Exam #4 - Biomedical Therapies
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After three days of taking a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), Dennis is disappointed because he is not feeling any better. However, it generally may take up to _____ week(s) for this type of antidepressant to reach full effect.
avoiding fatty acids
Agnes is a graduate student in psychology who suffers from depression. She has been on antidepressants for years with marginal effect. Instead of taking additional medication or undergoing brain stimulation, her therapist recently encouraged her to review Stephen Ilardi's research on therapeutic lifestyle change. Agnes noticed that those who went through the 12-week training program performed all of the following EXCEPT:
deep-brain stimulation
Edith suffers from depression. She has been using antidepressants for years with little effect. She has resisted her therapist's recommendations of undergoing ECT. More recently, though, her therapist has been mentioning a new procedure that calms the area of the brain normally overexcited in people who are depressed by exciting neurons. This procedure is known as:
1930s
Egas Moniz performed the first lobotomy in the:
lithium
Gerald suffers from bipolar disorder. He is likely to be prescribed _____ to combat mania.
impaired executive functions
Howard Dully was a victim of lobotomy at the age of 12. He has written a memoir about his experiences. How would one expect that lobotomy would have affected him?
increased anxiety
If a person routinely takes antianxiety medication for an extended period of time, what is the MOST debilitating symptom likely experienced if the person stops taking the drug?
tardive dyskinesia
Long-term use of antipsychotics can produce _____________, with involuntary movements of the facial muscles (such as grimacing), tongue, and limbs.
reducing mania; reducing depression
Mood-stabilizing drugs work more by _____ than _____.
ECT
Once seen as barbaric, this treatment is performed under controlled conditions using general anesthetic and muscle relaxant prior to treatment.
antidepressants are not universally effective
One concern mental health providers have about the dramatic increase in the prescription of antidepressant medication is:
community
Professionals who focus on preventing psychological disorders are called _____ psychologists.
double-blind procedure
neither the staff or subject know it is a placebo
posttraumatic growth
positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises
psychosurgery
surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior
repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation
the application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity
neurogenesis
the birth of new brain cells
resilience
the personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma
psychopharmacology
the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior
prozac
Which of the following drugs partially blocks the reabsorption and removal of serotonin from synapses?
electroconvulsive therapy
a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient.
lobotomy
a psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain
anti-anxiety drugs
drugs used to control anxiety and agitation
antidepressant drugs
drugs used to treat depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder. (Several widely used antidepressant drugs are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors—SSRIs.)
antipsychotic drugs
drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder
socially active
Barry, who plans to be a nurse, has a strong sense of purpose in life. Because of this trait, he is more likely to be _____.
