Studies
Dissociative Disorders
Mood Disorders
Anxiety/Trauma/Stress Disorders
Treatment/Therapy
100
To evaluate the causal effects of depression on obesity, longitudinal tests of the effect of depression on follow-up obesity status were meta-analyzed in this study, which concluded that people with depression are more prone to becoming obese.
What is Blaine's experiment/"Does Depression Cause Obesity"?
100
Characterized by the presence of more than one identity, formerly known as multiple personality disorder.
What is dissociative identity disorder (DID)?
100
John has this disorder which causes unusual shift in moods, energy and activity levels. Sometimes he has an extremely elevated behavior and other times he is “down.”
What is bipolar disorder?
100
This is a normal human response to becoming nervous from something uncertain.
What is anxiety?
100
Those who practice this therapy tend to look more at specific, learned behaviors and how the environment influences those behaviors. Those who practice this therapy are called behaviorists.
What is behavior therapy
200
These meta-analytic results from 12 published twin studies of schizophrenia are consistent with a view of schizophrenia as a complex trait that results from genetic and environmental etiological influences.
What is Sullivan's experiment/"Schizophrenia as a Complex Trait"?
200
Developed usually as a way to deal with trauma, especially during childhood.
What are the causes of dissociative disorders?
200
This is the term for a less severe type of bipolar disorder characterized by depressive and hypomanic episodes.
What is bipolar II disorder?
200
This disorder deals with a terrible past experience that causes the patient to be triggered by certain events in the present that send them back to the past.
What is post-traumatic stress disorder?
200
This therapy is based on the cognitive model, which states that thoughts, feelings and behavior are all connected, and that individuals can move toward overcoming difficulties and meeting their goals by identifying and changing unhelpful or inaccurate thinking, problematic behavior, and distressing emotional responses.
What is Cognitive therapy
300
This study compared 7 patients with panic disorder who had been off medication for at least 6 months and who had never abused alcohol with 8 healthy controls, finding that there is a reduction in benzodiazepine site binding in patients with panic disorder.
What is the Malitza study/"Decreased Brain GABAA-Benzodiazepine Receptor Binding in Panic Disorder"?
300
Difficulty remembering one's own identity or information about oneself due to dissociative disorders.
What is dissociative amnesia?
300
Distortion of thinking such as “blowing” negative events out of proportion and minimizing positive events.
What are the behaviors of someone with a mood disorder?
300
This disorder deals with uncontrollable and repetitive behavior.
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder?
300
is a form of behavior therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy designed to treat post-traumatic stress disorder, characterized by re-experiencing the traumatic event through remembering it and engaging with, rather than avoiding, reminders of the trauma (triggers).
What is Prolonged exposure therapy
400
This study found that major damage to gray and white matter in the prefrontal cortex and autonomic deficits have been found to result in pseudopsychopathic personality in patients with neurological disorders.
What is Raine's study/"Reduced Prefrontal Gray Matter Volume and Reduced Autonomic Activity in Antisocial Personality Disorder"?
400
Characterized by detachment from one's own feelings, actions, thoughts, or the surrounding or feeling that the world/situation they are in is unreal.
What is depersonalization disorder?
400
A more persistent but less severe depressive disorder than major depressive disorder.
What is dysthymia?
400
Chest pain and spiked heart rate are symptoms of this kind of attack which interferes with a person's daily abilities.
What is a panic attack/anxiety attack?
400
A form of talk-psychotherapy developed by psychologist Carl Rogers in the 1940s and 1950s. Was created to provide clients with an opportunity to develop a sense of self where they can realize how their attitudes, feelings and behavior are being negatively affected.
What is Person-centered therapy
500
This study compared current dissociative symptoms and dissociation at the time of specific traumatic events in Vietnam combat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and Vietnam combat veterans without PTSD, discovering that there was a significantly higher level of dissociative symptoms, as measured by the Dissociative Experiences Scale, in patients with PTSD than in patients without PTSD.
What is the Bremner experiment/"Dissociation and posttraumatic stress disorder in Vietnam combat veterans"?
500
A spontaneous flight or leave away from home as a reaction to loss of information about oneself, could be due to confusion about one's personality or identity.
What is dissociative fugue?
500
The most common of the diagnosed disorders of mood and is 1.5 to 3 times more likely in women as it is in men.
What is major depressive disorder?
500
This is the name for an irrational fear of places and situations that might cause panic, helplessness, or embarrassment.
What is agoraphobia?
500
A set of psychological and psychotherapeutic theories and associated techniques, created by Austrian physician Sigmund Freud.
What is Psychoanalysis
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