Brainy
fMRI and EEG are specific types of...
What are brain imaging tests?
Avoidance has shown to be a helpful coping mechanism for traumatic experiences that reduces the risk of developing PTSD - true or false
What is false?
What is Bipolar I?
Class of drugs that can be used for depression, anxiety, OCD, and PTSD
What are anti-depressants (e.g., SSRIs)?
Psychologist, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, social workers, and therapists are all types of...
What are mental health professionals?
Chemical substances that allow nerve impulses to reach the next neuron
What are neurotransmitters?
Name at last 1 social factor contributing to depression
What are childhood adversity, stressful life events, lack of social support, and family problems?
A disorder that includes repetitive behaviors or mental acts a person feels driven to perform in response to an obsession or according to rigid rules
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
CBT stands for...
What is cognitive behavioral therapy?
Comorbidity refers to...
What is the presence of a second diagnosis?
The hippocampus is responsible for...
What is memory?
The depressive cognitive triad, according to Beck’s cognitive theory of depression, is...
What is pessimistic views of self, world, and future?
A patient has recurrent episodes when her heart pounds, she sweats profusely, and she feels numb, short of breath, and shaky. She also fears that she is going to die. The most likely diagnosis for her is...
What is Panic Disorder?
The best treatment for phobias
What is exposure therapy with systematic desensitization?
Destructive beliefs and attitudes held by a society that are ascribed to groups considered different in some way
What is stigma?
The amygdala is responsible for emotional stimuli, it's activity level is elevated in...
What is mood disorders (i.e., depression and mania), anxiety disorders, and PTSD?
Name at least two personality or cognitive factors contributing to anxiety
What are behavioral inhibition (personality), neuroticism (personality), sustained negative beliefs about future (cognitive), belief that one lacks control over environment (cognitive), and attention to threat (cognitive)?
A chronic, milder form of bipolar disorder characterized by rapid mood cycling
What is Cyclothymic Disorder?
Exposure and prevention therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is...
What is exposure to situations that elicit obsessions (exposes person to full force of anxiety) and prevention from engaging in compulsive behaviors?
If the first factor of Mowrer’s two-factor model explains why you develop of fear of dogs, the second factor of the model explains...
What is why your dog phobia is maintained (a.k.a. does not go away)?
The fronto-striatal circuit is overactive in these disorders
What are Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, and Hoarding Disorder?
Term for the belief that thinking about something is as morally wrong as engaging in the action and that thinking about an event makes it more likely to occur
What is thought-action fusion?
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) requires symptoms to be present in four distinct categories, which are...
What are 1)Intrusion, 2)Avoidance, 3)Negative alterations in cognitions and mood, and 4)Arousal and reactivity?
Cognitive treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder seek to…
What is reduce overly negative interpretations about trauma and its meaning?
If the correlation coefficient (r) between two variables is zero, this means that...
What is there is no relationship between them?