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Essay Exam 5

Essay Exam 5

Q Instructions Behavioral Neuroscience Exam #5 For each of these essays provide at least 500-word essay that integrates the materials across the chapter that we have covered. Focus on the essay topic and DO NOT give me list of definitions. That goal of the exam is to identify an underlying principle that connects all of the material you have just learned Essay #5 Psychological disorders are diagnosed by identifying behaviors that are abnormal and impede individuals' ability to succeed within their environment. In this essay, explain how these psychological disorders are the result of inefficiencies of the nervous system in interpreting and processing information from the environment. Don't give me a laundry list of inefficiencies associated with the many disorders covered in these two chapters but 3-4 common inefficiencies that are shared among the disorders. Make sure to explain these inefficiencies and how they lead to less than optimal behavior.

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Deficient or improper social behaviors, irrational, confused, or obsessional thoughts, inappropriate emotional reactions, such as despair, mania, or anxiety, as well as delusions and hallucinations, are all signs of psychological disorders. Recent studies suggest that many of these symptoms are brought on by structural and metabolic abnormalities in the brain. According to popular belief, parents who failed to properly raise their children were mostly to blame for the development of anxiety disorders, autism, and attention-deficit disorder (Carlson, 2013).. O