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health advisory Hospital Doctor Yu 2007-11-8 19:08:13

Need some suggestions for my psych class on this question.

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im taking psych 1010 right now, and what we learned is that if you can figure out how the mind and nervous system work we can help figure out why we as people do the things we do. like sudying the nervous system helps explain our reactions, emotions, and studying the parts of the brain helps us to know how we control our speech, motor skills, and many other things. it is kind of a building block for everything else. i hope this helps

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because you need to know that it is a real psychological problem that you patient has instead of being chemically unbalanced

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Well. your phyche has to reside somewhere, right? So that means that you have to have a physical anchor to your personality or psychology. That is what the brain and the rest of the nervous system would be.

It is fairly important to find out which area of the brain is responsible for critical thinking, memory, senses, and other information. This would allow you to determine if a particular syndrome is "physical" in nature, meaning caused by imbalances or trauma.

For example, we would have a certain chemical or hormone called endorphins. This is the natural painkiller. The absence of this substance could cause a person to become erratically angry or upset (sometimes to the point of rage).

Trying to analyze a person without looking at the possible brain/nervous disorders would provide only half the picture.

Although the actual connection of the personality to the nervous system has yet to be established (meaning the location of the soul or anima), it could prove useful someday.

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Every behavior, thought, dream, emotion, etc. is the result of a combination of excited and inhibited neurons in the brain.

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