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Addiction
ASD
Mood Disorders
Schizophrenia
Miscellaneous
100
Neurotransmitter most linked to addiction
What is dopamine?
100
More common in _____ than ______.
What is boys; girls?
100
Disorder with alternating episodes of depression and mania?
What is bipolar disorder?
100
Hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized speech and thoughts are the ________ symptoms of schizoprhenia
What are positive?
100
Around how many neurons do we have?
What is ~86 billion?
200
Brain region most linked to addiction?
What is nucleus accumbens?
200
TRUE/FALSE?: Autism Spectrum Disorders are caused by a single mutation of a single gene.
What is false?
200
This is one of the best treatments for seasonal affective disorder
What is light therapy?
200
Age (decade) at which schizophrenia is first diagnosed
What is 20s?
200
The 2 ions are important for electrical signaling in the brain
What are sodium and potassium?
300
The phenomenon where many of the effects of a drug, including enjoyable effects, decreases as addiction progresses.
What is tolerance?
300
Women who have adequate amounts of this during pregnancy have children with 1/2 the risk of ASD
What is folic acid?
300
Having the short form of the ______ transporter gene and stressful life events increases the probability of major depression
What is serotonin?
300
Most antipsychotic drugs block activity of this neurotransmitter
What is dopamine?
300
Part of the brain important for recognizing faces
What is fusiform gyrus?
400
Daily pill given to heroin addicts as a less dangerous substitute?
What is methadone?
400
Most effective treatment for ASD
What is behavioral intervention?
400
Most of the antidepressant drugs lead to increased levels of one or more of these 3 neurotransmitters
What are serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine?
400
This part of the frontal lobe consistently has the most damage in schizophrenic patients
What is dorsolateral prefrontal cortex?
400
Brain-damage-produced deficits in language-related ability are generally referred to as ______
What is aphasia?
500
Three main triggers of relapse
What are cues, stress, and the drug itself?
500
ASD is NOT caused by these
What are vaccines?
500
In addition to antidepressants and psychotherapy, altering this may help treat depression
What is sleep schedule?
500
Rather than increased dopamine levels, symptoms of schizophrenia may be due to decreased levels of this neurotransmitter
What is glutamate?
500
How much of our brains do we use?
What is ALL OF IT/MORE THAN 10%?!