Drug Vocab
Drug that primarily boosts serotonin levels
What is antidepressant
Treatment of psychological disorders that involves changing the brain's function by using prescribed drugs, electroconvulsive therapy, or surgery.
What is biomedical therapy
Form of therapy that began in Europe from a depressed patient convulsing
What is rTMS
Now-rare form of psychosurgery once used to try to calm uncontrollably emotional or violet patients; the procedure cut the nerves that connect the frontal lobes of the brain to the deeper emotional centers
What is Lobotomy
Egas Moniz received a Nobel Prize for Lobotomy (True/False)
What is true
Type of drug that is primarily used to treat people undergoing significant stress
What is anti-anxiety drugs
Release of patients from mental hospitals into the community
What is Deinstitutionalization
Shocking the patient to produce convulsions instead of large amounts of insulin
What is Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
Lobotomies were controversial because they sometimes caused which of the following symptoms in patients
What is a near-vegetative, unmotivated, or vacant state.
rTMS stands for
what is repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation
Type of drug that is primarily used to treat schizophrenia
What is anti-psychotic drugs
Therapy for major depression in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient
What is Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
Electroconvulsive therapy is used to treat what disorders
What is depression or bipolar disorder
Who invented Lobotomy
What is Egas Moniz
inventors of ECT
Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini