_________ ______ are powerful drugs that can produce slugishness, tremors, and twitches similar to those of Parkinson's disease.
What is Antipsychotic Drugs
100
Most ________ _____ work by increasing the availability of the neurotransmitters norepinephrine or serotonin, which elevate arousal and mood and appear scarce during depression.
What is Antidepressant Dugs
100
A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient.
What is Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
100
A surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior.
What is Psychosurgery
200
When introduced in the _____, drug therapy greatly reduced the need for psychosurgery or hospitalization.
1950's
200
The molecules of antipsychotic drugs are similar to those of __________.
What is Dopamine
200
Partially blocks the reabsorption and removal of serotonin from synapses.
What is Prozac
200
Year in which Electroconvulsive Therapy was first introduced.
What is 1938
200
Because ___________'s effects are irreversible, it is the most drastic ans the least-used biomedical intervention for changing behavior.
What is Psychosurgery
300
The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior.
What is Psychopharmacology
300
Most antipsychotic drugs block ________ receptors, which reinforces the idea that an overactive _(same)_ system contributes to schizophrenia.
What is Dopamine
300
Because they slow the synaptic vacuuming up of serotonin, Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil are called __________-________-_________-_________ ______.
What is selective-serotonin-reuptake-inhibitor drugs (SSRIs)
300
Was not used in Electroconculsive Therapy when it first began but is now used.
What is general anesthetic
300
A now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves that connect the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain.
What is Lobotomy
400
__________ revolutionized the treatment of people with severe disorders and liberated hundreds of thousands from hospital confinement.
What is Psychopharmacology
400
Antianxiety agents like ________, depress central nervous activity and should not be used with __(same)__.
What is Alcohol
400
Drug researchers hope that the next generation of therapeutic drugs will target specific ______ that control specific symptoms, which may offer greater potency with fewer side effects.
What are Receptors
400
Electroconvulsive Therapy is mainly used to treat ________, as it tends to be ineffective in treating other psychological disorders.
What is Severe Depression
400
Portuguese physician that developed the lobotomy in the 1930's.
Who is Egas Moniz
500
A technique that is used to evaluate the effectiveness of new drugs.
What is Double-Blind Technique
500
Used on combination with other therapy, an _______ _____ can help a person learn to cope with frightening situations and fear-triggering stimuli.
What is Antianxiety Drug
500
A chemical that provides an effective drug therapy for the mood swings of bipolar (manic-depressive) disorders.
What is Lithium
500
A procedure, other than Electroconvulsive Therapy, being explored in order to use on depressed patients.
What is Repetitive Transcranial Magmetic Stimulation (rTMS)
500
_______ ______ are now used instead of psychosurgy due to the effects of the lobotomy on a patient and the knowledge of new information concerning the human body when dealing with depression. Psychosurgery is used only in extreme cases today.