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The drug classes, the brain-stimulation treatments, and what the evidence supports.
#psychology
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Lithium is prescribed chiefly for which disorder?
A medication plan targets delusions and hallucinations, the positive symptoms of a disorder. Which disorder is the antipsychotic chiefly treating?
Benzodiazepines such as Xanax are prescribed chiefly for symptoms in which disorder category?
SSRIs are a common biomedical treatment for which disorder?
Stimulant medications such as methylphenidate are most associated with treating which disorder?
Besides depression, SSRIs are often used in medication treatment for which disorder?
A person has recurring episodes of mania and depression, and a clinician prescribes a mood stabilizer. Which disorder is being targeted?
A medication blocks dopamine receptors and reduces hallucinations and delusions. What drug class is it?
A medication keeps the sending neuron from reabsorbing serotonin, so more serotonin stays in the synapse. What class is it?
A patient takes a drug that enhances GABA activity and quickly quiets overactive brain signals. What class fits this description?
A medication is used to even out swings into mania and depression rather than to create a quick calming effect. What class is this?
A medication increases dopamine and norepinephrine signaling to improve attention and impulse control in ADHD. What class is this?
In a drug trial, one group receives a look-alike pill with no active medication. What is that pill called?
A new antidepressant trial keeps both participants and the staff rating symptoms unaware of who got the real drug. What procedure is this?
A participant improves after an inactive pill because expectations reduce symptoms. What effect must the study control?
In a medication study, the nurse who measures side effects knows who got the real drug. What problem can double-blinding reduce?
ECT applies a brief electrical current to the brain under anesthesia to produce what therapeutic event?
Electroconvulsive therapy is currently used mainly for which condition when other treatments have not worked?
TMS treats some depression by using what physical method?
A clinic offers repeated pulses from a coil held against the scalp while the person remains awake and no seizure is intended. What procedure is this?
Psychosurgery refers to what type of biomedical treatment?
Compared with historic lobotomy, current psychosurgery is generally described as what?
Preventive mental health programs focus on which goal?
A community program builds social support, coping skills, and safe after-school spaces for all teens in a town. What approach is this?
Resilience in mental health refers to what ability?
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Attitudes, Persuasion and Cognitive Dissonance
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