Dysfunction

I feel like you have a misconception about what gender dysphoria is. Although it is listed in a book for mental disorders, it is not a disorder. The DSM-5 changed the term gender identity “disorder” to using the term “dysphoria,” which means that it is a dissatisfaction with life, and can accompany anxiety, depression, and other psychological issues, but it’s not a psychological problem in itself. Gender dysphoria is “distress that may accompany the incongruence between one’s experienced or…

According to Chen, “The face of family dysfunction, maladaptive self-views and dysfunctional world views contribute to poor problem solving, in turn evoking a sense of hopelessness and suicidal thoughts” (Chen 134). She also adds that, “When adolescents perceive their parents as too controlling…

percent of white Americans are diagnosed with schizophrenia. And could also be linked to being poor. Social labeling is when society labels a person “schizophrenic” when he or she doesn’t have what one might think is a “normal” behavior. Family dysfunction or family stress doesn’t help someone who has schizophrenia. A lot of times family’s that have a lot of stressful situations could be high in expressed emotions. This meaning that family members might express criticism, disapproval, and…

Doctors currently know why people can die from a broken heart. Rob Stein from The Washington Post reported that researchers have revealed that trauma “Can unleash a flood of stress hormones that can stun the heart causing sudden life threatening heart spasms in otherwise healthy people” (Study Suggests You Can Die of a Broken Heart 1). Rob Stein proclaims that stress hormones can alarm the heart, putting people’s lives at risk. According to Stein, the rush of stress hormones to the heart is…

treating the person for a specific illness or injury. In holistic medicine illness and injury are the result of disharmony between the three elements, mind-body-spirit, which are united as one. The break in harmony comes from dysfunction on one of these areas. But this dysfunction affects the whole person and not only one element. Conventional medicine views specific illness as problem with one part of the body that may possibly affect other areas if not…

Anxiety disorders are on the rise in our country, because of the multifarious etiological influences surrounding this mental illness, anxiety is often misdiagnosed: are we causing an anxiety epidemic? The interconnection of the biological, psychological and environmental influences of this disorder is often debated, questioning the true origin; is anxiety predetermined by our genetic makeup or do social and cognitive influences shape the severity of the disease. I believe all these factors play…

in the house or the motel all day every day, his only hobby is stuffing dead animals, and he ultimately kills people. It is not clear from the film as to why Norman developed this disorder, but from how demanding Mother is, it is likely due to dysfunction in the family during Norman’s childhood leading up to adulthood, or Freud’s Psychosexual theory that says if a child does not develop correctly in the first three stages of development then it causes damage to any further development into…

Other causes also involve chemical toxins, low serotonin levels, focal lesions to the temporal lobe, and serotonergic dysfunction. Not much research has been done with biological causation of ASPD; so, much remains unexplored. Since the gene for substance abuse is also related to ASPD, both are seen simultaneously. In the nurture aspect, childhood treatment affects the brain…

of the white matter of the brain and spinal chord. Multiple sclerosis affects the nervous system by damaging the nerve cell’s myelin, a process known as demyelination. Multiple sclerosis causes scattered demyelinated lesions causing neurologic dysfunction. The myelin is a lipoprotein complex formed of glial cells. The primary functions of the axonal myelin are increasing the speed of electrical impulses to the brain for interpretation and protection of the axon. The myelin sheath’s high…

behavior in mice.5 They also revealed a link between chronic 1-AR activation and reduced anxiety. Schizophrenia is associated with symptoms of psychosis, hallucinations, delusions, and various other symptoms. This disease has been correlated with dysfunction in the prefrontal cortex (PFC). Antipsychotic drugs, which are treatments for schizophrenia, are 1-AR antagonists. In Arsten’s study of cognitive deficits in schizophrenia, activation of secondary messenger, PKC, eventually led to PFC…