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Quiz on Biopsychology MCQs, created by Benjamin Maier on 23/05/2017.
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Question 1

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The major components of an emotional response include:
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  • Feelings and behaviour
  • Behaviour and moods
  • Hormonal secretions and cognition
  • Behavioural and physiological components

Question 2

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The autonomic component of an emotional response functions to:
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  • Mobilise energy for vigorous movement
  • Restore physiological balance after an emotional experience
  • Promote digestion of nutrients
  • Facilitate healing of damaged tissue

Question 3

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The neural systems that comprise fear are integrated by neurons within the:
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  • Hypothalamus
  • Amygdala
  • Ventromedial prefrontal cortex
  • Thalamus

Question 4

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Activation of the _______ nucleus of the _______ elicits an emotional response:
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  • Lateral; Amygdala
  • Central; Amygdala
  • Medial; Hypothalamus
  • Central; Hypothalamus

Question 5

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The expression of an emotional response is inhibited by the input of the:
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  • Lateral amygdala
  • Central amygdala
  • Ventromedial prefrontal cortex
  • Hypothalamus

Question 6

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Which drug would be expected to inhibit aggression:
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  • Haloperidol
  • Cocaine
  • Fluoxetine (Prozac)
  • Amphetamine

Question 7

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A human male who has a long record of assault, arson and murder, would be expected to show __________ levels of ___________ in his cerebrospinal fluid:
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  • elevated; 5-HIAA
  • reduced; 5-HIAA
  • elevated; GABA
  • reduced; GABA

Question 8

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Phineas Gage, who was injured when a steel rod was accidentally driven through his skull, exhibited impulsive, emotional behavior as a result of widespread damage to his:
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  • Occipital Cortex
  • Cingulate Cortex
  • Ventromedial prefrontal cortex
  • Amygdala

Question 9

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Which of the following is a moral dilemma:
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  • Changing the ingredients of a recipe
  • Throwing another person into a grenade to save many others
  • Walking away from a fight
  • Watching someone else throw another person into a grenade to save many others

Question 10

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Elevated levels of which neurotransmitter inhibits aggression:
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  • Glutamate
  • GABA
  • Dopamine
  • Serotonin

Question 11

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A combination of inadequate activation of the ___________ and enhanced activation of the ____________ may result in excessive anger that results in harm to other people:
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  • Prefrontal cortex; hypothalamus
  • Prefrontal cortex; amygdala
  • Amygdala; prefrontal cortex
  • Hypothalamus; prefrontal cortex

Question 12

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The proposition that facial expressions of emotion are innate is supported by the observation that:
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  • The same facial expression for an emotion is observed in all cultures
  • Blind children show different facial emotional expressions that sighted children
  • Some facial expressions are only expressed in adulthood
  • Facial expression of emotion change over time in a culture

Question 13

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A chimeric face is:
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  • A happy face
  • A wrinkled face
  • Created by pasting different facial images to form a single unit
  • Recognisable when upside-down

Question 14

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The ability to recognise negative emotions expressed by others is most likely to be impaired after damage to:
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  • Right hemisphere
  • Somatosensory cortex
  • Cerebellum
  • Basal Ganglia

Question 15

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According to the James-Lange theory, feelings of emotion are:
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  • Culturally determined responses to stimuli
  • Produced by feedback from the behaviours and physiological responses caused by emotion-producing situations
  • Dependent upon the genetic makeup of an individual
  • Produced by activity within the thalamus in response to sensory cues

Question 16

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Which of the following is true of the sex chromosomes?
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  • Factors coded on the Y chromosome control the development of the male sex glands
  • The Y chromosome contains the blueprint for the female foetus
  • The sex chromosomes are the largest among the 23 pairs
  • The mother donates her Y chromosome to form a male foetus

Question 17

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_____________________ exert(s) a defeminising action during prenatal development:
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  • Testosterone
  • Anti-Müllerian hormone
  • Estradiol
  • Estrogens

Question 18

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The size of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis is an indicator of:
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  • Prenatal androgenisation
  • Sexual orientation
  • Ambivalent sexuality
  • Gender identity

Question 19

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The key factor that determines whether the undifferentiated gonads develop into testes is:
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  • The SRY gene located on the Y chromosome
  • The secretion of testosterone from the adrenal glands
  • The SRY gene located on the X chromosome
  • The secretion of androgens from the gonads

Question 20

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A pheromone is a:
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  • Chemical located on the tongue that detects sugar
  • Chemical that is released by one animal that affects the behaviour of another animal
  • Type of enzyme that deactivates cyclic nucleotides
  • Chemical that is released in the body that affects the behaviour of the individual that released it

Question 21

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Which of the following is true of pheromone action in humans?
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  • Menstrual cycles are delayed by exposure to human sweat
  • Women are attracted to the underarm sweat from men
  • Men prefer the smell of t-shirts worn by women during their fertile phase
  • Men and women show decreased sexual behaviour after exposure to pheromones

Question 22

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A hormone that promotes the prenatal development of the Woffian system is said to have a(n):
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  • Defeminising effect
  • Activational effect
  • Masculinising effect
  • Feminising effect

Question 23

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The prenatal development of the internal reproductive structures of the female:
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  • Requires the suppression of the Müllerian system by the anti- Müllerian hormone
  • Requires secretion of estradiol by the pituitary gland
  • Is caused by secretion of progesterone
  • Requires no hormone

Question 24

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The genetic sex of a foetus is determined by:
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  • The hormones released by the pituitary gland during foetal development
  • A single gene on the X chromosome
  • The gonads
  • The sex chromosome inherited from the father

Question 25

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The key event that starts sexual maturation at the onset of puberty is that:
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  • The ovaries and testes release gonadotropic hormones
  • Estradiol and testosterone are released from the hypothalamus
  • The hypothalamus secretes gonadotropin-releasing hormones
  • LH and FSH are released from the hypothalamus

Question 26

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Which of the following is known to speed up the onset of female puberty:
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  • Low levels of body fat
  • High plasma levels of leptin
  • Malnutrition
  • High plasma levels of Estradiol

Question 27

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An increased prevalence of homosexuality/bisexuality is noted in:
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  • Women with congenital adrenal hyperplasia
  • Women with Turner’s Syndrome
  • Men born during the late winter months to stressed mothers
  • Men born with congenital adrenal hyperplasia

Question 28

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The key effect of luteinising hormone (LH) is to:
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  • Just prior to menstruation
  • When estradiol levels are lowest
  • Just after a surge of testosterone from her adrenal glands
  • At a point in the menstrual cycle when estradiol levels are highest

Question 29

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A human female is more likely to initiate sexual activity with her partner:
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  • Just prior to menstruation
  • When estradiol levels are lowest
  • Just after a surge of testosterone from her adrenal glands
  • At a point in the menstrual cycle when estradiol levels are highest

Question 30

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The ________________ would not be considered a human sex organ:
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  • Ovaries
  • Adrenal gland
  • Testes
  • External genitalia

Question 31

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The various stages of sleep are easily distinguished by:
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  • Changes in motor movements
  • Changes in the electrical activity of the brain
  • The quality and quantity of dreams
  • Visible changes in respiration

Question 32

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The transition between wakefulness and sleep is marked by the appearance of which type of EEG waves:
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  • Alpha
  • Beta
  • Delta
  • Theta

Question 33

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You are watching the EEG of a person whose output contains 85% delta wave activity. Your best guess is that this person is:
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  • In stage 4 of slow-wave sleep
  • Dreaming
  • Making the transition from wakefulness to sleep
  • In REM sleep

Question 34

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Typically, humans show which pattern of blood flow and cognitive activity during REM sleep:
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  • Cortical blood flow is reduced during REM sleep as blood is shunted to the genitals
  • Cerebral blood flow is low in the primary visual cortex
  • Cerebral blood flow is high in the visual association cortex and low in the prefrontal cortex
  • Cerebral blood flow is high in the prefrontal cortex

Question 35

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It may be inappropriate to treat insomnia with benzodiazepines because:
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  • Medication withdrawal symptoms can result in increased insomnia
  • Sleeping medication may lead to daytime hangovers
  • People with insomnia may be underestimating the amount of time they actually sleep
  • All of the above are correct

Question 36

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Nightmares that are particularly terrifying occur during:
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  • Stage 1 sleep
  • Stage 2 sleep
  • Stage 4 sleep
  • REM sleep

Question 37

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The first day in a new job that is cognitively demanding and which involves the development of new skills, would be expected to:
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  • Produce insomnia
  • Reduce the amplitude of delta activity in the frontal lobes
  • Increase the need for REM sleep
  • Increase the amount of time spent that night spent in slow-wave sleep

Question 38

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A build up of carbon dioxide in the blood is characteristic of the sleep disorder known as:
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  • Narcolepsy
  • Sleep apnoea (apnea)
  • Somnambulism
  • Pavor nocturnus

Question 39

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A person who exhibits sudden paralysis may be suffering from:
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  • Somnambulism
  • A sleep attack
  • Hynagogic hallucinations
  • An episode of cataplexy

Question 40

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Human narcolepsy:
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  • Can be treated by using sleep-inducing drugs
  • Is caused by an absence of orexin in most people with narcolepsy
  • Involves the intrusion of slow-wave sleep components into the awake state
  • Is caused by an absence of dopamine in most people with narcolepsy

Question 41

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The occurrence of SLEEP ATTACKS in narcolepsy can be alleviated by drugs that:
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  • Impair the release of orexin in the brain
  • Block hypocretin 2 receptors in the hypothalamus
  • Act as catecholamine agonists
  • Alleviated the symptoms of depression

Question 42

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Weight gain is a common outcome for a person suffering from:
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  • Somnambulism
  • Sleep-related eating disorder
  • REM sleep disorder
  • Narcolepsy

Question 43

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The primary function of slow-wave sleep is to:
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  • Rest the brain
  • Promote dreaming
  • Facilitate brain development
  • Rest the body

Question 44

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Research has suggested that ___________ sleep is important for ___________
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  • Slow-wave; non-declarative
  • REM; declarative
  • Stage 2; declarative
  • REM; non-declarative

Question 45

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Prolonged sleep deprivation in humans results in:
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  • Impaired concentration
  • Perceptual illusions
  • Partial recovery of lost stage 4 sleep
  • All of the above are correct

Question 46

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All of the following are positive symptoms of schizophrenia EXCEPT:
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  • Social withdrawal
  • Auditory hallucinations
  • Disorganised speech
  • Visual hallucinations

Question 47

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The negative symptoms of schizophrenia:
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  • Are best illustrated by delusions
  • Are likely to be caused by excessive brain dopamine activity
  • Represent the absence of behaviours that are usually present
  • Are best illustrated by poor abstract thinking

Question 48

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The positive symptoms of schizophrenia may be caused by:
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  • An imbalance of norepinephrine in the brain
  • A single recessive gene
  • Excessive activity in forebrain dopamine circuits in the brain
  • Excessive activity in midbrain dopamine circuits in the brain

Question 49

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The fact that the odds of a child born to two parents, both of whom have schizophrenia, is less than 50% suggests that:
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  • Schizophrenia is associated with infertility
  • Schizophrenia is not produced by a single gene
  • Schizophrenia is a metabolic disorder
  • Schizophrenia is produced by a single dominant gene

Question 50

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Imagine that you have been handed a list of drugs and that beside each drug name is a number that represents the potency of that drug for blocking midbrain dopamine receptors (where a low number means a greater potency at blocking). Which would you choose for the treatment of schizophrenia?:
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  • Potency value = 0.1
  • Potency value = 0.3
  • Potency value = 1.0
  • Potency value = 5.0

Question 51

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Administration of high doses of which of the following drugs would be expected to produce the positive symptoms of schizophrenia:
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  • L-DOPA
  • Methamphetamine
  • Cocaine
  • All of the above are correct

Question 52

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John has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and has shown improvement in positive symptoms while taking chlorpromazine (CPZ). John may be at risk of his positive symptoms returning if he:
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  • Stops taking CPZ and takes cocaine at a party
  • Takes double his CPZ does per day
  • Mixes alcohol with CPZ
  • Takes reserpine in addition to CPZ

Question 53

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The mesolimbic pathway projects from the ___________ to the __________:
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  • Substantia nigra; caudate
  • Globus pallidus; ventral tegmental area
  • Ventral tegmental area; frontal cortex
  • Ventral tegmental area; nucleus accumbens and amygdala

Question 54

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Clozapine is referred to as an “atypical” antipsychotic drug because it:
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  • Can reverse positive symptoms of schizophrenia without producing tardive dyskinesia
  • Is more potent at blocking D2 than D4 receptors
  • Effectively treats schizophrenia but also produces motor side effects
  • Does not have any effect on dopamine

Question 55

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The negative symptoms of schizophrenia may be related to:
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  • Excessive birth weight
  • Mild brain damage
  • Overactivity of dopaminergic neurons
  • Having an older mother

Question 56

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Which of the following suggests that schizophrenia may be associated with atypical neuroanatomy:
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  • The size of the lateral ventricles increases in people with schizophrenia
  • The size of the lateral ventricles decreases in people with schizophrenia
  • Older people, who have already lost substantial numbers of neurons, are more likely to develop schizophrenia than younger people
  • The neurological symptoms observed in schizophrenia are unique to schizophrenia

Question 57

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The major affective disorders are also known as:
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  • Anxiety disorders
  • Schizoaffective disorders
  • Manic-depressive disorders
  • Mood disorders

Question 58

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_______________ is/are NOT an effective treatment for unipolar depression:
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  • Drugs that block the reuptake of serotonin or norepinephrine
  • Sleep deprivation
  • Lithium salts
  • Electroconvulsive therapy

Question 59

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The ability of fluoxetine (Prozac) to function as an effective treatment for _____________ is related to its capacity to ____________:
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  • Delusions and hallucinations; block serotonin reuptake
  • Depression; block serotonin reuptake
  • Anxiety disorders; inhibit MAO
  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder; release glycine

Question 60

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A person with ____________ allele(s) of the gene for the _____________ transporter is at risk for depression:
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  • A long and a short; dopamine
  • Two long; serotonin
  • Two short; serotonin
  • Two long; GABA
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