A Major Depressive Episode requires ________ of nine symptoms, including a depressed mood and/or diminished interest in activities for at least two weeks.

Which theory proposes that stressors which disrupt daily routines can trigger relapses in mood disorders?

The earliest anti-depressant medications were __________.

April is starting to spend money quickly to buy the fanciest clothes, car, and hotel rooms because she has an inflated sense of self-importance and self-worth, believing she deserves these things due to her superior powers and abilities. What symptom of mania is April displaying?

Research indicates that typically,

While there are many types of effective psychotherapies many people decide to add psychiatric medications to their treatment. Why is this the case?

Gregory is going to graduate school in a psychology program, and he is most interested in studying how drugs affect the brain and behavior. Gregory is probably attending a graduate program in __________.

_________ occurs primarily in the liver and involves the breakdown of substances.

Psychopharmacology can best be defined as:

Parisa has schizophrenia and regularly experiences hallucinations. According to the research, which type of hallucination is most common in people who have schizophrenia?

Schizophrenia is often characterized by the following symptoms:

Which of the following is a risk factor for schizophrenia?

Drugs blocking which of the following neurotransmitters have been shown to be an effective treatment of psychotic disorders, like schizophrenia?

In order to be diagnosed with brief psychotic disorder, a person must have symptoms that last no longer than __________.

Dianne hears voices commanding her to warn people that alien beings from another planet are stealing children, so she tells parents outside a movie theatre to take their children safely home. Dianne may be diagnosed with:

Leanora recently found out that she had been awarded a scholarship to the graduate school that was first on her list. Upon receiving the news, she did not smile or show any emotion, and just said, "well that's good," sighed, and walked away. This lack of emotional expression is a symptom of schizophrenia called __________.

Which of the following individuals is experiencing a grandiose delusion?

Delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and catatonia are symptoms of which category of disorders?

Neuroimaging techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography have provided evidence that problems in the __________ may contribute to the delusions experienced by those with schizophrenia.