Psychology Module 46- The Biomedical Therapies and Preventing Psychological Disorders

_____ is a type of treatment that physically changes the brain's functioning.

Biomedical therapy

This medication was originally used to treat epilepsy and is also found effective in the control of manic episodes associated with bipolar disorder.

Depakote

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 socially active.

Edith suffers from depression. She has been using antidepressants for years with little effect. She has resisted her therapist's recommendations of undergoing electroconvulsive therapy. 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:

deep brain stimulation.

For patients whose depression has resisted drugs as well as electroconvulsive therapy, neuroscientist Helen Mayberg has developed a new treatment known as:

deep brain stimulation.

This treatment was originally performed without a general anesthetic and muscle relaxant prior to treatment.

electroconvulsive therapy

John, a professor, spends a good amount of time outside. Based on the textbook's discussion of therapeutic lifestyle change, John is likely to have good mental health as a result, because time outside affects:

exposure to sunlight.

Psychosurgery is NOT used to treat:

posttraumatic stress disorder.

If a patient suffers uncontrollable seizures, physicians can destroy specific nerve clusters that cause or transmit the convulsions. This BEST illustrates a procedure known as:

psychosurgery

The biopsychosocial approach relies on the perspective that:

changing one's lifestyle will change one's internal experience.

A _____ psychologist is MOST likely involved in preventive mental health initiatives.

community

Alberto struggles with anxiety. His friend, Miguel, encourages him to deal with the problem by taking a Xanax. What is a possible argument against this advice?

While drugs reduce symptoms in the moment, they do not address the source of the problem.

If Roxanne, who suffers from episodic depression, wants to have the best long-term improvement, which lifestyle change would be the LEAST effective?

aromatherapy

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 research on therapeutic lifestyle change. Agnes noticed that those who went through the 12-week training program performed all of these EXCEPT:

avoiding omega-3 fatty acids.

One of the lingering misconceptions about electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is that, when first introduced, it was used ubiquitously for people with mental illness. Research over time has shown that this treatment is very effective but only for people with:

severe depression.