Bipolar Disorder
What is mania and depression?
Seeing, hearing, tasting and smelling things that are not there versus thoughts that are false or not real.
What is the difference between hallucinations and delusions?
Four types of anxiety disorders.
What are specific phobias, generalized anxiety disorder, agoraphobia, panic disorder?
Drug initially used in the treatment of tuberculosis, it is an inhibitor and should not be taken with tyramine-rich foods (such as cheese, wine)
What is an MAOI (monoamine oxidase inhibitor)?
Opposite effects of substance.
What is the withdrawal effects of a substance?
Mood stabilizer that was found by accident through treatment of guinea pigs.
What is lithium?
This is current causal view of schizophrenia.
Clue= "express"
What is predisposition to schizophrenia?
Of two types of drug treatments used for anxiety disorders, this one involves neurotransmitter GABA-A and has possibility of addiction.
What are benzodiazepines?
Neurotransmitters connected with depressed mood.
What are serotonin and norepinephrine?
Occurs when use of one substance increases resistance in another substance
What is cross-tolerance?
SSRI's
What are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors?
This theory proposed a neurotransmitter contributed to schizophrenia. It was tested by Carlsson and Lindqvist in 1963.
What is the dopamine theory of schizophrenia?
Symptom of anxiety disorder that involves rapid heartbeat.
What is tachycardia?
Occurs together with other disorders.
What is comorbidity?
Routes of administration for heroin.
What is injection (heroin), inhaled (smoked), absorbed through mucus membrane (snorted)?
Parts of the brain affected by bipolar disorder
What are prefrontal cortex, left anterior cingulate, left superior temporal gyrus, certain prefrontal and hippocampus regions?
First drugs used by chance to treat schizophrenia. It's use was discovered by a French physician during 1950s.
What is chlorpromazine?
Parts of the brain affected by anxiety.
What are the amygdala, medial prefrontal cortex, hippocampus?
Known to block the reuptake of neurotransmitters associated with depression.
P.S-Sounds like a mode of transportation for children.
What are tricyclic antidepressants?
The more a substance is used, the quicker it leaves the body.
What is drug metabolism?
Occurs when a person fluctuates between mania and depression quickly and frequently throughout the year.
What is rapid cycling?
Names of two specific receptors involved in schizophrenia
What are D1, D2, or D4?
This drug classification is named for its ability to inhibit anxiety
What is an anxiolytic?
Two types of depressive disorders triggered by environmental factors
What are postpartum depression and seasonal affective disorder?
Theory stating addicts use to achieve pleasure not to avoid withdrawal.
What is positive-incentive theory of addiction?