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Addiction
ASD
Mood Disorders
Schizophrenia
Alzheimer's Disease
Miscellaneous
100
Neurotransmitter most linked to addiction
What is dopamine?
100
More common in _____ than ______.
What is boys; girls?
100

This is characterized by a long-lasting low mood that interferes with the ability to function, feel pleasure, or maintain interest in life.

What is Major Depressive Disorder?

100
Hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized speech and thoughts are the ________ symptoms of schizoprhenia
What are positive?
100

A debilitating loss in cognitive function due to a neurodegenerative disease such as Alzheimer’s.

What is dementia?

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
Disorder with alternating episodes of depression and mania?
What is bipolar disorder?
200
Age (decade) at which schizophrenia is first diagnosed
What is 20s?
200

An extracellular clumping of proteins that build up in people with Alzheimer’s disease causing cell deaths.

What are beta-amyloid plaques?

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

These are the 2 main areas of the brain thought to be overactive in people with Autism Spectrum Disorders.

What are the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala?

300
Most of the antidepressant drugs lead to increased levels of one or more of these 3 neurotransmitters
What are serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine?
300
Most antipsychotic drugs block activity of this neurotransmitter
What is dopamine?
300

Tangles created by clumps of tau proteins inside neurons causing neuron, death in people with Alzheimer’s disease.

What are neurofibrillary tangles?

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 common/effective treatment for ASD

What is applied behavior analysis/behavioral intervention?

400

This type of therapy has been shown to be as effective as antidepressants, particularly with mild or moderate depression

What is CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy)?

400

There tends to be an increase in the size of the ____ in people with schizophrenia, and a decrease in size of the _____ and ____ lobes. 

What are ventricles; frontal and temporal lobes?

400

The _______ and _______ are amongst the brain regions most affected by neuronal loss in AD.

What are cerebral cortex and hippocampus?
400
Brain-damage-produced deficits in language-related ability are generally referred to as ______
What is aphasia?
500

The _________ theory states that avoiding withdrawal or reducing adversity is the cause of drug addiction, while the ________ theory states that drug addiction is maintained by the pleasure one gets from taking the drug 

What are negative reinforcement and positive reinforcement?

500
ASD is NOT caused by these
What are vaccines?
500

In addition to antidepressants and psychotherapy, these are some other treatments for Major Depressive Disorder.

Answers will vary

500
Rather than increased dopamine levels, symptoms of schizophrenia may be due to decreased levels of this neurotransmitter
What is glutamate?
500

Dysfunction of these glial cells may contribute to the progression of Alzheimer's disease.

What are microglia?

500
How much of our brains do we use?
What is ALL OF IT/MORE THAN 10%?!