Exam 16: Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

Along with the dopamine hypothesis, there is also the ___________ hypothesis, both of which try to explain the causes for schizophrenia.

A patient unable to remember specific details of a past birthday party may be suffering from:

Antipsychotics are a class of medications that function as:

In Huntington's disease, accumulations of a mutant form of _____ protein are found in the striatum.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is characterized by the presence of behavioral compulsions and:

The regions damaged in frontotemporal dementia are highly variable across patients.

There is no way to modulate risk for Alzheimer's disease.

This behavioral exercise approach involves presenting increasingly intense stimuli to an individual with OCD without allowing them to engage in the compulsive behavior.

Individuals with OCD often show _____ brain activity when shown images of stimuli associated with their compulsions.

Voxel-based morphometry allows researchers to compare brain _____ between individuals with and without a specific neurological disorder.

SSRIs work by _____ serotonin in the synaptic cleft.

Why is it harder to seek treatment for certain neurological disorders over others?

Heritability of schizophrenia is about:

Using MAOIs carries a risk of _____, a risk not produced by using SSRIs.

Pittsburgh Compound-B is a radiotracer that binds specifically to amyloid plaques.

What do we call treatment for depression that involves the use of antidepressant medications?

Rather than ECT, individuals can receive _____ to stimulate a small region of their brain to try and relieve symptoms of depression.

An individual that has an intense desire to touch all of the doorknobs in a room is suffering from a(n):

The classical features of _____ include motor and vocal tics.

Individuals with brain damage to the _____ may develop symptoms of OCD.