Unit 4 Homework 5"

To help an adult client overcome fears of venturing out of his own home, Dr. Ricci plans to use behavior therapy in combination with drug therapy. Which of the following drugs would Dr. Ricci be most likely to prescribe?

Ativan

Of the following individuals, who is most likely to benefit from therapeutic drugs that block receptor sites for dopamine?

Betsy, who hears imaginary voices telling her she will soon be killed

Alex feels so hopeless and depressed that he has recently thought about taking his own life. The drug most likely to prove beneficial to him is

Prozac.

Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil are called

SSRIs.

Antidepressant drugs, a fresh perspective on his problems, and a strong therapeutic alliance all contributed to helping David recover from a major depressive disorder. An integrated understanding of David's recovery process is best provided by

a biopsychosocial approach.

Which drugs are designed to depress central nervous system activity?

antianxiety drugs

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation is administered to patients who ________, and it produces ________ memory loss than ECT.

are wide awake; less

Lithium has been found to be especially effective in the treatment of

bipolar disorder.

Which drug reduces overreactions to irrelevant stimuli in schizophrenia patients with positive symptoms?

chlorpromazine

Using implanted electrodes to inhibit activity in an area of the brain that triggers negative emotions is called

deep-brain stimulation.

An implanted electrode device that stimulates the vagus nerve has been used in the treatment of

depression.

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation shows greatest promise for the treatment of

depression.

The biomedical treatment most widely used today is

drug therapy.

Which of the following treatments is most likely to be used only with severely depressed patients who have not responded to drug therapy?

electroconvulsive therapy

Depakote, a drug originally used to treat epilepsy, more recently has been found to be effective in the control of

manic episodes.

Dual-action antidepressant drugs work by increasing the availability of

norepinephrine and serotonin.

The study of the effect of drugs on mind and behavior is called

psychopharmacology.

Antipsychotic drugs have proved helpful in the treatment of

schizophrenia.

Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil are called SSRIs because they

slow the normal reabsorption of excess serotonin from synapses.

Dr. Volz is a researcher who wants to distinguish between the direct effects of a new antianxiety medication and effects arising from expectations of the drug's effectiveness. Dr. Volz is most likely to use a method known as

the double-blind procedure

Antidepressant drugs have been found to be less effective than originally thought in large part because patient improvement often results from both natural recovery and

the placebo effect.