Reference no: EM133476381
Case: In this video Dr. Thomas Insel, Director of the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH), discusses the future study of Schizophrenia through biomedical research. He presents evidence of the dramatic successes of biomedical research in the treatment of leukemia, heat disease, stroke, and AIDS and suggests that the best hope for progress in mental illness is through similar biomedical advances. Insel observes that the focus on mental illness and behavioral disorders should be shifted to the study of schizophrenia and other serious conditions as brain diseases.
Take notes while you watch the video and then answer the follow questions. 200 words minimum (be sure to answer each prompt).
Question 1: How does Insel differentiate the brain conditions underlying alzheimers disease and schizophrenia?
Question 2: What does Insel mean when he describes the human connectome?
Question 3: What does Judith Rappaort's work reveal about the loss of gray matter over time and how might this be relevant to considering the developmental trajectory for schizophrenia?
Question 4: What does Insel mean when he says that behavior is the last thing to change?
Question 5: Respond to this video with your own evaluation of Insel's notion that schizophrenia is better understood as a brain disease rather than a mental or behavioral disorder.