3/5/14 Notes

Question 0

Psychopharmacology

Answer 0

Study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior

Question 1

Biomedical therapy

Answer 1

Prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patients nervous system

Question 2

Antipsychotic drugs

Answer 2

Drug used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder

Question 3

Tardiness dyskinesia

Answer 3

Involuntary movements of the facil muscles tongue and limbs a possible neurotoxic Side effect of long term use of antipsychotic drugs that target certifying dopamine receptors

Question 4

Anti anxiety drugs

Answer 4

Drugs used to control anxiety and agitation

Question 5

Antidepressant drugs

Answer 5

Drugs used to treat depression, also increasingly prescribed for anxiety. Different types work by altering the availability of various neurotransmitters

Question 6

ECT

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Biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient

Question 7

rTMS

Answer 7

Application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain used to stimulate or suppress brain activity

Question 8

Psychosurgery

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Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior

Question 9

Lobotomy

Answer 9

Now rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion controlling centers of the inner brain