PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Monoamine Oxidase, Tricyclic Antidepressant, Antipsychotic

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Drug treatments: psychotropic drugs: medications designed to alter psychological functioning, designed to cross the blood-brain barrier. Antianxiety drugs: prescribed to alleviate nervousness and tension, and to prevent/reduce panic attacks, they affect the activity of gamma-aminobutyric acid (gaba, effects are relative short-lived, drugs have the potential to induced abuse and withdraw symptoms. Technological and surgical methods: frontal lobotomy: surgically removing regions of the cortex in hope of curing psychological problems, leucotomy: surgical destruction of brain tissues in the prefrontal cortex. Focal lesions: small areas of brain tissue that are surgically destroyed, only used in severe cases when all other treatments have not worked. Electroconvulsive therapy (ect: passing an electrical current through the brain in order to induce a temporary seizure, ect changes the functional connectivity of the prefrontal cortices, diminishing some and enhancing others. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (tms: therapeutic technique in which a focal area of the brain is exposed to a powerful magnetic.

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