Module 56: the biomedical therapies and preventing psychological disorders
Biomedical therapy
Prescribed medication or procedures that act directly on the persons physiology
Psychopharmacology
The study of the effects of drugs on the mind and behavior
Antipsychotic drugs
Drugs used to treat, schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders Such as Thorazine
Anti-anxiety drugs
Drugs used to control, anxiety and agitation, such as Xanax, Glopen and Ativan. They depress the central nervous system activity.
Anti-depressant drugs
Drugs used to treat depressive disorders, anxiety, disorders, obsessive, compulsive, and related disorders, and post traumatic stress disorder. They work by increasing the availability of neurotransmitter such as nor epinephrine or serotonin, which elevate arousal in mood.
Psychedelic drugs
Hallucinogenic drugs used to treat depressive disorders, anxiety, disorders, post, traumatic stress, disorders, and substance use disorders these drugs, cause temporary, visual, psychological, and auditory changes, and an altered state of consciousness often called a psych, psychedelic experience or trip
Electroconvulsive therapy ECT
Manipulates the brain with mild shock, a biomedical therapy for severe and treatment, resistant depressant, and which a brief election current is sent through the brain oven and sides person
Transcranial magnetic stimulation TMS
The application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain, used to simulate or suppress brain activity
Psychosurgery
The most drastic and least used medical intervention surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue to change behavior
Lobotomy
Surgical procedure once used to become uncontrollably, emotional or violent patients, the procedure cut the nerves to connect the frontal lobes to the emotion controlling centers of the inner brain
Resilience
The personal strength that helps people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma
Post traumatic growth
Positive psychological changes following a struggle with challenging circumstances, and life crisis
The double blind technique
Depakote
Controls seizures and bipolar disorder
Xanax
Anti anxiety
Lithium
Reduces suicidal
Thorazine
Antipsychotic medication
Prozac
Serotonin booster
Biomedical therapy
Prescribed medication or procedures that act directly on the persons physiology
Psychopharmacology
The study of the effects of drugs on the mind and behavior
Antipsychotic drugs
Drugs used to treat, schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders Such as Thorazine
Anti-anxiety drugs
Drugs used to control, anxiety and agitation, such as Xanax, Glopen and Ativan. They depress the central nervous system activity.
Anti-depressant drugs
Drugs used to treat depressive disorders, anxiety, disorders, obsessive, compulsive, and related disorders, and post traumatic stress disorder. They work by increasing the availability of neurotransmitter such as nor epinephrine or serotonin, which elevate arousal in mood.
Psychedelic drugs
Hallucinogenic drugs used to treat depressive disorders, anxiety, disorders, post, traumatic stress, disorders, and substance use disorders these drugs, cause temporary, visual, psychological, and auditory changes, and an altered state of consciousness often called a psych, psychedelic experience or trip
Electroconvulsive therapy ECT
Manipulates the brain with mild shock, a biomedical therapy for severe and treatment, resistant depressant, and which a brief election current is sent through the brain oven and sides person
Transcranial magnetic stimulation TMS
The application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain, used to simulate or suppress brain activity
Psychosurgery
The most drastic and least used medical intervention surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue to change behavior
Lobotomy
Surgical procedure once used to become uncontrollably, emotional or violent patients, the procedure cut the nerves to connect the frontal lobes to the emotion controlling centers of the inner brain
Resilience
The personal strength that helps people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma
Post traumatic growth
Positive psychological changes following a struggle with challenging circumstances, and life crisis
The double blind technique
Depakote
Controls seizures and bipolar disorder
Xanax
Anti anxiety
Lithium
Reduces suicidal
Thorazine
Antipsychotic medication
Prozac
Serotonin booster
