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What is a drug
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any substance other than food that affects our bodies or minds
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What is a common term used in place of the word drug
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substance
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What are some temporary effects of drugs
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intoxication and halloucinations
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What are some long term problems with drugs
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substance abuse and addiction
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Define substance abuse
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an excessive reliance on a drug that messes up personal relationship and the user
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Define substance dependance
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addiction, people not only abuse drugs but center their lives around it
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What is tolerance
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need a higher amount to produce the same effect
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What is withdrawl
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unplesant symptoms that occur when a person stops taking a drug
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What are the catagories of drugs
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depressants slow the central nervous system , stimulants speed up the central nervous system, hallucinogens, and cannibis substances make a mixture of the other three
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What are some depressants
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alcohol and sedative- hypnotic drugs
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What is binge drinking
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five or more drinks on one occasion
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What is the property in alcoholic beverages that alters the mind
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ethynol alchol
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What does GABA
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carries a stop firing message
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Do wemon become more intoxicated than men on an equal dose
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yes because of alchol dehydrogenace
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What makes a person sober
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time and a metabolism
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What ethnicity has the highest alchol problem
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native americans
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What ethnicity has the lowest alchol problem
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Chinese because of a problem with alchol dehydrogenace
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What is delirium tremens
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it is a very strong reaction to withdrawl causing hallucinations
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How do alcholics become mal-nourished
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they drink alot and this fills them up but gives them no nutritional content
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What is Korsakoff's syndrome
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alchol related memory loss
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Describe what schizophrena
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A psychotic disorder in which personal social and occupational functioning deteriorate as a result of strange perceptions disturbed thought processes unusual emotions and motor abnormalities
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What is the loss of contact with reality
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psychosis
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What did bleuler mean with the name schitzophreania
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a fragmentation of thought processes, a split between thoughts and emotions, withdrawl from reality
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What is the downward drift theory
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when a psychological disorder leads people down in economic status
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Are african americans more prone to schitzo
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yes
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What are the catagories of symptoms of schitzophreania
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positive( excess of thought, emotion, or behavion), negative( deficits in thought, emotion, or behavior), and psychomotor symptoms
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What gender of schitzo is more likely to display negative symptoms
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men
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What are some examples of positive symptoms
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delusions, disorganized thinking and speech, hightened perceptions and hallucinations
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What is a delusion
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an idea that a psychotic believes wholeheartedly but has no basis in fact
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What is a very paranoid set of dilusions
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Delusions of persecution
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What is a delusional act in which a person attaches special meaning to the actions of others or to various objects or events
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delusions of reference
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What is a delusion of grandure
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you believe that you are a famous or better person
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What is a delusional thought in which a person believes their emotions among other things are being controlled by another person
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Delusion of control
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what is a formal thought disorder
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when a schizo is not able to think logically and speak in peculiar ways
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What is a loose association or derailment
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a common thinking disturbance in schizophrenia characterized by rapid shifts from one topic of conversation to another
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What are neologisms
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they are made up words
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What is perseveration
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where people repete their thoughts and words multiple time s
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What is the use of clange
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rhyme
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What is sa hallucination
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experiencing perceptions in the absence of external stimuli
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What is an inappropriate affect
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a display of emotions that are unsuited to the situation a symptom of schizophrenia
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Give and example of an inappropiate affect
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smiling at a feuneral
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What are th negative symptoms
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poverty of speech blunted and flat affect loss of volition and social withdrawal
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What is alogia or poverty of speech
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a decrease in speech
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What is the blunted and flat affect
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A lack of expressed emotions
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What is avolition or loss of volition
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a symptom of schizophrenia markedd by apathy and an inability to start or complete a course of action
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What is the problem with social withdrawl of schizo's
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it distances them further from society helping to make thier dilusions more powerful
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What are psychomotor symptoms
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awkward movements or repeted odd gestures
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What is the psychomotor disorder where people do not move for long periods of time
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catatonia
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What are the three phases of schizophrenia
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prodromal( this is the beginning of the deterioration) active (Triggered by stress in the persons life people display symptoms) and residual( people return to the prodromal phase except they have light symptoms and more negative ones)
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When is there a good chance for recovery from schitzo
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when the people had normal functioning before the disorder or developed during middle age
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When can someone truly be called schizophrenic
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after six months and after showing a deterioration
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What are the types of schizo's
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hebephrenic( disorganized), catatonic, and paranoid, as well as undifferentiated, and residual
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Is schizo more common among relative
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yes
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What to people believe is the cause of schizophrenia
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to much dopamine
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What is the type of drug that is used to get rid of schizophrenia
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antipsychotic drugs or the phenothiazines
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What is a challenge to the dopamine hypothesis
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atypical antipsychotics because they slow not only dopamine but also seritonin
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What is another cause of schizo besides dopamine and viral problems
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abnormal brain structure( smaller brain and longer ventricles
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What are some of the principles of the viral theory
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that a virus in the woumb causes schizo
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What is the process in the development of schizo in the psychodynamic approach
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the regression to a pre ego stage and the effotrs to reestabligh ego control
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What is the cause of schizo in the psychodynamic approach
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cold or unnutering parents
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Is the schizophrenic mother plausable
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no
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