorganization, confusion, violence, or suicidal behavior.
Treatment focus:
Internal Experience
Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Treatment focus:
Interpersonal relationships and social supports
Interpersonal Psychotherapy
Treatment focus:
Thoughts and cognitions
Cognitive psychotherapy
Freud's Psychosexual Stages of Development
Oral(0-1yr):
Anal(1-3yr)
Phallic, Oedipal, (3-6yr)
Latency (6-12yr)
Genital (12yr and beyond)
Describe Freud's Psychosexual Stage of Development:
Oral (0-1yr)
Satisfaction: sucking. Conflict: weaning Task:beginning of ego
development. Desired Outcome: trust in environment Knows needs can be met Fixated Trait: passivity, gullibility, dependence. Sarcasm, orally focused habits, ie smoking.
Describe Freud's Psychosexual Stage of Development:
Anal (1-3yr)
Satisfaction: expulsion and retention of feces. Conflict: Toilet training. Task: ability to delay immediate gratification. Desired Outcome: Control over impulse. Fixated Trait: Anal retentive: stingy, OCD, or anal expulsive: messy, destructive.
Describe Freud's Psychosexual Stages of Development:
Phallic (oedipal) (3-6 yr)
Satisfaction: Genitals (masturbation)
Conflict: Oedipus/Electra
Task: Sexual ID with parent of same sex, beginning of superego development.
Desired outcome: ID with parent of same sex. Fixated: Difficulty with sexual Identity and authority figures.
Describe Freud's Psychosexual Stages of Development:
Latency (6-12 yr)
Satisfaction: - Conflict: - Task: growth of ego functions (ability to care about others outside home) Desired Outcome: Development of skills needed to cope with the environment. Fixation: sense of inferiority,unable to identify with others.
Describe Freud's Psychosexual Stages of Development:
Genital (12yr and beyond)
Satisfaction: intercourse. Conflict: - Task: development of satisfying relationships. Desired Outcome: creativity and pleasure in work and life. Fixation: Inability to become emotionally and financially dependent. Inability to form satisfying relationships.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
1. Physiologic
2. Safety and Security
3. Love and Belonging
4. Self Esteem
5. Self Actualization
First Gen Anti-Psychotics
D2 blockers:
phenothiazines, thioxanthenes, butyrophenones
Anti psychotic effect
Extra-Pyramidal Side effects
Increased prolactin, amenorrhea, male gynecomastia, inability to ejaculate.
Orthostatic Hypotension