Abnormal pt.15

Question 1

Pre-Drug Therapy

Answer 1

• Prior to the discovery of psychological drugs, hospitals had few options with which to treat patients
• Most early treatment techniques are today considered archaic and sometimes cruel

Question 2

Biomedical Therapy

Answer 2

The treatment of psychological disorders by changing the brain’s functioning with prescribed drugs, electroconvulsive therapy, or surgery

Question 3

Antipsychotic Drugs

Answer 3

A category of medications used primarily to treat schizophrenia

• Reduces the levels of hallucinations and delusions and distorted thinking
• Drugs work by blocking the activity of dopamine

Question 4

Thorazine

Answer 4

• One of the first antipsychotic drugs
• Side effects include: dry mouth, blurred vision, constipation, and tardive dyskinesia
• Tardive dyskinesia – a permanent condition of muscle tremors

Question 5

Clozaril

Answer 5

An antipsychotic drug with less side effects than Thorazine but can cause damage to white blood cells therefore patients need to be tested

Question 6

Antianxiety Drugs

Answer 6

A category of medications used to treat people undergoing significant stress; they can be helpful in treating people with anxiety disorders

• Boosts levels of the neurotransmitter GABA
• Can produced dependency
• Includes Valium, Librium and Xanax
• Can cause death if mixed with alcohol

Question 7

Antidepressant Drugs

Answer 7

A category of medications used primarily to boost serotonin levels in the brain; they can be helpful in treating major depression

Question 8

Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors

Answer 8

• Classification of antidepressants which work by blocking the reuptake of serotonin after it has been released
• Includes: Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil

Question 9

Lithium

Answer 9

• Medication used primarily to treat bipolar disorders
• Not known how or why Lithium works but a large number of bipolar patients reports improvement with the drug