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| What are monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitors? |
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| Def. Class of drugs used to treat depression; improves mood or depression |
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| What are tricyclic antidepressants? |
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| Def. Used for depression, chronic pain, and ADHD treatments. |
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| What are slective seotonin reuptake inhibitors? |
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| Def. SSRIs are drugs prescribed primarily for depresssion and anxiety disorders. |
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| Def. A widely used antidepressant that inhipits the reuptake of norepiinephrine and dopamine. |
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| What are the functions of benzodiazepines and bariturates? |
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| Drugs are used to treat anxiety. |
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| is a salt used to stabilize the mania associated with . |
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| Lithium, bipolar disorder. |
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| What are the effects of phenothiazines? What are the drugs normally used for? |
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| The drugs help diminish hallucinations, confusion, agitation, and paranoia. Traditionally used for schizophrenia. |
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| What is tardive dyskinesia? |
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| Def. A condition of repetitive, involutary movement of jaw, tongue, aface and mouth and body tremors resulting from the extended use of traditional antipsychotic drugs. |
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| What are atypical antipsychotic drugs? |
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| Def. Antipsychotic drugs that eliminate the condition of tardive dyskinesia. |
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| What is a prefrontal labotomy? |
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| Def. A surgical procedure that severs connections between the prefrontal cortex and the lower portion of the brain. Procedure is no longer in use. |
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| What is electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)? |
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| Def. Treatment of last resort for severe depression that involves passing an electrical current through a person's brain in order to induce a seizure. |
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| What is repetetive transcranial magnetic stimulation? |
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| Def. A treatement for severe depression involving exposure of specific brain structures to bursts of high intensity magnetic fields instead of electricity. |
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| Def. the use of psychological techniques to modify maladaptive behaviors or thought patterns. "The couch" |
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| What are the four types of psychotherapy? (Hint: pd, h, b, c, c-b) What are their functions? |
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- psychodynamic- therapy to uncover unconsious motives; therapists use free association, transference, repression, and catharis (releasing unconscious emotion)
- humanistic- involves client-centered therapy in which the therapist shows uncoditional positive regard.
- behavioral- therapies that apply the primciples of conditioning, token economies; uses also systematic desensitization for phobias
- cognitive-behavioral-- restructuring of irrational thought patterns with conditioning
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| What is dialectical behavior therapy? |
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| Def. therapy used to treat borderline personality disorder by MCBT without meditation. |
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| What are Jeffrey Schwartz's Four Steps? |
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| Relabel, Reattribute, Refocus, and Revalue. |
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