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Psychological Disorders
Therapy
Brain & Nervous System
Neurons, NTs, & Drugs
Potpourri
100
Disorder characterized by: -Excessive, uncontrollable anxiety or worry -Often experience everything as an opportunity for disaster
What is the generalized anxiety disorder?
100
Good alternative for those with severe depression that does not respond to drugs
What is electro-convulsive therapy?
100
The outermost covering of the brain, largely responsible for higher-order mental processes.
What is the cerebral cortex?
100
Space where information is passed from one neuron to another
What is the synaptic cleft?
100
This therapy involves an emphasis on recognizing negative thoughts and changing them
What is Cognitive Therapy?
200
When people experience alternating periods of mania and depression
What is bipolar disorder?
200
This group of medications may cause Parkinsonian symptoms or tardive dyskensia.
What are anti-psychotics?
200
Area of the brain involved in the production of speech.
What is Broca's area?
200
The part of the neuron that receives signals from other neurons.
What is the dendrite?
200
Personality Disorder that involves: -Lack of concern with rights of others -Rejection of social norms
What is anti-social personality disorder?
300
Symptoms of this disorder include: Delusions, Hallucinations, Disorganized speech, & Maladaptive behavior
What is schizophrenia?
300
Type of medication that prevents reuptake of NTs serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine
What are tricyclic anti-depressants?
300
Bundle of nerve fibers Connects the left and right hemispheres
What is the corpus callosum?
300
Messages that increases the likelihood that the postsynaptic neuron will fire
What are excitatory messages?
300
After experiencing a traumatic or life threatening event nightmares, flashbacks, insomnia, reliving the trauma
What is PTSD?
400
These disorders are characterized by an inflexible, maladaptive pattern of thoughts and emotions.
What are personality disorders?
400
Involves creating an anxiety hierarchy.
What is systematic desensitization?
400
The part of the brain believe to be responsible for memory formation
What is the hippocampus?
400
Neurotransmitter most commonly associated with depression & anxiety
What is serotonin?
400
Phantom Limb pain is an example of ______ in the brain.
What is plasticity?
500
This model argues that mental illness results from a combination of individual vulnerability & stressful life events.
What is the Vulnerability-Stress Model or Diathesis Stress Model?
500
In this type of therapy, the therapist listens to client’s needs in an accepting, non-judgmental way
What is client centered therapy?
500
The part of the nervous system associated with the "fight or flight" response.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
500
Changes in bodily processes that make a drug necessary for minimal functioning
What is physical dependence?
500
The main neurotransmitter involved in Parkinson's Disease
What is dopamine?