Biology

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Biological psychology may be looked at as a hybrid of neuroscience and psychology. Practitioners of biological psychology may use their knowledge of the brain, from neurotransmitters to the cerebral cortex to treat their patients. Others may use this knowledge to search for biological causes for common mental illnesses, such as depression and schizophrenia.

Many psychologists focus largely on the mental processes of their patients. Biological psychologists work on the basis that there is an organic basis to mental processes, and that this requires them to understand the way that mental processes are instantiated in the brain. They recognize that treating the organic problem may be accomplished by talking as well as drugs.

In today's lab, I would like you to look at the following list of symptoms and/or incidents and reason out whether the cause of the dysfunction is biological or psychological. So long as your answer is supported with data, I will accept either.

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Hank is quite interested in this topic and listens closely and carefully to the lecture. When it comes time for him to present his suppositions, he says, "Bipolar Disorder (http://www.mental-health-matters.com/disorders/dis_details.php?disID=15") can be, in my opinion, conclusively determined to be of nuerobiological origins, due to two primary factors. First, major depressive disorders of all types, including bipolar depression, strongly tend to run in families. In fact, when screening for depressive disorders, clinicians always give extra weight to reports of depression in family members. Second, bipolar disorders are one of the few mental disorders that can almost always be 100% 'cured' with neurochemical medication, if taken on a regular basis."