Treatment Flashcards
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Antipsychotic drugs
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Reducing dopamine release, reducing hallucinations. Side effects are tardive dyskinesia, involuntary jerking.
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Anxiety Drugs
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Reduce neuro activity, diazapames. Highly addictive and used as recreational drugs. Not as affective as initally thought
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Antidepressants
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SSRI’s and trycyclics. Reduce in 50% but have a lot of side effects. Block reuptake of serotonine.
4
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Placebo effects
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Spontaneous remission; Improvement of those who don’t receive treatment (control)
Placebo effect: effect in those who think they took the drugs but had placebo
Drug effect; Improvement of those who took drugs. Higher than effect in placebo
