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Biological Contributions to obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
Biological Contributions to obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) In 1985, Turner, Beidel, and Nathan reviewed the available data that addressed biological factors in obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Included in the review were genetic and family studies, neurophysiological and neuropsychological studies, neuroanatomical studies, and biochemical and pharmacological studies. Turner et al. concluded that although biological factors correlated […]
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panic disorder biological perspective
There is a long history of research into biological aspects of panic disorder. Most of the evidence in humans has come from biological challenge procedures and pharmacological treatment and manipulation studies. More recently, evidence has accumulated from neuroimaging studies of people with panic attacks. A large number of chemical substances, it has been found, produce […]
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Biological factors of depression
Biological components of depression There are several internal (biological) sources of depression. Most common of these is a hormonal imbalance. This can be after giving birth (post natal depression), or during adolescence, or during the menopause (in both men and women). There are also some illnesses where depression is often a consequence, like glandular fever […]
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Biological Approaches To Defining Disorder
Early biologically-based accounts of disease claimed that a condition is a disease ifand only if it is statistically infrequent and reduces an organism’s life-expectancy orfertility. Some proponents of such an account have thought that it could work formental disorders as well as physical disorders. In a 1975 paper Robert Kendell usessuch a biologically-based account to […]
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