Exam 8: Psychotherapeutic Drugs: Medication for Mental Disorders

Leonard's new symptoms are the result of taking the older type of antipsychotics medication, but he is reassured that they are the most common complication of this drug treatment, which one is it?

The MAO inhibitors are considered to be atypical antipsychotics.

What term is used to describe a disorder of thinking when there is a known physical cause?

The American Psychiatric Association's DSM-5 divides all mental disorders into either neuroses or psychoses.

Describe the following terms; phenothiazines, neuroleptics, and antipsychotics.

What did the first tricyclic antidepressants do?

At what point was chlorpromazine first placed on the market and what was the initial outcome?

According to a 2012 study, females had higher rates of substance use disorders than males.

Which of the following is important to the development of panic disorders according to Hebb's model of the progression of panic disorder?

Which mood stabilizer, experienced a diminished acceptance when a series of overdose poisonings occurred, and by the fact that the drug was one of the basic elements and could not be patented?

Both depressed and manic symptoms appear in the general classification of which disorder?

Explain the role and outcome of antipsychotic drugs when treating patient's positive and negative symptoms.

The latest evidence on the effectiveness of antidepressants is that they are only slightly better than placebos.

What historically did the terms phenothiazines and neuroleptics describe?

What is the average lag period for antidepressants to begin to be effective?

While taking MAOIs, high blood pressure crisis can result.

Currently in clinical trials in Toronto, magnetic seizure therapy (MST) is being investigated as an alternative to which treatment?

In Canada, what are the two most abused drugs for those suffering with a mental health problem?

The mood disorders include specific phobia.

What do many of the new atypical antipsychotics cause?