Clearly I'm Not Good At This... Biopsych 62-100 Hopefully

Front 1

Lesions to which structure specifically block the conditioning of fear to s context

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Hippocampus

Front 2

Each facial expression _________ on the left side of the face

Back 2

Begins

Front 3

The physiological response to harm or threat is generally referred to as

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Stress response

Front 4

What stress pathway is the faster system?

Back 4

Anterior-pituitary adrenal-cortex system

Front 5

The concept of a generalized stress response was developed by

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Hans Selye

Front 6

Glucocorticoids are released from the

Back 6

Hypothalamus and pituitary gland

Front 7

An important advance in the study of the physiology of stress came with the discovery in the 1990s that stress triggers that stress triggers the release of __________, which play a role in inflammation and fever.

Back 7

Cytokines

Front 8

Subordination stress, similar to what you saw in the video that features baboons, is most readily investigated in species that form

Back 8

Dominance hierarchies

Front 9

Gastric ulcers are usually caused by

Back 9

Helicobactor pylori: bacteria

Front 10

The immune system has two components: the immune system and the _____________ immune system.

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Adaptive

Front 11

Brief stressors usually do what to the immune system

Back 11

Improvements to the innate immune system

Front 12

Which neural structure has a particularly high number of glucocorticoid receptors?

Back 12

Hippocampus

Front 13

The adult neurogenesis of hippocampal cells is reduced by

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Stress

Front 14

What brain structure runs the endocrine system

Back 14

Pituitary gland

Front 15

The main difficulty in diagnosing psychiatric disorders is that

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Patients suffering from the same disorder often display different symptoms

Patients suffering from different disorders often display many of the same symptoms

Front 16

Hallucinations associated with schizophrenia often take the form of

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Imaginary voices making comments/telling patients what to do

Front 17

The probability that a close biological relative of a patient suffering from schizophrenia will also be diagnosed with schizophrenia is about

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10%

Front 18

Which of the following early experiential factors have been implicated in some cases of schizophrenia

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Birth complications, early infections, autoimmune reactions, toxins, traumatic injury

Front 19

Dopamine agonist is to dopamine antagonist as

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?

Front 20

The clinical effectiveness of typical neuroleptic drugs is positively correlated with the degree to which they bind to

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D2 receptors

Front 21

In general, conventional neuroleptic a tend to be more effective against

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Positive schizophrenic symptoms

Front 22

The dissociative anesthetics, such as ketamine

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Is a psychedelic drug; mimic the negative symptoms of schizophrenia by acting as agonist of glutamate receptors

Front 23

Structural brain imaging studies of schizophrenic patients typically reveal

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?

Front 24

Depressed patients who do not experience periods of mania are said to suffer from ______________ affective disorders

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Unipolar

Front 25

About what percentage of people suffer from clinical depression at some point in their lives

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10%

Front 26

MAO inhibitors are no longer used in the treatment of depression because they

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Block MAPs ability to break down tyamine

Front 27

Prozac

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Antidepressant/tricyclic antidepressant

Front 28

Lithium has often been used as a treatment for

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Bipolar affective disorder

Front 29

Prozac is a slight structural variation of

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Tricyclic antidepressants

Front 30

Several large scale studies have compared the effectiveness of various antidepressants to placebos. These studies have found that

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Psychiatric disorders often respond to placebo treatments

Front 31

The monoamine theory of depression is that depression is associated with

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Los serotonin activity

Front 32

The neuroplasticity theory of depression comes from the discovery that ketamine

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An NMDA glutamate receptor agonist

Front 33

Some success has been reported in treating clinical depression with chronic low-level electrical stimulation of the ______________________ through implanted electrodes

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Anterior cingulate gyrus in the medial prefrontal cortex

Front 34

It has been estimated that benzodiazepines are currently being used by approximately _____ of adult North Americans

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10%

Front 35

Benzodiazepines

Back 35

Works on GABA/tranquilizer

Front 36

An ideal placebo is a control drug that produces the same _____________ effects as the drug that is being tested.

Back 36

Psychological

Front 37

An ideal placebo is a control drug that produces the same _________ effects as the drug that is being tested

Back 37

Psychological