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| 6767128461 | delusion | a false belief that is strongly held in spite of contrary evidence | 0 | |
| 6767130744 | schizophrenia | a severe psychopathological disorder characterized by negative symptoms such as emotional withdrawal and flat affect, and by positive symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions, and excited motor behavior | 1 | |
| 6767142703 | positive symptom | in psychiatry, an abnormal behavioral state. Examples include, hallucinations, delusions, and excited motor behavior | 2 | |
| 6767147409 | negative symptom | in psychiatry, an abnormality that reflects insufficient functioning. Examples include emotional and social withdrawal, and blunted affect | 3 | |
| 6767154259 | concordance | sharing of a characteristic by both individuals of a pair of twins | 4 | |
| 6767168765 | hypofrontality hypothesis | the idea that schizophrenia may reflect underactivation of the frontal lobes | 5 | |
| 6767175258 | lobotomy | the surgical separation of a portion of the frontal lobes from the rest of the brain, once used as a treatment for schizophrenia and many other ailments | 6 | |
| 6767186025 | dyskinesia | difficulty or distortion in voluntary movement | 7 | |
| 6767189040 | tardive dyskinesia | a disorder associated with typical antipsychotic use, and characterized by involuntary movements, especially of the face and mouth | 8 | |
| 6767196928 | supersensitivity psychosis | an exaggerated "rebound" psychosis that may emerge when doses of antipsychotic medication are reduced | 9 | |
| 6767201040 | chlorpromazine | an early antisychotic drug that revolutionaized the treatment of schizophrenia | 10 | |
| 6767205562 | antipsychotic | any of a class of drugs that alleviate symptoms of schizophrenia, typically by blocking dopamine receptors | 11 | |
| 6767211726 | dopamine hypothesis | the idea that schizophrenia results from either excessive levels of synaptic dopamine or excessive postsynaptic sensitivity to dompamine | 12 | |
| 6767218048 | typical antipsychotic | an antischizophrenic drug that shows antagonist activity at dopamine D2 receptors | 13 | |
| 6767224937 | atypical antipsychotic | an antipsychotic drug that has primary actions other than or in addition to the dopamine D2 receptor antagonism that characterizes the typical antipsychotics | 14 | |
| 6767297445 | clozapin | an atypical antipsychotic | 15 | |
| 6767297467 | phencyclidine (PCP) | an anesthetic agent that is also a psychedelic drug. ______ makes many people feel dissociated from themselves and their environment | 16 | |
| 6767304642 | psychotomimetic | a drug that induces a state resembling schizophrenia | 17 | |
| 6767307455 | ketamine | a dissociative anesthetic drug, similar to PCP, that acts as an NMDA receptor antagonist | 18 | |
| 6767312355 | glutamate hypothesis | the idea that schizophrenia may be caused, in part, by understimulation of glutamate receptors | 19 | |
| 6767341716 | depression | a psychiatric condition characterized by such symptoms as an unhappy mood; loss of interests, energy, and appetite; and difficulty concentrating | 20 | |
| 6767350856 | electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT) | a last-resort treatment for unmanageable depression, in which a strong electrical current is passed through the brain, causing a seizure | 21 | |
| 6767380006 | repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) | a noninvasive treatment in which repeated pulses of focused magnetic energy are used to stimulate the cortex through the scalp | 22 | |
| 6767386782 | monoamine oxidase (MAO) | an enzyme that breaks down monoamine neurotransmitters, thereby inactivating monoamine transmitters | 23 | |
| 6767392668 | selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) | an antidepressant drug that blocks the reuptake of transmitter at serotonergic synapses | 24 | |
| 6767396107 | meta-analysis | a type of quantitative review of a field of research, in which the results of multiple previous studies are combined in order to identify overall patterns that are consistent across studies | 25 | |
| 6767406388 | cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) | Psychotherapy aimed at correcting negative thinking and consciously changing behaviors as a way of changing feelings | 26 | |
| 6767410464 | deep brain stimulation (DBS) | Mild electrical stimulation through an electrode that is surgically implanted deep in the brain | 27 | |
| 6767414155 | postpartum depression | a bout of depression that afflicts a woman either immediately before or after giving birth | 28 | |
| 6767418330 | learned helplessness | a learning paradigm in which individuals are subjected to inescapable, unpleasant conditions | 29 | |
| 6767436060 | bipolar disorder | a psychiatric disorder characterized by periods of depression that alternate with excessive, expansive moods | 30 | |
| 6767440402 | lithium | an element that, administered to patients, often relieves the symptoms of bipolar disorder | 31 | |
| 6767445965 | anxiety disorder | any of a class of psychological disorders that includes recurrent panic states, generalized persistent anxiety disorders, and posttraumatic stress disorder | 32 | |
| 6767451468 | benzodiazepine | any of a class of antianxiety drugs that are agonists of GABA receptors in the central nervous system. One example is diazepam (Valium) | 33 | |
| 6767458496 | anxiolytic | a substance that is used to combat anxiety. Examples include alcohol, opiates, barbiturates, and the benxodiazepines | 34 | |
| 6767466949 | posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) | a disorder in which memories of an unpleasant episode repeatedly plague the victim | 35 | |
| 6767470378 | fear conditioning | a form of classical conditioning in which fear comes to be associated with previously neutral stimuli | 36 | |
| 6767474810 | obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) | an anxiety disorder in which the affected individual experiences recurrent unwanted thoughts and engages in repetitive behaviors without reason or the ability to stop | 37 | |
| 6767487508 | tourette's syndrome | a disorder involving heightened sensitivity to sensory stimuli that may be accompanied by verbal or physical tics | 38 |
