Psychological Disorders

All of the following are positive symptoms of schizophrenia except:

The negative symptoms of schizophrenia:

The positive symptoms of schizophrenia may be caused by:

The fact that the odds of a child born to two parents, both of whom have schizophrenia, is less than 50% suggests that:

Imagine that you have been handed a list of drugs and that beside each drug name is a number that represents the potency of that drug for blocking midbrain dopamine receptors (where a low number means a greater potency at blocking). Which would you choose for the treatment of schizophrenia?

Administration of high doses of which of the following drugs would be expected to produce the positive symptoms of schizophrenia:

John has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and has shown improvement in positive symptoms while taking chlorpromazine (CPZ). John may be at risk of his positive symptoms returning if he:

The mesolimbic pathway projects from the ___________ to the __________:

Clozapine is referred to as an "atypical" antipsychotic drug because it:

The negative symptoms of schizophrenia may be related to:

Which of the following suggests that schizophrenia may be associated with atypical neuroanatomy:

The major affective disorders are also known as:

_______________ is/are NOT an effective treatment for unipolar depression

The ability of fluoxetine (Prozac) to function as an effective treatment for _____________ is related to its capacity to ____________:

A person with ____________ allele(s) of the gene for the _____________ transporter is at risk for depression