Is this psychology text correct?
In one of the psychology books of mind it goes on to say some one with a very high sex drive the cause could be temporal lobe or androggens!!! None of the other psychology books said that.
I thought it was imbalance of dopamine, seratonin, GABA, epinephrine, norepinephrine, adrenalin or noradrenalin.
You’d need to quote the text for a little better context, but generally it sounds correct to me.
Temporal lobe disfunctions often result in hypersexuality (e.g. Klüver–Bucy syndrome) or decreased sex drive (e.g. epilepsy)
You can’t diagnose anyone or state an absolute cause for any effects of any condition using only textbooks. The answer is “it all depends…”
A better way to look at it is say your car is one of the newer models with 30 computers inside it. And it wasn’t made by humans and there’s no diagnostic codes. The vehicle is acting up. It’s not really helpful to say “too much electricity” or “too much traffic messages on this bus connector over here”. All we can really get from a living human is to check the fluids, and in some of those fluids you can detect hormones like testosterone, etc. But that barely tells you anything.
If you were a mechanic and one of the signal buses had a higher voltage than normal, that doesn’t mean you can fix it by just forcing the voltage back down with a shunt. You could easily do more damage than leaving it alone.
This, alas, is the actual state of useful clinical psychology/psychiatry in most cases. Mostly ignorance. Yeah, if the problems are severe enough, doctors know how to restrain a person with drugs or lock them up so they can’t kill themselves. And maybe forcing serotonin levels will help for severe cases, in the same way you can maybe jump start a car even if there’s an underlying electrical problem. And while modern medicine can’t actually do much to help, there’s textbooks full of failures that are common and they can at least identify them and give them a nice long latin name - even if they can do fuck all about the problem. Imagine if you had a priesthood of mechanics who could identify each engine error by error, but didn’t have any way to actually take apart and fix a car. That’s kind of what we have.
Unfortunately, the technical ability to fix the human brain would basically be post-singularity tech. If you knew enough and had the nanotechnology to manipulate a living brain accurately and correctly, you’d be able to easily make artificial brains that dwarf human brains in performance and longevity.
Are you saying damage to the Temporal lobe? If it is Temporal lobe does it have to be Klüver–Bucy syndrome?
Was there some thing in news back than about some one got into a car accident, got hit on head or injury to head and got very high sex drive or low sex drive or some thing?
Has there been cases?
Had a GF who was a sex addict and in her case she was also bipolar which is a common cause.
It all depends.
Unfortunately the texbook does not say any thing about temporal lobe or androggens other than could be cause of hypersexuality.
That is what I’m confuse about. And to make worse the other texbooks don’t even talk about temporal lobe or androggens as could be cause.
Well obviously doctor would have to diagnose it and run tests to see if it is temporal lobe, androggens or imbalance of dopamine, seratonin, GABA, epinephrine, norepinephrine, adrenalin or noradrenalin or some thing else.
But it just I’m confuse by the texbook not saying any thing about temporal lobe or androggens other than could be cause.
Is there a reason you’re not naming the textbook?
Why would you assume a single text book would detail everything? Psych101 will not talk about everything that you’ll find in Psych331