Exam 14: Psychological Disorders

 Thelma has bipolar disorder. Since she didn't respond to lithium salts, her doctors prescribed her _____.

 Autism spectrum disorder encompasses both autism and what used to be called Asperger's syndrome.

 Samuel smokes cigarettes regularly. Today, he had to sit through a 10-hour meeting without a cigarette break and he started feeling irritable and sick. The meeting resulted in him starting to experience ______.

 To say that a drug has an affinity for a particular type of receptor is to imply that the drug ____.

 Acneer has been diagnosed with depression. It is likely that he has lower than average levels of _____.

 Physicians must carefully monitor the dose of lithium they give to bipolar patients because ____.

 Ayisa suffers from seasonal affective disorder. She is most likely to have trouble with her symptoms _____.

 The areas with the most consistent signs of abnormality in schizophrenics include the ____.

 Most depressed people have decreased activity in the left and increased activity in the right prefrontal cortex.

 About 12 percent of the mothers of children who have autism spectrum disorders have ____.

 The doses of various drugs that are typically prescribed for schizophrenia are closely related to the strength of what effect?

 Studies of individuals at high risk of alcoholism show that ____.

 What is the most common cognitive symptom of schizophrenia?

 An example of a "negative symptom" of schizophrenia is ____.

 Dr. Littlejohn told his patient not to take St. John's wort with her other medications because not a lot is known about the herb and it might _____.

 Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors operate similarly to ____.

 When an adopted child develops schizophrenia, the disease is significantly more probable among the ____.

 Which statement about the long-term course for people diagnosed with schizophrenia is true?

 Charlotte has schizophrenia and is beginning to experience _____ (one of the major side effects) as a result of her medication affecting the _____.

 Repeated use of large doses of amphetamine or cocaine can lead to a behavioral condition similar to ____.