Diagnosis and Symptoms
This treatment category uses medications and medical procedures to reduce symptoms of psychological disorders.
What is Biomedical Therapy?
This neurotransmitter is associated with schizophrenia, Parkinson’s disease, learning, and motor function.
What is Dopamine?
This serious side effect of antipsychotic medications causes involuntary movements and tremors.
What is Tardive dyskinesia?
This biomedical treatment uses medication or medical procedures to reduce symptoms of psychological disorders.
What is Biomedical Therapy?
A common myth about this treatment is that it completely cures psychological disorders rather than mainly reducing symptoms.
What is Psychotropic medication?
These medications are designed to alter the way a person thinks, feels, or behaves.
What are Psychotropic drugs?
This neurotransmitter is linked to mood, sleep, depression, and aggression.
What is Serotonin?
This complication of anti-anxiety medications can occur because calming effects may become habit-forming.
What is Addiction or dependence?
This treatment for severe depression uses electrical currents to intentionally induce a controlled seizure.
What is Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)?
A myth about this historical procedure is that it safely treated mental illness without severe long-term consequences.
What is a Lobotomy?
This older psychosurgery procedure involved destroying or severing connections in the frontal lobe of the brain.
What is a Lobotomy?
This perspective suggests anxiety and disorders come from distorted or irrational thinking patterns.
What are Agonists?
This side effect of stimulant medications used for ADHD commonly involves trouble sleeping.
What is Insomnia or difficulty sleeping?
This brain stimulation treatment uses electromagnetic pulses targeted at specific brain regions.
What is Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS)?
A myth about this treatment is that patients painfully feel the electrical shocks during the procedure.
What is Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)?
This brain stimulation treatment uses magnetic pulses to stimulate targeted areas of the brain without surgery.
What is Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS)?
This class of antidepressants works by preventing serotonin from being reabsorbed into neurons too quickly.
What are Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs)?
This memory-related complication can occur after electroconvulsive therapy, especially with bilateral ECT.
What is Memory loss?
This invasive treatment implants electrodes into the brain to deliver continuous electrical stimulation.
What is Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)?
A myth about this treatment is that it works instantly for every patient with depression.
What are Antidepressants?