Mood Disorders
Disorder characterized by alternating periods of mania & depression.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
Individuals with this disorder experience general and persistent feelings of worry and anxiety. It is also known as "free-floating anxiety."
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
Schizophrenia has an estimated prevalence of this.
What is 1%?
Refers to a condition marked by a habitual pattern of willingly violating others' personal rights, with very little sign of empathy or remorse.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
The 4 things that define abnormality.
What are: Deviance, Distress, Dysfunction, Danger?
This disorder is characterized by feelings of sadness, worthlessness, social withdrawal, loss of desire to pursue previously enjoyed activities, insomnia, oversleeping, etc.
What is Depression?
This is a persistent and irrational fear of a particular object, activity, or situation.
What is a Specific Phobia?
Excessive levels of this neurotransmitter may contribute to schizophrenia symptoms.
What is Dopamine?
Approximately this percentage of patients have been diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder.
What is 1%.
This is commonly used to clinically diagnose psychological disorders.
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)?
This form of Bipolar Disorder is characterized by alternating periods of hypomania, and major depression.
What is Bipolar II Disorder?
People with this disorder have an intense fear of social or performance situations in which they may become embarrassed.
What is Social Anxiety Disorder?
These are common symptoms of schizophrenia.
What are hallucinations, delusions, dysfunctional thinking, agitated body movements, "flat affect", anhedonia (inability to feel pleasure)?
Marked by a pattern of distrust and suspiciousness such that others' motives rare interpreted as malevolent.
What is Paranoid Personality Disorder?
This disorder is typically characterized by low levels of serotonin.
What is Depression?
SSRI stands for ------.
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor.
This disorder presents with recurrent attacks of terror.
What is Panic Disorder?
This type of schizophrenia is the most common.
What is Paranoid Schizophrenia?
Characterized by excessive attention seeking and dramatic behavior.
What is Histrionic Personality Disorder?
This is the second-leading cause of death among college students.
What is suicide?
These are commonly used to treat Bipolar Disorder.
What are Mood-stabilizers?
People with this disorder feel overrun by recurring thoughts that cause anxiety or by the need to perform certain repetitive activities to reduce anxiety.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
This type of schizophrenia is characterized by motor rigidity, the inability to move or speak, and unusual posturing that can last for prolonged periods of time.
What is Catatonic Schizophrenia?
Characterized by intense extremes between positive and negative emotions, an unstable sense of self, impulsivity, and difficult social relationships.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
Rates of suicide are highest among this group.
What are middle-aged, white males?