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| How might one know if someone with Wernicke's aphasia is upset? |
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| Since Wernicke's aphasia occurs in the left side of the brain, by using the right side of the briain he is able to express emotion. |
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| Distruction of the basal ganglia would ultimately lead to a person's inability to recognize the emotion of _______. |
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| George et al (1996) found that comprehension of words and recognition of tone of voice were independent functions. |
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| Thought disorders, hallucinations, and delusions are ___________ effects of schizophrenia. |
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| If a person was ehibiting disorganized, irrational thinking, he is most likely displaying the most important ___________ symptom of __________. |
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| Through __________ studies and __________ studies, it was found that schizophrenia was genetic. |
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| T/F: If a person's mother an father have been diagonsed with schizophrenia, that person will surely be schizophrenic. |
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| F: Having two parents that are schizophrenic does not mean that the child will be schizophrenic. It means that the child will be susceptible to schizophrenia. |
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| T/F: Chlorpromazine will assist in reducing the negative effects of schizophrenia. |
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| F: Chlorpromazine assists in reducing the positive effects of schizophrenia. |
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| The postitive effects of schizophrenia are reduced by a varitey of drugs with one commone effect: |
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| antagonism of dopamainergic transmission. |
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| Due to hyperactivity of dopaminergic neurons, schizophrenic patients often feel (a calming effect/euphoria) just before a schizophrenic episode. |
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| The dopamine hyphothesis suggests that schizophrenia is caused by overactivity of dopaminergic synapses in the _______ pathway, which prjects from the ________ _______ area to the _______ _______ and _____ |
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| mesolimbic; ventral tegmental; necleus accumbens; amygdala |
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| One of the reasons given for schizophrenia is that a schizophrenic patient may have more __________ receptors. |
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| Whereas older schizophrenic medication blocked ____ receptors, newer medication like Clozapine blocks _____ receptors |
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| Drugs that reduce the symptoms of schizophrenia block __________ receptors. |
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| The absence of normal behaviors, flattened emotional response, poverty of speach, lack of initiative and persistence are _________ symptoms of schizophreniza. |
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| Because most patients with schizophrenia exhibit _________ symptoms, it could be suggested that these patients have brain damage. |
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| If you were born in late summer and early fall, your chances of becoming schizophrenic are (increased/reduced). This phenomenon is called ____ ____. |
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| reduced; seasonality effect |
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| T/F: Prenatal infants who's mother contracts a virus during the second semester, is Rh incompatable with the prenatal infant, or has learned their husbands were killed in war are suseptible to becoming schizophrenic. |
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| MRIs have shown that schizophrenic andolescents experience significant tissue loss that begins in the _______ and continues through the temoral lobes, somatosensory and motor cortex, and through the prefrontal cortex. |
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| Who is more likely to be bipolar, men or women. |
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| Neither. Bipolar affectmen and women in approximately equal numbers. |
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| T/F: People with bipolar disorder experience a mania that lasts three times as long as the depression. |
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| F: Depression lasts three times longer than mania. |
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