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Test Bank for Behavioral Neuroscience, 9th Editio by Marc Breedlove, Neil Watson Chapter 16 Psychopathology Biological Basis of Behavioral Disorders

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Chapter 16: Psychopathology: Biological Basis of Behavioral Disorder

1. Dissociative thinking impaired logical thought is a key symptom of
schizophrenia

2. schizophrenia -affects 1% of pop
- dissociative thinking, auditory haluc, personal-
ized delusions (false beliefs), & changes in affect
(emotion)
-positive & negative symptoms

3. monozygotic "identical" twins share identical genes

4. dizygotic "fraternal" have half of their genes in common

5. Neurobiology of schiz - smaller hippocampus & amygdala
- thicker corpus callosum
- loss of gray matter in frontal lobes
- PET shows less metabolic activity
-enlarged ventricles (males-bigger)

6. hypofrontality hypothe- suggests that schizophrenia may be caused by
sis underactivation of the frontal lobes

7. depression most common mood disorder
-inheritance is a factor
-increased activity in prefrontal & amygdala

8. sleep and depression -less stage 3
-more stage 1 & 2
-hit REM sleep earlier

9. Depression treatments -Electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT)
-Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
-inhibit serotonin reuptake

10. Electroconvulsive shock causes a seizure by passing an electrical current
therapy through the brain

11. Transcranial Magnetic -alternative to ECT
Stimulation -less drastic

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