Chapter 13- Disorders
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- Chlorpromazine (thorazine)
- developed to help allergies, but effected people w/ psychotic diseases(schizophrenia).. 20% prognosis to 70% (1950's)
- Electroconvulsive therapy
- electrical current is passed thru brain; "reset mechanism" like a seizure. no memory of hospitalization for patients still used for depression (treatment)
- Manic depression
- mental illness where patient suffers from severe mood swings of extreme highs (super achievement) and extreme lows (depression, suicide)
- serotonin
- neurotransmitter that is deficient during 'depressive episode'
- amyloid plaques
- accumulation of protein aggregates (alzheimer's)
- hippocampus
- first region affected by amyloid plaques (alzheimer's)
- protein fibrils
- prevents neural transmission and eventually cell death
- insulin shock therapy
- massive doses of insulin to induce hypoglycemia (treatment)
- prefrontal lobotomy
- remove parts of frontal lobe (treatment)
- deinstitutionalization
- release mentally ill from institutions, became homeless. communities couldn't deal. life was often worse.
- Alzheimer's
- begins in hippocampus, caused by accumulation amyloid plaques in brain around nerve cells. blocks communication between nerve cells. cell death.