Trouble sleeping, loss of energy, difficulty concentrating, and feelings of helplessness/worthlessness are symptoms of this disorder.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
100
This therapy for depression uses electric shock to induce a cortical seizure.
What is Electroconvulsive Therapy?
100
Schizophrenia has the highest comorbidity rate with this disorder.
What is substance abuse?
100
Many patients with PTSD initially meet the criteria for this anxiety disorder, a version of PTSD where the symptoms last less than 4 weeks.
What is Acute Stress Disorder?
100
Highest rates of suicide occur during this stage of life.
What is Middle Age?
200
This mood disorder is sometimes misdiagnosed as schizophrenia due to the occasional presence of delusions.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
200
This group is at an elevated risk for depression due to a ruminative thinking style, higher rates of poverty, and a more likely history of abuse.
What are women?
200
This type of delusion is characterized by the belief that one is famous, very important, or powerful.
What is delusion of grandeur?
200
This psychological terms refers to the protective factors that allow an individual to recover after experiencing a severe stressor.
What is resilience?
200
This part of the brain tends to be enlarged in people with schizphrenia.
What are the ventricles?
300
According to Beck's theory of depression, this cognitive bias involves drawing conclusions or making judgments without any supporting evidence.
What is arbitrary inference?
300
This mood disorder is more likely during the fall and winter months.
What is Seasonal Affective Disorder?
300
Despite the name, these symptoms of schizophrenia are not pleasant to experience. They refer to the presence of too much of a behaviour that is not apparent in most people.
What are positive symptoms?
300
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder made its appearance in the first edition of the DSM under this name.
What is Gross Stress Reaction?
300
This psychological phenomenon refers to the sudden, usually powerful and vivid memory of a past event or elements of a past event.
What is a flashback?
400
This disorder is characterized by chronic symptoms of hypomania and mild depression that last at least 2 years.
What is Cyclothymic Disorder?
400
This part of the brain tends to be about 8-10% smaller in people who have depression.
What is the hippocampus?
400
This category of schizophrenia is characterized by severe disturbances in movement.
What is Catatonic Schizophrenia?
400
Symptoms of PTSD were coined this during WWI to describe soldiers' reactions to the trauma of battle.
What is Shell Shock?
400
This emotional state is symptomatically opposite of depression.
What is mania?
500
This class of anti-depressant drugs works by deactivating the enzyme that breaks down serotonin and norepinephrine, increasing levels of both neurotransmitters in the synapse.
What are monoamine oxidase inhibitors?
500
People with this personality characteristic are at a higher risk for depression because they are very dependent on others, and are overly concerned with pleasings others and avoiding disapproval.
What is sociotropy?
500
According to this psychological theory of schizophrenia, the stressors associated with belonging to a low social class contribute to the development of the disorder.
What is the Sociogenic Hypothesis?
500
Canadian Soldiers in Afghanistan, American firefighters, or prisoners of war: This group has statistically the highest rate of PTSD.