Exam 8: Psychotherapeutic Drugs: Medication for Mental Disorders

Educating doctors about mental illness is a first step toward reducing the stigma and encouraging greater acceptance and understanding of mental illness.

Antipsychotic drugs have their initial effect in the brain by blocking D2 dopamine receptors.

What was Prozac's initial purpose?

Although not completely clear, what plays a role in the delineation between genetics and environment and panic disorders?

In panic disorder, different brain regions may support specific symptomatology.

Describe electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).

Current theories of the antidepressant action of drugs, focus less on the drug's initial biochemical effects and more on which of the following?

Describe the outcome for psychiatric patients in Canada after chlorpromazine was introduced into the Canadian market in 1955.

What does research suggest regarding the likelihood of having an anxiety disorder?

As a Canadian citizen, what is the likelihood you will experience major depression at some point in your life which will require hospitalization?

What was the outcome of a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) study that examined schizophrenia and those receiving phenothiazines?

After experimenting on pigs in a slaughterhouse, who developed the technique of using electric shock to induce convulsions?

What should Joseph avoid now that he has been prescribed monoamine oxidase inhibitors for his depression?

What is lithium?