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antagonist is a drug that

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blocks a neurotransmitter

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agonist is a drug that

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mimics or increases an effect

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extent for a drug to act depends on affinity and efficacy ..explain

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affinity: measure of a drugs tendency to bind to receptor, ranges strong to weak
efficacy: a drugs effectivness and side effects vary from person to person; tendency to activate receptor

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people with a gene for producing less ______ metabolize acetaldehyde from alcohol more slowly and therefore

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acetaldehyde dehydrogenase, drink less

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alcoholics that develop alcohol problems before age 25 tend to

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have family history and genetic predisposition

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probability for sons of alcholics who show less than average intoxication have greater than ___% chance developing alcoholism

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60

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need to consider what 3 efffects of drug use

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effects while drug is in the brain, effects that occur in withdrawl, effects responsible for cravings

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_____ drugs directly increase dopmaine and ____ indirectly increase it

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stimulants, opiates

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rats would push a lever to produce electrical

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self stimulation of the brain

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particularly the ______ works in releasing dopamine and reinforcing experieences of all types

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nucleus accumbens

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studies in rats show repeated exposure to an addictive substance alters receptors to become more responsive to the addictive substance so they

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become less responsive to other stimuli

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what is the role of the insula

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role in craving and pleasure, in frontal lobe

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damage in insula led to

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loss of urge to smoke ciggarettes

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people with excessive social media use show abnormalities in the

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insula

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to a large extent drug tolerance is

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learned

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one hypothesis is that addictive behavior is an attempt to avoid withdrawal symptoms, a modified hypothesis is that

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a person with addiction may use the substance to cope with stress

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biology tolerance vs functional tolerance

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biology: metabolic,,,body gets rid of it faster
functional: up and down regulation of receptors

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disulfiram is an ___ techniques and results in

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antaabuse, sickness after drinking to associate them

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how does nalozone help alocholics

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block opiate receptors and decreases pleasure from alcohol

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drug effectivness to help alcoholism varies with

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users motivation to quit

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why does opiates cause overdoses freequently

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have a lot of opiote receptors in brainstem which is repsonsible for breathing…maloxone kicks fentanyl off really fast, can produce harsh withdraw

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what is methadone

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less dangerous , similar to heroine and morhpine, used to reduce withdrawl without high, still addicted ….rush and withdrawl both reduces

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another way to combat opiate abuse is to block brains reward circitory. the problem with this is that

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you would lose all pleasurable quality would likely result in anhedonia

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buprenorphine and LAAM are drugs similar to

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methadone

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major depressive disorder effects ___ of people within a given year and ___ life time prevelance
5 percent, 10 percent
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whats more common long term depression or periodic episodes of depression
periodic episodes
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even tho depression is equally common in boys and girls
it it more common in girl teens
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late onsent depression after 45 is linked to relatives with
circlitory problems
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what is a form of evidence that the effect of a gene varies with the enviroment
ppl with short form of serotonin transporter gene who experienced stressful experience had a major increase in probability od experiencing depression. increased with number of stressful experiences too. long form of gene less suseptible to dressful events and one long one short had moderate risk
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two abnormalities of hemispeheric dominance in depressive people
descreased activity in left prefrontal cortex, increased activity in right prefrontal cortex people with depression tend to gaze to left when asked to do a verbal task when most people gaze to right
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when looking at tissue of depressed people we see reduced _____ volume
hippocampul
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how to tricylics work
block transporter proteins that reabsorb serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine -flood synapse with serotonin dorwsiness dry mouth difficulting urinating
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exmaples of snris..unlike others they may aslo improve
effexor and cymblata..memory
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what do MAOIS do
block the enzyme monoamine oxisdase that metabolizes catecholamines and serotonin into inactive forms...results more transmitters avaialbel...only used if others not effective as high blood pressure can happen with some food
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wellbutrin..inhibits reuptake of dopamine and some extent norepinephrine but not serotontin
____ is an atypical antidepressant drug and it
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what does ketamine do
antagonizes NDMA type glutamate receptors
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have to be careful with st hohns wart because
increases production of a liver enzyme that decreases the effectivness of other medications
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true or false: most people with dperession have normal levels of neurotransmitters
true
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people with depression have lower than average ____ which is important for
BDNF, brain derived neurotrophic factor...synaptic plasticity
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prolonged use of antidepressants increases
BDNF production
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as a result of lower BDNF people with depression show
smaller than average hippocampus, impaired learning, reduced production of hippocampul neurons
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proliferation of new neurons in the ____ is improtant for antidperessant effext
hippocampus
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whcih supplemtns might be helpful to depression
omega 3 fatty acids and b vitmains
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ect is thought to
proliferate neruons in hippocampus and increase BDNF
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what is etc
electircally induced seizure used for the treatment of severe depression
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ect was origonally used for
schizophrenia
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how do altered sleep patterns impact depression
- enter REM sleep sooner - sleep pattern disruption increases chance of depresison later on - periodic sleep deprivation sometimes helpful restting circadian rythym
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ppl with depression take __ mins to enter rem when usually ___
40 minutes, 80 minutes
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sleep problems usually ____ depression
precede
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many people with SAD have a mutation on gene responsible for regulating
circadian rythyms
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describe deep brain stimulation
battery poweed device into brain to brain to deliver periodic stumation targetinf similar brain areas as antiepressants
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onet of bipolar disorder is usually
teens or early 20a
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brains use of _____ increases during periods of mania and decreases during episodes of depression
mania
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what are the drugs for bipolar
valproate and carbamazepine
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drugs for bipolar work by
decreasing glutamate activity, blocking synthensis brain chemical arachidonic acid
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whats another way can intensley help bipolar disorder
regulating sleep
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schizophrenia is characterized by deterioating ability to fucntion in every day life for at least 6 months paied with at least 2 of these symptoms includign at least one of first three
``` hallucinations delusions disorganized speech grossly disorganized behavior weak or absent signs of emotion, speech, socialization ```
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most treatments of schizophrenia target the ___ symptoms
postive
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3 types of symptoms in schizophrenia
positve symptoms negative symptoms ; absent behaviors that should be present cognitve symptoms: limitation of thought and reasoning,,,difficulting understanding abstract concepts
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some conditions that resemble schizophrenia
hearing deficits , butritional abnormalities, substance abuse, huntingtons disease
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who does schizoohrenia impact more men or women
men
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women tend to have schizophrenic breakdowns before pregnancy with ____ chidlren and after pregnancy with ___ children
female, male
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world wide percent schizophrenia
half of one percent
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greater similarity between dizigotic twins with schziophrenia suggests
prenatal/post natal enviroment
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studies of adopted children with schizophrenia show
growing up dysfunctional home magnifies risk
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schizophrenia possibly caused by
new gene mutations or microdeletion of chromosomes
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____ which is disrupted in schizophrenia gene controls rate of generation of new neurons
DISC1
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what is the nerudevelopment hypothesis of schizophrenia
abnormalities occur in prenatal or neonatal nervous system development..mild abnoramlities of brain anatomy and major abnormalities in bheavior
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evidence for the neurodevelopmental hypothesis
- several kinds of prenatal or neonatal difficulties are linked to late schizophrenia - people with schizophrenia have minor brain abnormalities that orginiate early in life
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mild brain abnormalities in people with schizophrenia
-less gray and white matter -larger than average ventricles -minor abnormalities in subcortical areas -smaller hippocampus - lateralization differences in people with schizophrenia -lower than activity in left hempisphere
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in people with schizophrenia ______ one of the slowest brain areas to mature
dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
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most cases of schizophrenia not diagnosed unil ___ but
20 or later, problems observed in childhood such as impulse control attention and memory
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describe lateralization differences in people with schizophrenia
-right planum temporale slightly larger -lower than normal activity in left hemisphere more likely to be left handed
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what is main drug used to treat schizophrenia
chloropromazine
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what do antipsychotics do
block dopamine receptors
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two chemical families of anti psychotics that treat schizophrenia
phenothiazines | butryophenones
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two evidence of dopamine hypothesis
- substance induced psychotic disorder: hallucinations and delusions resulting from repeated large doses of methamphetamines cocaine etc which prolong activity at dopamine synapses - research indicated increased activity specifically at D2 receptor (twice as many)
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what is the mesolimbocortical system
-set of neurons that project from the midbrain tegmentum to the limbic system and pre frontal cortex...site where drugs that block dopamine synapses produce their effect
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where do drugs thaat block dopamine synapses produce their benefits
mesolimbocortical system
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why do drugs also block dopamine in the mesostriatal system? what is the result
cause drugs arent selective.....tardile dyskinesia, tremors and involuntary movemetns
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why does the dyskenisa result from dopamine blockers
reduce dopmaine available to motor system
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the glutamate hypothesis is related to reduced glutamate synase activity in what brain areas
prefrontal cortex and hippocampus
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what is the relationship between glutamate and dopamine
dopamine inhibits glutamate release and glutamate stimulates neurons that inhbit dopamine release,,,so increased dopamine produces same effects as decreases glutamate
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describe PCP and the glutamate hypothesis
support fo rit. its effects inhibit the NMDA glutamate receptors. large doses produces both postive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia. little psychotic repsonse in adolecents but after puberty same as schizophrenia. it produces a relapse for someone whos receovered from schizophrenia
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is autism more common in boys or girl
boys
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adequate amounts of _____ during pregnancy halves the risk of having an autistic child
folic acid, vitamin b 9
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many cases of autism may result from
mutations and microdeletions in one or more genes
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some mothers of children with autism have antibodies
that attack certain brain proteins
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____ sometimes reduces stereotyped behaviors in autism but has serious side effects
respiridone
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behavior treatments focus on
attention and reinforcing favorable behaviors

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