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Drugs
Treatment
Disorders
Effects
Medication
100
Formerly called minor tranquilizers
What is Anxiolytics
100
Treatment of a mental illness through mental means
What is Psychotherapy
100
Mental disorder of an unknown cause that effects thinking, affect, and behavior
What is Schizophrenia
100
Abnormal behavior from anxiety, tension, or emotional balance
What is Neurosis
100
Medication used for ADHD
What is Vyvance
200
Another name for medication used to treat psychosis
What is Neuroleptics
200
State of reduced mental tension that calms patients without a large amount of sedation or mental confusion
What is Tranquilization
200
Lithium is the medication of choice for this disorder
What is Bipolar disorder
200
Mental illness that is accompanied by bizarre behavior and an altered personality
What is Psychosis
200
Atypical antidepressant (trade name Desyrel)
What is Trazodone
300
Can be given to chemotherapy patients. Provides sedation and suppresses anticipation of emesis while producing some amnesia of emesis
What is Lorazepam
300
Method of obtaining mental and emotional history of past experiences that are currently affecting mental disorders
What is Psychoanalysis
300
Rare disease that has lack of muscle control, tics, purposeless movements, grunts, and barks
What is Tourette’s syndrome
300
Persistent and recurrent thought or idea with which the mind is continuously preoccupied and cannot be expunged
What is Obsessions
300
Medication used as a sedative/hypnotic
What is Ambien
400
Not Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) scheduled drugs and are used for anxiety and depression
What is Effexor XR
400
Medication used for psychosis, irritability of autism and bipolar disorder
What is Risperdal
400
Also known as mood disorders
What is Affective disorders
400
An irresistible, repetitive, irrational impulse
What is Compulsion
400
Inhibits neuronal uptake of serotonin in the CNS, thus potentiating activity of serotonin. It has little effect on norepinephrine or dopamine
What is Zoloft
500
Mood altering drug, often used as selective serotonin reuptake (SSRI’s)
What is Prozac
500
Medication used for depression to reduce the feelings of intense sadness, helplessness and worthlessness
What is Elavil
500
Characterized by progressive memory failure, impaired thinking, confusion, etc.
What is Alzheimer’s disease
500
Dependency on a drug, tobacco, or alcohol that is a result from repeated use of a substance
What is Psychologic drug dependence or Habituation
500
A member of the benzodiazepine family, used to reduce irritability, anxiety, and tension of PMS
What is Xanax