Deck 27: Extension: C - Psychiatric and Related Disorders

Question 1

One of the paper - and - pencil tests that reveals deficits in the memories of patients with Tourette's syndrome is the _____ test.

A) Wechsler IQ
B) draw-a-man
C) Rey Complex-Figure
D) backward digits

Answer 1

Rey Complex-Figure

Question 2

Schizophrenia and Huntington's disease are both thought to involve abnormalities in the _____ - secreting systems of the brain.

A) acetylcholine
B) glutamate
C) GABA
D) dopamine

Answer 2

glutamate

Question 3

Which is TRUE regarding BDNF?

A) It is upregulated by antidepressant medication.
B) It is underregulated by stress hormones.
C) It disrupts networks involving parietal and medial temporal regions.
D) It decreases glutamate uptake sites in the cingulate cortex.

Answer 3

It is upregulated by antidepressant medication.

Question 4

The positive symptoms of Parkinson's disease include all of the following EXCEPT _____.

A) tremor at rest
B) disorders of posture
C) muscular rigidity
D) involuntary movements

Question 5

Which is NOT classified as an anxiety disorder?

A) panic disorder
B) schizophrenia
C) obsessive-compulsive disorder
D) social phobia

Question 6

Parkinson's disease is the result of the degeneration of the _____.

A) orbital frontal cortex
B) hippocampus
C) substantia nigra
D) premotor cortex

Question 7

Which symptom of Parkinson's disease can manifest as a lack of blinking, blank facial expression, difficulty making repetitive movements, or the absence of rigidity?

A) akinesia
B) disorder of locomotion
C) disorder of righting
D) disturbance of speech

Question 8

The root cause of Huntington's disease has been identified as _____.

A) damage to GABA neurons resulting from brain trauma
B) shrinkage of the cortex due to stress hormones
C) a dominant autosomal gene with complete penetrance
D) a recessive sex-linked gene that is linked to the dopamine system

Question 9

This former director of the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has suggested that the high levels of comorbidity and twin studies suggest clustering of fear - based anxiety disorders and depression.

A) Daniel Weinberger
B) Steven Hyman
C) David Lewis
D) Barbara Lipska

Question 10

Neuritic plaques are one of the brain entities found in _____ disease.

A) Alzheimer's disease
B) Huntington's disease
C) Wilson's disease
D) Tourette's syndrome

Question 11

The abnormal movements seen in adults with Huntington's disease are thought to be caused by the hyperactivity of neurons secreting _____.

A) dopamine
B) acetylcholine
C) GABA
D) B-APP

Question 12

Which region shows a decrease in blood flow and metabolism in depressed patients?

A) the amygdala
B) the medial thalamus
C) the ventromedial prefrontal area
D) the orbital prefrontal area

Question 13

At the peak of psychosurgery's popularity as a therapy for mental disease, there were an estimated _____ psychosurgeries performed in the United States (1936-1978).

A) 200,000
B) 35,000
C) 3 million
D) 147

Question 14

Examination of the Wisconsin Card - Sorting Test with schizophrenics suggests abnormalities in _____.

A) motor programming
B) prefrontal cortex structure and function
C) visual processing
D) dopamine metabolism

Question 15

Post and Weiss hypothesized that in bipolar patients, mood - disorder episodes are initially _____.

A) spontaneous and unrelated to external events
B) precipitated by psychosocial stressors
C) very rapid, cycling daily
D) not effectively treated by medication