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Question 71

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The dopamine hypothesis is the theory that schizophrenia is related to:

A) brain abnormalities in the frontal lobe.
B) excess dopamine activity in the brain.
C) reduced dopamine activity in the brain.
D) prenatal or early childhood infection by a particular strain of the flu virus.

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According to the information presented in the Critical Thinking box on smoking and psychological disorders, the lifetime prevalence of developing major depressive disorder is strongly linked to the number of cigarettes smoked.

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Actress Winona Ryder was convicted of felony grand theft for taking more than $5,000 worth of merchandise from a Beverly Hills Saks Fifth Avenue store. People who, like Winona Ryder, have uncontrollable impulses to steal objects even when they have money to pay for the items are said to have:

Cross-cultural research has found that symptoms resembling panic disorder have been reported in many cultures.

_____ is a medication that is commonly used to help control the symptoms of bipolar disorder.

The first evidence of antisocial personality disorder is often seen during childhood or early adolescence, when the child has repeated problems with school authorities or the police.

The text defines psychopathology as a pattern of behavioral or psychological symptoms that causes significant personal distress, impairs the ability to function in one or more important areas of life, or both.

In terms of lifetime prevalence, approximately _____ percent of Americans will be affected by the symptoms of major depressive disorder at some point in their life.

Discuss the prevalence of cigarette smoking among people with mental disorders, and summarize the key research findings showing a link between cigarette smoking and mental disorders.

Compare and contrast the characteristics and possible causes of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.

The Focus on Neuroscience box "Schizophrenia: A Wildfire in the Brain," discussed neuroscientist Paul Thompson's research on adolescent brain development. As compared to normal adolescents, adolescents with early-onset schizophrenia:

Keith was surprised when his boss invited a co-worker to lunch but did not invite him. At first, Keith was convinced that he had not been invited because they wanted to discuss Keith's job performance at lunch. Later, the co-worker told Keith that the boss had taken her to lunch to tell her that she was being laid off. Privately, Keith was relieved because it now made perfect sense to him why he had not been invited to lunch. In this scenario, Keith appears to have:

What evidence is there to support the dopamine hypothesis as an explanation of schizophrenia?

Posttraumatic stress disorder only occurs in response to extreme traumas associated with military combat and war.

Research has shown that women who were exposed to the flu virus during the first trimester of pregnancy:

Evidence that abnormal brain structures may be involved in the development of schizophrenia comes from studies showing that people with schizophrenia have:

According to the findings of the National Comorbidity Study Replication, the lifetime prevalence of anxiety disorders, PTSD, and OCD is 29 percent.

According to "Culture and Human Behavior: Culture-Bound Syndromes," when Chinese psychiatrist Sing Lee researched the incidence of eating disorders in Hong Kong in the early 1980s, the prevalence rate was very low, but today in Hong Kong, Japan, and other Asian countries the incidence of these disorders has skyrocketed.

According to the information presented in the Critical Thinking box on smoking and psychological disorders, people with a mental illness are only half as likely to smoke cigarettes as people with no mental illness.

Typically, schizophrenic hallucinations involve: