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1. Most biomedical therapies conceive of mental disorders as?
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Problems in the brain
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2. Jennys depression is being treated through a procedure in which electrodes are placed on both sides of her head and a brief current is turned on. The current triggers a seizure that lasts about a minute causing her body to convulse. Her treatment is known as?
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Electro Convulsive Therapy (ECT)
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3. ECT is particularly important because it works quickly. It alleviates symptoms of depression in a ______ course of treatment, as compared with the _____ time window for drug therapies.
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3 or 4 day; 1 to 2 week
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ECT has proven extremely successful at alleviating the symptoms associated with ____.
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serious depression
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5. True or False- ECT has proven extremely successful at quickly alleviating the symptoms of serious depression
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True
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6. A friends grandma is about to undergo ECT. He is worried about what will happen to her so he asks you what side effects can be expected. You should tell him that his grandma will?
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Likely experience temporary disorientation and some memory problems
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7. Psychosurgery is defined as
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Any surgical procedure that destroys selected areas of the brain believed to be involved in emotional disorders or violent impulsive behavior.
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8. Imagine you are reading the case of a woman that has undergone an operation known as prefrontal lobotomy, you can expect that after the operation the woman will ____?
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She will have difficulties with planning and will show emotional flatness
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9. In the history of the treatment of mental disorders nothing can rival the revolution created by ____?
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Drug Therapies
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10. The number of patients in mental hospitals in the US has decreased since the 1950s primarily as a result of _____?
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Drug Therapies
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