Develop a mental model of the world.
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The marked disagreement over the DSM revision underscores the broader challenge in mental health: how to develop better ways to diagnose and treat conditions that are based on subjective symptoms with relatively limited tools and insight into the abnormalities in the brain.
Cognitive scientists and child psychologists have determined that children develop a complex conceptual structure, a sort of mental taxonomy of the world around them, which they use to order and define objects when they see them.
For example, up to a third of people who require long-term steroid treatment develop mood problems that may require someone knowledgeable about both the medical and mental health issues to determine whether it's best to cut back the steroids or add an antidepressant, Rabins said.
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The differences were linked to the mental alertness required to switch between languages, which could develop skills useful in other types of thinking.
The company offers a portfolio of mobile-based psychological fitness tools that help people develop mental and emotional strength and resilience to stress.
Further into the future, if scientists better understand the neural bases of mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, it could be possible to also develop treatments by targeting groups of neurons with electrical impulses.
The researchers also hope to learn from this Wellcome Trust-funded study, how mental disorders might develop.
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Research shows that one of the highest risk times for violence in people who develop a psychotic illness is their first episode -- the period right before they establish any record with the formal mental health care system.
The idea was that mental resources which would have been used for interaction and communication could be redeployed to develop expertise in some arbitrary task.
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