Stress 17
Stress is the physiological response that occurs in response to physiological or psychological _____.
What are stressors?
The immune system has two components: the _____ immune system and the adaptive immune system.
What is innate?
Like patients with schizophrenia, patients with Tourette's are often prescribed these drugs.
What are anti-psychotics?
Clinical depression is sometimes called endogenous depression, while some related conditions with clear causes are known as exogenous or reactive depression. This kind of reactive depression is associated with pregnancy and birth.
What is peripartum depression?
Anxiety is most commonly treated with these kinds of anxiolytic drugs?
What are benzodiazepenes?
Segerstrom and Miller determined stress impacts the immune system by pooling together many different studies in this kind of analysis.
What is a meta-analysis?
Vaccination is effective because of the memory of this branch of the immune system.
What is the adaptive immune system?
Though schizophrenia and bipolar disorder share some common vulnerable genes, bipolar disorder is treated differently, usually with this class of drugs.
What are mood stabilizers?
This theory of depression states that depression results from underactivity of serontonin and norepinephrine.
What is the monoamine theory?
This neurotransmitter is most often implicated in anxiety disorders.
What is GABA?
Gastric ulcers are an example of these kinds of disorders which result from physical and psychological factors.
What are psychosomatic disorders?
T and B cells are both this kind of leukocyte.
What are lymphocytes?
One of the most noticeable structural brain changes in schizophrenia is this.
What is enlargement of the ventricles?
Large scale studies comparing antidepressants to placebos have shown that antidepressants only help about this percentage of patients.
What is 25%?
These are drugs for which the market is too small for them to be profitable.
What are orphan drugs?
This is the most commonly used measure of stress.
What is circulating glucocorticoids (cortisol)?
Due to the shortcomings of the DSM's categorical approach to diagnosis, the NIMH has developed this alternative for researching psychopathology.
What is the RDoC?
This theory states that early adverse experiences lead to the development of schizophrenia in genetically susceptible individuals.
What is the diathesis-stress theory?
A single injection of this hallucinogen can rapidly reduce depression.
What is ketamine?
The final phase of clinical trials generally use this procedure in which neither the experimenter nor participant knows if they are in the treatment or placebo/control group.
What is double-blind?
This is the term for "good" stress that improves health.
What is eustress?
These are the two main issues in diagnosing psychiatric disorders.
What are 1. patients with the same disorder have different symptoms and 2. symptoms for different disorders overlap?
The clinical effectiveness of typical antipsychotics depends on the degree to which they bind to these receptors.
What are D2 receptors?
Iproniazid is this kind of anti-depressant, which blocks the enzymes that break down monoamines.
What is MAO inhibitor?
This is the goal of phase two of clinical trials.
What is establishing the most effective doses and schedules of treatment?