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| deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional behavior patterns |
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| attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) |
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| a psychological disorder marked by the appearance by age 7 of one or more of three key symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity |
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| the concept that diseases, in this case psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured, often through treatment in a hospital. |
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| psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety |
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| generalized anxiety disorder |
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| an anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal |
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| an anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations |
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| an anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object or situation |
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| obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) |
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| an anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or actions (compulsions). |
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| post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) |
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| an anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience. |
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| positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises |
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| psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a somatic (bodily) form without apparent physical cause |
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| a rare somatoform disorder in which a person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found |
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| a somatoform disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease |
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| disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings |
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| dissociative identity disorder (DID) |
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| a rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities |
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| psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes |
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| major depressive disorder |
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| a mood disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or a medical condition, two or more weeks of significantly depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, and diminished interest or pleasure in most activities |
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| symptoms are the presence of inappropriate behaviors |
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| symptoms are the absence of appropriate behaviors |
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| Schizophrenia patients with ______ symptoms have toneless voices, expressionless faces, or mute and rigid bodies |
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| Schizophrenia patients with _________ symptoms may experience hallucinations, talk in disorganized and deluded ways, and exhibit inappropriate laughter, tears, or rage |
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| Those with ________ schizophrenia often exhibit the persistent and incapacitating negative symptom of withdrawal |
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| When a previously well-adjusted person develops schizophrenia rapidly (called acute, or reactive, schizophrenia) following particular life stresses, recovery is much more likely. They more often have the _________ symptoms that are more likely to respond to drug therapy |
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| ________ schizophrenia is a characterized by a preoccupation with delusions or hallucinations, often with themes of persecution or grandiosity |
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| _________ schizophrenia is characterized by disorganized speech or behavior, or flat or inappropriate emotion |
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| ________ schizophrenia is characterized by many and varied symptoms |
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| ______ schizophrenia is characterized by withdrawal, after hallucinations and delusions have disappeared |
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| Those with ________ schizophrenia often exhibit the persistent and incapacitating negative symptom of withdrawal |
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| a high level of __________ may intensify brain signals in schizophrenia, creating positive symptoms such as hallucinations and paranoia. |
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| drugs that block dopamine receptors often lessen ______ symptoms in schizophrenics |
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| Dopamine-blocking drugs have little effect on persistent _________ symptoms of withdrawal |
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| Drugs that interfere with glutamate receptors can produce schizophrenia like________ symptoms |
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| many people with ________ schizophrenia have abnormal activity in multiple brain areas |
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| Another PET scan study of people with paranoia found increased activity in the __________, a fear-processing center |
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| _______involves not one isolated brain abnormality but problems with several brain regions and their interconnections |
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| Two known risk factors for __________ are low birth weight and oxygen deprivation during delivery |
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