Electroconvulsive therapy
a) is highly effective in treating depression, especially depression with psychotic features.
b) is so risky that it is only reserved for people who are actively suicidal.
c) is no longer used in the treatment of depression.
d) is usually recommended if a person does not respond to SSRIs in the second week of treatment.
Question 2An expert on the neurobiology of autistic disorder was asked to present an overview of research aimed at identifying a cause of the disorder. Which of the following titles would most accurately represent the state of knowledge?
a) Brain wave patterns are the key
b) Neurobiological causes: Likely, but which ones?
c) Slow growing tumors in the frontal lobes have a wide impact
d) The brain does not distinguish schizophrenia from autistic disorder
Question 3What community life style and cultural factors have researchers found to be related to CHD?
What will be an ideal response?
Question 4Folstein and Rutter studied sets of identical twins in which only one child was autistic. What did they find to be associated with autism of the affected child?
a) inheritance of a recessive trait
b) brain injury at or just after birth
c) immunological rejection in utero
d) infection that passed the placenta
Question 5Covert sensitization is a technique that teaches patients to associate drinking with
a) nausea and vomiting.
b) social pressure to stop.
c) public and social events.
d) aversive images and fantasies.
Question 6What has research shown concerning the tendency for autistic disorder
to run in families?
a) Autistic disorder does not run in families.
b) The tendency for autistic disorder to occur in families seems related
to environmental toxins.
c) Families with an autistic child have an elevated risk of having another child with autistic disorder.
d) Families with high rates of schizophrenia are at elevated risk for having children with autistic disorder.
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