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Study Questions - Mood Disorder & Schizophrenia

    There is a pleasure sure,. In being mad,. which none but madmen know.
- John Dryden.

   1. A teenager is arrested by police for maliciously breaking car windows. How would you determine if this teenager is a potential psychopath?

   2. Why do you think that drugs are more effective than psychotherapy in treating schizophrenia?

   3. How would you decide whether someone really has dissociative fugue or is just faking it to avoid dealing with stressful life events?

   4. What differences in our cultural gender roles contribute to men's reporting significantly more alcohol abuse than women do?

   5. How might a brain image of a person with a mental disorder differ from an image of a person without a mental disorder?

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Robert C. Gates
 
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. -- Freud