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| Autonomic nervous system (ANS) |
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| The network of nerve fibers that connect the central nervous system to all the other organs of the body |
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| A type of institution first established in the sixteenth century to provide care for persons with mental disorders. Most became virtual prisons |
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| A clinically significant behavior or psychological syndrome that occurs in an individual. It is associated with present distress, disability, or with a a significantly increased risk of suffering death, pain, disability, or an important loss of freedom |
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| refers to co occuring symptoms or the co occurence of disorders |
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| current edition of the APA manual of psychiatric diagnoses, the bible of psychiatric diagnosis throughout the world |
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| crusaded for humane care of the mentally ill in the US. she was one of the founders of the profession of social work. Campaigned for asylum and prison reform |
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| A chemical released from the end of an axon, which travels across a synaptic cleft to stimulate receptors on adjacent neurons |
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| defined as the review and scrutiny of symptoms for teh purpose of formulating a meaningful diagnosis and treatment plan |
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| set of questions and observations that systematically evaluate a client's awareness, orientation, attention span, memory, judgement, insight, thought content, thought processes, mood, and appearance |
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| Psychotherapies that uncover past traumas and inner conflicts. rely on free association, interpretation, and catharsis |
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| Advocate of human rights and moral treatment, founder of american psychiatry |
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| a discrete attack or period of fear with at least four symptoms including palpitations, accelerated heart rate, sweating, shortness of breath, chest pain, nausea, dizziness, and tingling sensations. Sufferers often fear they will die, go crazy, or lose control. can happen in the absence of a real threat |
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| Psychological experience of fear, in all its manifestations, including apprehension, uneasiness, tension and stress that result from the anticipation of danger |
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| Parasympathetic nervous system |
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| helps return bodily systems top normal, contracts pupils, stimulates salivary glands, slows heartbeat, and stimulates digestion |
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| term referring to the probability of a negative outcome |
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| an area of the brain that coordinates movement in the body and perhaps helps control a person's rapid attention to things |
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| An extension located at one end of a neuron that receives impulses from other neurons |
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| A determination that a person's problems reflect a particular disorder |
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| chronic high blood pressure |
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| Part of the brain that maintains body functions like eating and hunger |
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| study and enhancement of positive feelings, traits, and abilities |
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| a test that consists of vague material that people interpret or respond to |
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| Neurotransmitter whose high activity has been shown to be related to schizophrenia. involved with rewards and moods |
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| site on a neuron that receives a neurotransmitters |
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the psychological experience of fear, apprehension, tension, or uneasiness that stems from the anticipation of danger
increased respiration, perspiration, muscle tension |
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| Four groups of anxiety symptoms |
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| motor tension, autonomic hyperactivity, vigilance and attention and memory, cognitive appraisal |
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| Neurophysiology of anxiety |
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amygdala: physical response of doom that it occurs, affects mid brain functions
GABA: forebrain areas, opposite response tells brain it is same, not actively in use feels anxious unsafe |
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recurrent unexpected panic attacks
month or more of one of the following after at least one of the attacks
persistent concern about having additional attacks
worry about the implications or consequences of the attack
significant change in behavior related to the attacks |
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benzodiazepines
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most common anti anxiety medications, modest relief, Valium Xanax
bind to GABA receptor sites and increase GABAs ability to stop neuron firing and reduces anxiety |
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| low levels of serotonin linked to depression, ocd, and eating disorders |
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| Symptom in a mental disorder |
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| emotions, behaviors, and cognitions relating to the CNS that are signs of an underlying disorer |
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| german psychiatrist, made encyclopedia of psychology and identified as the founder of modern psychiatry and psychopharmacology |
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| alteration or loss of voluntary motor or sensory functioning that suggests medical or neurological disorder without a physical or neurological explanation |
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| released by adrenal cortex when stimulated by ACTH a stress hormone, which releases this stress hormone |
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| stressors make hypothalamus signals the pituitary gland, secretes ACTH, stimulates adrenal glands, making it release corticosteroids, travels to body organs |
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| Reaction to a major stressor with feelings of anxiety, depressed mood, or antisocial behaviors. 30% of patients recieve this diagnosis |
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| agoraphobia follows panic disorder because people are afraid of being attacked |
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| improve mood includes Zoloft, prozac |
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| reduces confusion, hallucinations, and delusions. most common seroquel, risperdal, haldol |
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| specific hospital asylum named after the mistreatment of patients |
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| Beck Depression Inventory |
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| a type of response inventory that focuses on people's level of sadness and its effect on their functioning |
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| assumption that brain, neuroanatomy, and related biochemicals |
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| connects the two hemispheres of the brain, largest white matter |
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| Electtroconvulsive therapy ` |
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| A form onf biological treatment used on depressed patients where a brain sezure is triggered through an electric current |
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| The neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid, whose low activity has been linked to generalized anxiety disorder |
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| global assessment of functioning |
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| support cells "glue' that hold neurons together |
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| a common neurotransmitter that has been linked to memory and to dementia. excitatory neurotransmitter |
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| difficulty falling asleep or maintaining sleep, plagues 35% of the population, high levels of anxiety or depression, overactive arousal system |
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| made by Binet to test someones IQ |
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| Joseph Breuer (1882 – 1980) was a rabbi and community leader in Germany and the United States. He was a Rabbi of one of the large Jewish synagogues founded by German-Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi oppression that had settled in Washington Heights, New York.[1] |
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| are in mid-brain that is rich in norepinephrine, when stimulated it causes panic like reactions |
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| Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory |
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| a specific personality inventory that asks about behavior, beliefs, and feelings. answers are used to judge personality and psychological functioning |
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| made up of glial cells, forms the sheath and insulates |
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| helps those with bipoloar disorder, drugs used is lithium |
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| neurotransmitter that underlies fight or flight response, linked to anxiety when too much is released |
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| a test designed to measure broad personality characteristics that consists of statements about behavior, beliefs, and feelings. people evaluate as either true or false |
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| The view that the chief causes of abnormal functioning are psychological |
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| An abnormal pattern of functioning that my be described as deviant, distressful, dysfunctional, and dangerous |
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| psychophysiological disorders |
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| illnesses that result from an interaction of both psychological and physical factors |
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| psychosocial and psychosocial intervention |
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commonly used alongside psycho-educational or psycho-pharmacological interventions and points toward solutions for individual challenges in interacting with an element of the social environment.
commonly used alongside psycho-educational or psycho-pharmacological interventions and points toward solutions for individual challenges in interacting with an element of the social environment. |
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| psychosocial and psychosocial intervention |
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commonly used alongside psycho-educational or psycho-pharmacological interventions and points toward solutions for individual challenges in interacting with an element of the social environment.
commonly used alongside psycho-educational or psycho-pharmacological interventions and points toward solutions for individual challenges in interacting with an element of the social environment. |
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History of having experienced, witnessed, or confronted events involving death, serious injury, or threat to the physical integrity of self or others. reaction of intense fear, helplessness, or horror produced by event
Event persistently reexperienced in at least these ways: recurrent distressing recollections, dreams, illusions, flashbacks, distress caused by reminders, physical arousal produced by reminders
persistent avoidance of reminders of the event and sense of numbing, detachment, or emotion unresponsiveness
2 symptoms of arousal: difficulty sleeping, irritability, poor concentration, hypervigilance, exaggerated startle response
lasts for at least one month |
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| ask people to provide detailed information about themselves. usd to determine the role such factors play in a disorder |
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| schwann cells are involved in many important aspects of peripheral nerve biology - the conduction of nervous impulses along axons, nerve development and regeneration, |
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| abnormal psychological functioning has physical causes |
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| Its function includes relaying sensation, spatial sense, and motor signals to the cerebral cortex, along with the regulation of consciousness, sleep, and alertness. The thalamus surrounds the third ventricle. It is the main product of the embryonic diencephalon. |
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