Unit 13 (Module 73) [only some]

Question 1

What kind of psychological drugs are used to control anxiety and agitation?

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Answer 1

antianxiety drugs

Question 2

What kind of psychological drugs are used to treat depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder(several widely used antidepressant drugs are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors—SSRIs)?

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Answer 2

antidepressant drugs

Question 3

SSRIs—selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors– is commonly used to treat what psychological disorder?

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Answer 3

depression

(but is used to treat other disorders such as anxiety)

Question 4

What biomedical therapy is used to treat severely depressed patients, in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient?

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Answer 4

electroconvulsive therapy (ect)

Question 5

What kind of psychological surgery used to be performed in the pursuit to remove or destroy brain tissue in an effort to change behavior?

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Answer 5

psychosugery

Question 6

What psychosurgical procedure was once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients? (The procedure cuts the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain.)

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Answer 6

lobotomy

Question 7

What is the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior?

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Answer 7

psychopharmacology

Question 8

What kind of drugs are used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder?

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Answer 8

antipsychotic drugs

Question 9

What kind of famous antipsychotic drug is used to treat schizophrenia?

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Answer 9

thorazine

Question 10

What kind of two famous antianxiety drugs are used to help treat disorders such as post traumatic stress disorder and help calm the nervous system?

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Answer 10

• Xanax
• Valium

Question 11

What famous popular drug antidepressant drug is used to depression and some forms of anxiety?

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Answer 11

prozac

Question 12

What are the most famous antidepressant drugs prescribed to treat depression and some forms of anxiety called?

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Answer 12

SSRIs—selective
serotonin reuptake inhibitors

Question 13

ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) is used to treat what disorder when it becomes severe?

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Answer 13

depression

Question 14

What can be described as the application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity?

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Answer 14

repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)

Question 15

What can be described as the personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma?

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Answer 15

resilience

Question 16

What can be described as positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises?

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Answer 16

posttraumatic growth