Exam 16: Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

A loss of contact with reality is referred to as:

The specific kind of obsessions (for example, hand-washing vs. hoarding) of an individual with OCD can be related to the _____ of brain activity when shown symptom-provoking images.

_____ dementia often strikes earlier than Alzheimer's disease.

Some individuals with Tourette syndrome suffer from intense urge to complete complex sets of behaviors called:

Tragically, due to high amounts of impulsivity, 15-20% of _________ patients commit suicide.

Electrically stimulating the ____ can produce strong urges to make a particular movement, or even elicit the movement itself.

No single gene is the definitive cause of Alzheimer's disease.

A patient that has evidenced a one-time, severe change in personality may be suffering from:

The pathological tendency to repeat an action persistently, even when it no longer serves a useful purpose is called:

Hoarding of useless garbage could be a symptom of:

Brain-derived neurotropic factor (BDNF) levels have been found to be ________ in depressed suicide victims.

Positive symptoms, such as the ___________ that can be present in schizophrenia, are symptoms that appear with the disease.

What is voxel-based morphometry, and how has it revolutionized how we study the neurological basis for certain disorders?

An individual that has consistent, intrusive worries about having clean hands and proceeds to wash them to the point of actually damaging them may be diagnosed with:

A common medication for treating bipolar disorder is:

Because Huntington's affects the striatum, one the primary symptoms is loss of:

False beliefs, like those present in some cases of schizophrenia, are called:

Two corticostriatal processing loops are often implicated in OCD, one between the ventral striatum and the orbitofrontal cortex, the other between the anterior caudate nucleus and the:

Unlike frontotemporal dementia, the damage in Huntington's disease is primarily:

Researchers can combine fMRI and ____ to compare functional connectivity with areas affected by amyloid plaques.