Deck 16: Essay

Question 1

What can happen if a person has multiple concussions throughout life?

Answer 1

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Question 2

List and describe four major types of behavioral therapies for behavioral disorders outlined in your text.

Answer 2

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Question 3

List at least five factors that may lead to the onset of seizures.

Answer 3

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Question 4

What two kinds of behavioral effects result from traumatic brain injuries?

Question 5

Compare and contrast the symptoms of focal and generalized seizures.

Question 6

What treatments are available to reduce epileptic seizures?

Question 7

What are neuroprotectants? Why are they used?

Question 8

Differentiate between coup and contrecoup effects during a traumatic brain injury.Give an example.

Question 9

What are the symptoms and causes of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? What brain regions does it affect?

Question 10

What are the proposed causes of multiple sclerosis?

Question 11

What is chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)? What neural changes accompany it?

Question 12

What kinds of neurosurgeries have been used in treating Parkinson disease?

Question 13

What processes following an ischemic stroke result in further brain damage?

Question 14

What is the MOST common form of brain damage in people under 40?

Question 15

Explain the Freudian terms id,ego,and superego.What brain structures might these concepts be related to?

Question 16

What is electroconvulsive therapy? Why is it used? How does it affect the brain?

Question 17

What is tardive dyskinesia? Why is it sometimes observed in psychiatric patients?

Question 18

What are the symptoms and causes of phenylketonuria?

Question 19

Describe and explain at least four of the major challenges faced by researchers who want to study the disordered brain.

Question 20

What is magnetic resonance spectroscopy? How is it used to diagnose traumatic brain injury?

Question 21

What neurotransmitter systems are affected in schizophrenia?

Question 22

List the six diagnostic symptoms of schizophrenia.

Question 23

What neural changes do Parkinson and Alzheimer disease have in common?

Question 24

What neurotransmitter system(s)are involved in anxiety? What types of drugs are used to treat anxiety disorders?

Question 25

How is the brain of a person with schizophrenia different from the brain of a person without it?

Question 26

What are prions? What neurological diseases may be caused by prions?

Question 27

What are the anatomical correlates of Alzheimer disease?

Question 28

What neurotransmitters appear to be involved in depression?

Question 29

Give examples of positive and negative symptoms of Parkinson disease.

Question 30

What effects do antidepressant drugs like SSRIs have on the brain?

Question 31

What is the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis? What role does it play in depression?