25. Electroconvulsive Therapy and Psychosurgery

Question 1

Aka electroshock therapy, is currently used in treatment of major depression.

Answer 1

ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY (ECT)

Question 1

ECT is also effective in the treatment of patients with delusional ____, ____ disorder, ____, and ____.

Answer 1

depression
bipolar
schizophrenia
catatonia

Question 2

Patients lie on an insulated cart or bed and are ____. Electrodes are then placed on their heads to administer an electric shock strong enough to induce a ____.

Answer 2

anaesthetised, seizure

Question 3

Another procedure once widely practised is ____, brain surgery to reduce psychological symptoms.

Answer 3

Psychosurgery

Question 5

Psychosurgical procedures are typically used for ____ or ____ disorders, such as obsessive compulsive disorder.

Answer 5

affective or anxiety

Question 6

Psychosurgery involves ____ of neural structures rather than their stimulation.

Answer 6

lesioning

Question 7

The most widely practised western psychosurgery technique was ____, which involves severing tissue in a cerebral lobe, usually the frontal.

Answer 7

lobotomy