DID/Schizophrenia
This key symptom of DID involves gaps in memory for everyday events or personal information.
Dissociative Amnesia
This eating disorder is characterized by extreme weight loss and an intense fear of gaining weight.
Anorexia nervosa
This disorder involves continued substance use despite negative consequences.
Substance use disorder
This disorder includes sudden episodes of intense fear with physical symptoms like heart palpitations.
Panic disorder
This therapy focuses on changing maladaptive thoughts and behaviors.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
According to the biopsychosocial model, this type of early life experience is strongly associated with DID
Severe childhood trauma
This disorder involves binge eating followed by compensatory behaviors like purging.
Bulima nervosa
This phase of bipolar disorder includes elevated mood, increased energy, and reduced need for sleep.
Mania
OCD
These medications are commonly used to treat depression by increasing serotonin levels.
This neurotransmitter is most commonly linked to schizophrenia when present in excess activity.
Dopamine
This cluster of personality disorders is associated with anxious and fearful behaviors.
Cluster C
This concept refers to the body’s need for increasing the amount of a substance to achieve the same effect.
Tolerance
This learning process explains how neutral stimuli become associated with fear responses.
This biomedical treatment uses electrical currents to induce controlled seizures.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
This model explains schizophrenia as the result of interacting genetic vulnerability and environmental stressors.
Diathesis-stress model
This neurotransmitter imbalance is linked to both eating disorders and impulse-control issues.
This theory explains substance use as a way to reduce negative emotional states, such as removing negative stimuli
Negative reinforcement
This theory proposes that depression results from a perceived lack of control over outcomes.
Learned helplessness
This class of drugs reduces anxiety by depressing central nervous system activity.
Benzodiazepines
This brain structure, associated with memory processing, is often studied for abnormalities in individuals with DID due to trauma exposure.
Hippocampus
This personality disorder is marked by a lack of empathy, manipulativeness, and violation of others’ rights.
Antisocial personality disorder
This withdrawal symptom can be life-threatening and is commonly associated with alcohol dependence.
Seizures
This cognitive theory suggests depression is caused by negative thought patterns about self, world, and future.
Beck’s cognitive triad
This modern treatment uses magnetic pulses to stimulate specific brain regions in depression.
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)