PS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Muscle Relaxant, Lobotomy, Limbic System

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12 Dec 2015
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System for strengthening desired behaviors through application of positive reinforcement. Learning skills by observing and imitating a model who preforms a socially skillful behavior. Use positive reinforcement, extinction, negative reinforcement, or punishment. Successful when traditional therapies are difficult to. Watching someone else = i can do that too! Study of how drugs affect cognitions, emotions, behavior. About 200 million prescriptions written per year. They affect whether: neurotransmitters will be available, available neurotransmitters will cross the synaptic cleft, reuptake can occur. Anti-depressant drugs: tricyclics, monoamine oxidase (mao) inhibitors. Monoamine oxidase breaks down neurotransmitters: selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (ssris) Reduce depressive symptoms more rapidly tricyclics and mao-more. Decline in hospitalizations since 1995 decrease action of dopamine. 2 reduce positive symptoms of schizophrenia (e. g. delusions and hallucinations) No cure remission tics (oral, facial and hands/feet) More recent-fewer motor side effects, (weight gain, diabetes) Different drugs address anxieties tranquilizers fast-acting, short-lived.

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