Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depressive disease or manic depressive psychosis, is a disorder characterized by unusual fluctuations in mood and ability to function of the person. To better understand the variability of mood, we can think of the thermostat of a house: the task of the thermostat is to keep the temperature stable and regular and to respond to changes in the surrounding environment. The limbic system of our brain represents the thermostat of the state of mind and is responsible...

Используем гугл-переводчик. Another Look at Schizophrenia Its Controversial Discovery The idea that schizophrenia spectrum disorders are based on an underlying biological cause that has yet to be discovered is known as the disease model, also called the medical model. As we now know, the discovery of schizophrenia and the estimate that it is a biological brain disorder, can be traced to Kraepelin and Bleuler. In this section the terms dementia praecox and schizophrenia will be used interchangeably. When Kraepelin and Bleuler were developing their disease model they were unaware that probably a...