Clinical Disorders
Persistent sadness and mood disturbance followed by lack of motivation and loss of interest in activities
What is Depression?
Significant limitations in mental ability, like problem solving and adaptive behaviors, such as social skills/cues
What is Intellectual Disability?
Chronic metabolic disorder characterized by high blood sugar
What is diabetes?
SSRI stands for
What is Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors?
With schizophrenia, this type of symptom is the absence of activity.
What is negative?
Excessive, uncontrollable worry and fear about things that are out of your control
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
Characterized as avoiding social interactions and failure to conform to societal norms
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
Injury to the brain caused by an external force, such as a blow, bump, hit, or fall to the head.
What is Traumatic Brain Injury?
A self help group who try to abstain from alcohol and help others do the same.
What is Alcoholics Anonymous?
When people are so disordered that they do not now what they are doing
What is the Insanity Defense?
Recurrent and consistent unwanted thoughts, urges, and repetitive behaviors that are time-consuming and cause distress in daily life to suppress or neutralize
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
Inflated self-image and disregard for others' feelings or the impact of one's decisions on other people
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
Characterized by the uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells
What is cancer?
A brief electrical shock is administered across the patient's head usually used for epilepsy
What is Electroconvulsive Shock Therapy (ECT)?
Alcoholism characterized by an early onset with more severe symptoms and a strong genetic base.
What is Type II/Type B?
Exposure to a disturbing/ scarring event that causes re-experience through distressing nightmares, flashbacks, and memories
Characterized by long-term patterns of unstable emotions, relationships, and self-image, leading to impulsive actions and a pervasive sense of emptiness
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
Condition that affects an essential gland, leading to an overproduction or underproduction of hormones that regulate metabolism, body temperature, and heart rate
What is a thyroid disorder?
A method of reducing fear by gradually exposing people to the object of their fear
What is systematic desensitization?
The Chinese believed that personality changed with this phenomenon.
What are the four seasons?
Characterized by extreme mood swings, including manic highs and depressive lows
What is Bipolar Disorder?
This is the amount of personality disorders there are based on the DSM
What is six?
Neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the loss of dopamine-producing neurons in the substantia nigra region of the brain
What is Parkinson's Disease?
What is a less dangerous substitute for opiates with a similar chemical structure to morphine
What is Methadone?
John Watson caused fear in this individual. He feared this animal.
What is Lil Albert and a white rat (or white anything).