Saturday, August 11, 2007

Psychology 8.1 video psychology

Psychopathology is the study of the origin, development, and manifestations of mental of behavioral disorders.
There has been a question about if alcoholism is genetic. I believe that it can be, maybe not in all cases but there is a chance that if your parents (either one) is an alcoholic or if members of their family have alcoholism then your chances are greater that you have the gene and could become and alcoholic.
There are people that do not believe this saying the alcoholism is learned behavior or is a disease but if you are born to an alcoholic parent (mother or father) you could have received that gene upon conception.
So then we are left with questions like are
  1. depression
  2. anxiety
  3. bipolar
  4. schzophrenia

genetically passed on to ones chilren? The answer is that sure it can be but we dont know for sure.

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