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1
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Decreased Dopamine

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Parkinson’s disease, depression

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Decreased Norepinephrine

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depression

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Decreased Serotonin (5-HT)

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depression

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Decreased Histamine (H1, H2)

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sedation and weight gain

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Decreased Y-aminobutyric acid (GABA)

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anxiety, schizophrenia, mania, and Huntington’s disease.

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Decrease Glutamate (NMDA receptors)

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psychosis

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Increase Glutamate (AMPA receptors)

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improvement of cognitive performance in behavior task.

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Decreased Acetylcholine

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AZD, Huntington’s Disease

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  • has antidepressant and anti-anxiety effects in depression
  • promotes/reinforces memory
  • enhances sensitivity to pain receptors–activates
  • involved in regulation of mood and anxiety, role in pain management
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substance p

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10
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Decreased Somatostatin

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  • altered levels of cognitive disease

- Alzheimer’s Disease

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  • endogenous antipsychotic-like properties

- decreased levels found in spinal fluid of patients with schizophrenia

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Neurotensin (NT)

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12
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Behavioral Therapist

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Skinner, Watson, Pavlov

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  • aim is to eradicate core irrational beliefs by helping people recognize thoughts that are not accurate, sensible or useful
  • thoughts tend to take the form of should (ex: I should always be polite), oughts’ (I ought to consistently win), musts (I must be thin)
  • Boils down to perceiving the glass as half full or half empty
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Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy

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14
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• Cognitive-Behavior Therapy – Theorists -

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Aaron Beck

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15
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Schemas

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unique assumption about themselves, others and the world in genera

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Automatic Thoughts

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rapid, unthinking responses based on schemas

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17
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is form of automatic response, are irrational and lead to false assumptions and misinterpretations

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Cognitive Distortions

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Individual Psychotherapy is an effective short term tx derived from?

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Sullivan and Meyer

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Goal of Individual Psychotherapy ?

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to reduce or eliminate psychiatric symptoms by improving interpersonal functioning and satisfaction with social relationships

20
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What does y-aminobutyric do?

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  • plays a role in inhibition, reduces aggression, excitation, and anxiety.
  • May reduce role in pain perception, has anticonvulsant and muscle relaxing properties.
  • anticonvulsant and muscle-relaxing properties
  • may impair cognition and psychomotor functioning
21
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Believe that thoughts come before feelings and actions, and thoughts about the world and our place in it are based on our own unique perspectives

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Cognitive Theory

22
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Interpersonal Theory theorist

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Sullivan

23
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Interpersonal Theory Defined personality as?

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behavior that can be observed within interpersonal relationships

24
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Interpersonal Theory defined anxiety as?

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any painful feeling or emotion that arises from social insecurity or prevents biological needs from being satisfied

25
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According to Freud, defense mechanisms are created by the ______ for what purpose?

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  • Ego

- to ward off anxiety

26
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They deny, falsify, or distort reality to make it less threatening

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defense mechanisms

27
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According to Freud, the ID is?

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  • Source of all instincts, reflexes, needs, genetic inheritance, and capacity to respond, as well as all the wishes that motivate us
  • If the Id is too powerful, the person will lack control over impulses
28
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If the superego is too powerful,

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the person may be self-critical and suffer from feelings of inferiority

29
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Which theory believes:

  • Personality traits and responses (good and bad) are socially learned through classical conditioning
  • Believed behaviorism is more objective or measurable
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  • Watson’s Behaviorism Theory
30
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Which theory states that voluntary behaviors learned through consequences and elicited through reinforcement (positive or negative)

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Skinner’s Operant Conditioning Theory

31
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Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs?

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  1. Physiological needs: food, oxygen, sleep, water, sex, body temp
  2. Safety needs: Security, protection, freedom from fear, anxiety, and chaos, and the need for law, order, and limits
  3. Belonging and love needs: Family, home, identifiable group
  4. Esteem needs: self-regard, reflect it to others
  5. Self-actualization: Human beings are preset to strive to be everything they are capable of becoming
  6. Self-transcendence
32
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What would be the reasons for someone to undergo an involuntary admission?

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  • Imminent danger of harming self.
  • Imminent danger of harming others.
  • Unable to care for basic needs, placing individual at imminent risk of harming self.
33
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  1. Abstract vs. Concrete thinking (Piaget):
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  • Abstract- does not exist in a particular time or place, involves a mental process
  • Concrete- involves facts and descriptions about every day, tangible objects
34
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An unshakable theory or belief in something false and impossible, despite evidence to the contrary.

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Delusion

35
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false sensory perception without an external stimulus that can result in a positive or negative experience.

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Hallucinations

36
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seeing something that isn’t really there or hearing noises or voices that do not actually exist are examples of?

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hallucinations

37
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Risk Factors for suicide?

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  • Lethal suicide plan.
  • History of suicide attempt.
  • Co-occurring psychiatric and medical illness.
  • History of child abuse/family history.
  • Isolation, unemployment
  • Stressful life events.
  • Hopelessness, panic attack.
38
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Increased Dopamine levels are seen in which psychiatric disorders?

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Schizophrenia, mania

39
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Increased dopamine

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schizophrenia, mania

40
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Increased Norepinephrine

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mania, anxiety, schizophrenia

41
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Increased Serotonin (5-HT)

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anxiety states

42
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Increase in GABA

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reduction in anxiety.

43
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Prolonged increase state of NMDA?

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can be neurotoxic; neurodegeneration in AZD

44
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Increased AcH

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depression

45
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Increased Somatostatin

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Huntington’s Disease

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