Module 73 - The Biomedical Therapies and Preventing Psychological Disorders

Question 1

Psychopharmacology

Answer 1

The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior

Question 2

Antipsychotic drugs

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Antianxiety drugs

Answer 3

Drugs used to control anxiety and agitation

Question 4

Antidepressant drugs

Answer 4

Drugs used to treat depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and PTSD

Question 5

Electroconvulsive therapy

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS)

Answer 6

The application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity

Question 7

Psychosurgery

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Lobotomy

Answer 8

A 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

Question 9

Resilience

Answer 9

The ability to cope with stress and recover from adversity

Question 10

Posttraumatic growth

Answer 10

Positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises