Module 13 Flashcards
According to the DSM-IV diagnostic profile, a person with posttraumatic syndrome disorder may display inappropriate level of irritability, aggressiveness, and ______.
Hypervigilance
Anxiety is an emotional state characterized by worry or nervousness regarding a future event and in the worst cases often described as a feeling of ______.
Impending doom
In a 2003 fMRI study, neuroscientists found confirming results of greater activation in the ACC brain network functional region of OCD patients than in control patients, indicating hyperactive ______ perceptions.
Conflict
The biological factors of genetic predispositions of an inherited disorder decreases with the degree of relatedness.
True
Research findings indicate ______ in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), insula, and amygdala may account for exaggerated responses to potential threats.
Hyperactivity
In OCD, exaggerated error signals may continually give the person with OCD the feeling of ______, which may form the basis for obsessions, giving rise to high levels of anxiety.
Something being wrong
The positive symptoms of schizophrenia include delusions and hallucinations, which are sometimes referred to as the ______ of schizophrenia.
Psychotic symptoms
Some common delusions in schizophrenia are delusions of grandeur, delusions of persecution, and ______.
Paranoia
What social and neuroethical concerns did Akram and Giordano (2017) identify as potential implications of an RDoC-based psychiatric nosology? (Check all that apply.)
Stigmatization AND bias
According to Husain et al. (2015), the most serious known risk of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is:
Seizure
The ventral attentional network is thought to be involved in ______.
Stimulus-driven attention
Aberrant salience hypothesis posits that excessive dopamine release results in external and internal stimuli, that have no particular importance to become exaggeratedly salient, giving rise to ______.
Delusions and hallucinations
A recent theories of auditory and verbal hallucinations (AVH) in schizophrenia, AVH are thought to be due to all but ______.
Dopamine induced aberrant salience
MDD may implicate dysfunctions in the neurotransmitter glutamate spurring research for the treatment of depression with drugs that increase levels of glutamate such as ketamine.
True
Psychological disorders are classified in the diagnostic and statistical manual (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association which provides the diagnostic criteria for the various disorders.
True