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Principles of Human Neuropsychology
G. Dennis Rains, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Psychopathology

Chapter Objectives

After studying the materials in this chapter, you should:

Know the definition of psychopathology and its history.

Know the positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia and the possible etiologies of schizophrenia.

Understand the dopamine hypothesis and the structural correlates of schizophrenia.

Know the classifications of mood disorders and understand the possible etiologies for mood disorders.

Know the different anxiety disorders and their probable physiological mechanisms.

Understand Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's chorea, and Parkinson's disease.

Understand the problems with diagnostic classification of the psychopathologies.








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