Chapter 13 part 2

Question 1

what are mood disorders?

Answer 1

disturbance in affect or emotion

Question 2

what is another name for mood disorders?

Answer 2

affective disorders

Question 3

what is major clinical depression?

Answer 3

deeply depressed mood or inability to experience pleasure that comes on fairly suddenly and is out of proportion with the circumstances surrounding it

Question 4

depression is the number one reason ___________________

Answer 4

people seek mental health services

Question 5

behaviors and thoughts _______________

Answer 5

change with depression, everything is seen as a burden

Question 6

depression is twice as likely in _____

Answer 6

women

Question 7

most depressive episodes end _________

Answer 7

on their own, therapy speeds recovery

Question 8

depression is often brought on ______________

Answer 8

by stressful events

Question 9

what is bipolar disorder?

Answer 9

cycling between manic episodes (extreme happiness) and depressive episodes

Question 10

if you gave someone with bipolar disorder medication for depression, would it work?

Answer 10

no, the treatments are different

Question 11

what is the key symptom of a manic phase?

Answer 11

little need for sleep

Question 12

what are the symptoms of a manic phase?

Answer 12

little need for sleep
loud, flighty speech that is hard to interrupt
feeling on top of the world (extreme optimism)
irritated by advice
poor judgment
increased risk taking
increase in creativity and productivity

Question 13

what is schizophrenia?

Answer 13

long-lasting psychotic disorder (involving a break with reality) characterized by disturbances in thinking, emotions, behavior and perceptions

Question 14

what is the main characteristic of schizophrenia?

Answer 14

psychoses (disturbances in thinking, emotions, behavior, and perceptions)

Question 15

what is a positive symptom?

Answer 15

doing something you shouldn’t be doing

Question 16

what is a negative symptom?

Answer 16

not doing something you should be doing

Question 17

is it easier to suppress positive symptoms or undo negative symptoms of schizophrenia?

Answer 17

suppress positive symptoms

Question 18

what are the positive symptoms of schizophrenia?

Answer 18

hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking, irrational thought, word salad

Question 19

what are hallucinations?

Answer 19

hear/see things that aren’t real

Question 20

what are delusions?

Answer 20

believing things that aren’t true

Question 21

what is word salad?

Answer 21

cannot form coherent sentences

Question 22

what are the negative symptoms of schizophrenia?

Answer 22

flat affect, catatonia, social withdrawal, lack of speech

Question 23

what is flat affect?

Answer 23

no emotions

Question 24

what is catatonia?

Answer 24

awake, but unresponsive, they don’t remember their catatonia episodes

Question 25

what is social withdrawal?

Answer 25

they don’t go out, hermit

Question 26

what is lack of speech?

Answer 26

they stop speaking when in an active episode

Question 27

every person that has schizophrenia has a different __________

Answer 27

array of symptoms

Question 28

what causes schizophrenia?

Answer 28

probably multiple factors, but there is strong evidence that it is a biological, neurodegenerative disorder

Question 29

is schizophrenia caused by only genes?

Answer 29

no

Question 30

when does schizophrenia typically appear?

Answer 30

between 18 and 25

Question 31

what is the concordance rate of schizophrenia in identical twins?

Answer 31

49%

Question 32

what is the concordance rate of schizophrenia in fraternal twins?

Answer 32

7%

Question 33

how did researchers prove schizophrenia has a biological component?

Answer 33

they did a study where people who were adopted had schizophrenia. the adopted family raised them and they had no contact with their biological family, which means their genetic influenced it because there was a family history of schizophrenia

Question 34

what is the dopamine hypothesis?

Answer 34

theory that is excessive dopamine that causes schizophrenia

Question 35

what is evidence to the dopamine hypothesis?

Answer 35

drugs that block dopamine reduce positive symptoms of schizophrenia