Disorder
Major changes in sleep patterns, weight level, and a loss of interest in pleasurable activities are characterized in this disorder
What is a major depressive disorder
Common medication to treat bipolar disorder
Lithium
Symptoms include: choking sensation, tightening of the throat, emotional distress, difficulty in breathing
What are the symptoms of a panic attack?
Cortisol, serotonin, and dopamine are examples of what?
Neurotransmitters. Chemical messengers of the nervous system
What system of the brain acts like the 'gas pedal in a car to relax you from a heightened state? Not the sympathetic nervous system
What is the parasympathetic system
The common type of disorder in the US?
What is anxiety disorder
Produces convulsions to treat severe depression
What is electro-convulsion therapy(ECT)
Symptoms of this include reliving a traumatic event, extreme stress/anxiety and sleep problems
What is PTSD
This neurotransmitter has been strongly linked to the development of positive symptoms in schizophrenia
What is dopamine
If an individual has lost the ability to feel pain in the left arm, there is most likely damage to what area of the brain?
What is the parietal lobe on the right side of the brain?
A person with this disorder has more than one distinct personality or identity.
What is dissociative identity disorder
This type of therapy focuses on treatments that reduce the occurrence of or change unwanted behaviors.
What is Behavior Therapy
People with this psychological disorder experience a sever break with reality, including hallucinations and delusions.
What is Schizophrenia
What neurotransmitter is low during depressive states, and can increase by exercising?
Serotonin
Gradually reduce psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions.
What are Antipsychotic drugs?
this disorder include constant patterns of inattention and/or hyperactive and impulsive behavior that interferes with normal functioning
What is ADHD
In this treatment an unpleasant state is associated with an unwanted behavior in order to reduce that behavior.
What is Aversive Conditioning
People with this psychological disorder experience extreme fearfulness and avoidance of a situation, object or event
What is a phobia
two lima bean-sized neural clusters in the limbic system; linked to raw emotions such as fear and anger
What is the amygdala?
One of the leading causes of death in the Untied States.
What is coronary heart disease?
Two of the major symptoms associated with schizophrenia.
What are delusions and hallucinations?
This type of therapy teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting.
What is Cognitive Therapy
Symptoms include thoughts and urges that are intrusive and unwanted and/or the need to engage in repetitive behaviors
What is obsessive compulsion disorders?
Severely depressed individuals are especially likely to show reduced brain activity in the
left frontal lobe
The three stages of general adaptation syndrome (in order)
What is alarm, resistance, and exhaustion?
These are people who hurt others without remorse, are deceitful, break society’s rules and norms, are impulsive, irritable, and irresponsible.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder
Therapy sessions in which one or more therapists give multiple patients therapy at the same time.
What is Group Therapy
periods of intense highs (mania or hypomania) and lows (depression) that can significantly impact mood, energy, activity, and thinking
What is bipolar disorder
Hunger is controlled by what part of the brain?
Hypothalamus
A state of physiological equilibrium/stability
What is homeostasis?