Psychology A-Level
biochemical explanation
What biochemical explanation means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of biochemical explanation
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An explanation of mental illness that treats it as having physical causes, supported by evidence that amphetamine, which raises dopamine activity, can produce psychotic symptoms and drugs blocking dopamine receptors reduce them.
Topics that use biochemical explanation
- Section A: Issues in mental health (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- behaviourist explanation
- brain abnormality
- defining abnormality
- drug treatment
- genetic explanation
- psychological therapies
- categorising mental disorders
- characteristics of disorders
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