Emotion
This hormone is indicated to increase social aggression, particularly in males.
What is testosterone?
This term defines how environmental influences affect the expression of genes during childhood.
What is epigenetics?
These types of drugs mimic the positive effects of schizophrenia.
What are hallucinogens?
This disorder describes an intense fear associated with a particular situation or object.
What is specific phobia?
This behavioral and cognitive state is defined by delusions of grandeur, overconfidence, impulsivity, distractibility, and usually involved psychosis.
What is mania?
This brain region was injured when Phineas Gage injured himself with a rod, changing his personality forever.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
Exposure to stress can cause this brain region to have shrinking of dendrites and reduced neurogenesis.
What is the hippocampus?
These symptoms are described as an excess of typical function, such as delusions and hallucinations.
What are positive symptoms?
Prozac is the brand name for this drug.
What is fluoxetine?
Drugs like fluoxetine block the reuptake of this neurotransmitter.
What is serotonin?
This term describes the idea that the right and left hemispheres of the brain are specialized for different aspects of emotional functioning.
What is lateralization?
These hormones, released by the adrenal medulla, are known as the stress hormones.
What are epinephrine and norepinephrine?
This drug, initially developed as an antihistamine, was the first antipsychotic drug.
What is chlorpromazine?
These drugs are helpful in the treatment of anxiety, as they work to increase the binding of GABA-A to its receptors.
What are benzodiazepines?
This treatment of depression uses an implanted electrode to stimulate the anterior cingulate gyrus.
What is deep brain stimulation?
This hypothesis describes how facial expressions can influence emotional experiences.
What is the facial feedback hypothesis?
These disorders have a physical basis that are influenced by psychological factors.
What are psychosomatic (disorders)?
Schizophrenia is found to be associated with excessive activity in this brain system.
What is the dopamine system?
The neural basis of anxiety disorders are deficits in serotonin and this neurotransmitter.
What is GABA-A?
This type of depression is trigged by negative experiences.
What is reactive depression?
These structures in the brain were identified to control the expression of emotions via the hypothalamus.
What is the limbic system?
Early experiences of stress are mediated by these receptors in the hippocampus.
What are glucocorticoid (receptors)?
Schizophrenia is caused by hyperactivity at these receptors, as symptoms are alleviated by drugs that block this activity.
What are D2 receptors?
Activity in the hippocampus, medial prefrontal cortex, and this brain region is altered in anxiety disorders.
What is the amygdala?
This theory describes how depression may be caused by under-activity at serotonin and norepinephrine synapses.
What is the monoamine theory?