Dear Writer,
I need your help with the assignment.
The task is to discuss the idea that psychiatric disorders are brain disorders. The purpose of the assignment is to critically evaluate biological research in psychology. As you can imagine, the assignment is a part of Biological Psychology, therefore, we need to argue from the perspective of Biological Psychology that psychiatric disorders are really brain disorders. In case you are not familiar with Biological Psychology, it is the study of the biology of behaviour; it focuses on the nervous system, hormones and genetics. Biological psychology examines the relationship between mind and body, neural mechanisms, and the influence of heredity on behaviour.
The assignment is referring to psychiatric disorders in general, but I would choose later in the essay specific disorders as an example (for example, schizophrenia and anxiety disorder or any other psychiatric disorder you may find material for). When you discuss a specific disorder, please find one or two empirical studies (experiments) to support the evidence.
Please pay attention to methodological and theoretical aspects of psychology, as well as the relevance of issues under discussion to a real-world context. For example, if we prove that schizophrenia is a brain disosrder, perhaps we should apply different treatment methods for the disease (psychopharmalogical for example).
So from the structure of the essay, I would start with how biological psychology contributed to the understanding of psychiatric disorders. Explain how there are different views on the topic whether the psychiatric diseases are brain diseases. Here you can use an example of “Banner. N. F. (2013) Mental disorders are not brain disorders. Journal of evaluation in clinical practice, 19, 509-513. ” who is obviously on the opposite side. Then you could deep dive into two examples (first schizophrenia and then anxiety disorder) to prove that there is evidence that psychiatric diseases are actually brain diseases. Here you can refer to neural pathways and biological markers, and which methodologies are used for research (such as brain images and so on). And after this, you can go to a conclusion.
The topic is very wide obviously, but it gives lots of room for creativity. So please also implement your ideas into the essay. The most important is that this is a critical review of the topic so all opinions should be presented. I am putting roughly 25 sources, but it can be more of course.
Thank you so very much!!
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