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Does Culture Influence the Expression of Symptoms?
Does Culture Influence the Expression of Symptoms? Both the biomedical and cultural idioms of distress perspectives acknowledge that culture may influence the expression of symptoms. For example, culture may influence the frequency with which specific symptoms are expressed. Biomedical perspectives view cultural differences in symptoms as peripheral aspects of universal syndromes. Cultural idioms of distress […]
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anxiety disorder characteristics and symptoms
Anxiety disorders are generally characterized by excessive worry and apprehension about the future. Specific anxiety disorders include obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, simple phobias, and posttraumatic stress disorder. Compared to schizophrenia and depression, we know little about the way culture influences anxiety disorders. This may be due to the rare occurrence of ‘‘pure’’ anxiety disorders. Because […]
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positive and negative symptoms schizophrenia
Positive and Negative Symptoms of schizophrenia Strauss, Carpenter, & Bartko introduced the distinction between positive and negative symptoms, promoting awareness of an important aspect of heterogeneity in schizophrenia. Carpenter emphasized the challenge of this distinction to the conceptualization of schizophrenia. Positive symptoms are the presence of abnormal functioning, such as hallucinations and delusions, whereas negative […]
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Psychopath Signs and Symptoms
Psychopathic Personality Symptoms. The modern usage of the term psychopathy dates from Cleckley’s clinical descriptions. Two of the features, impulsivity and an absence of anxiety, have been the object of motivational hypotheses. Lykken demonstrated poor electrodermal conditioning and/or rapid extinction using electric shock as the unconditioned stimulus and proposed that the electrodermal hyporeactivity reflected low […]
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Mania Symptoms of and Symptoms
Mania The genetic contribution to mania is strong, underscoring the need to consider biological factors. Mania appears to fit nicely into the theoretical framework that employs appetitive and aversive motivational systems, as seen in Depue’s attempt to specify a biological substrate for mania within a neurobehavioral framework. With respect to motivational systems, the symptoms of […]
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epilepsy attack symptoms
it has been recognized there occasionally occur conditions which stimulate attacks of real epilepsy. On close analysis, however, it is found that these attacks have only a superficial resemblance to epilepsy, and that they are purely functional in nature. In all probability such conditions represent certain types of dissociations of consciousness. These attacks are known […]
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Symptoms of Jealousy
The primary fear in jealousy is that you might lose something that you think is yours, or someone else has something that you think should be yours. Behind this feeling is a possibly some deep-seated anxiety, insecurity, or lack of confidence: there are probably also deep feelings of deprivation. To overcome these feelings the jealous […]
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Physical Symptoms Anxiety Disorders
Studies have shown considerable links between anxiety disorders and substance misuse, particularly alcohol, in terms of triggering feelings of anxiety but also as a form of self-medication.People with anxiety disorders may use alcohol or drugs to cope with their symptoms; however, alcohol and drug misuse may result in anxiety disorder. Links have also been shown […]
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Clonazepam Withdrawal Symptoms
BENZODIAZEPINES This group of drugs includes diazepam, temazepam, nitrazepam, all of which are prescribed drugs. If these drugs are obtained without a prescription, they come under class B of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, and if prepared for injection are classed as class A drugs. Benzodiazepines are depressants and prescribed to treat symptoms of […]
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Bulimia Nervosa Symptoms of Bulimia
Symptoms of bulimia nervosa had been discussed as long as medical records have existed; before its definition by the World Health Organization, it was seen as a gastric disorder. One case report of a young woman with bulimia nervosa was published by a Swiss psychiatrist in 1944; however, he had diagnosed schizophrenia. Bulimia nervosa was […]
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