Risperidone (Risperdal) ,Olanzapine (Zyprexa), Quetiapine (Seroquel) - are all examples of this

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The personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma

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A now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves that connect the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain.

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A surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior

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A treatment for severe depression involving exposure of specific brain structures to bursts of high-intensity magnetic fields instead of electricity

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A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient

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The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior

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A procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies

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A popular integrative therapy that combines changing self-defeating thinking with changing behavior

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A confrontational cognitive therapy, developed by Albert Ellis, that vigorously challenges people's illogical, self-de- feating attitudes and assumptions

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Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions

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Behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to the things they fear and avoid

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A type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol)

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Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors

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Clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences

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A variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person's awareness of under- lying motives and defenses

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In psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent)

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A branch of psychology that studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior, and uses that in- formation to treat people with psychological disorders

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An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy

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A disorder in which individuals feel compelled to save items and become very distressed if they try to discard them, resulting in an excessive accumulation of items

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Significant episodes of overeating, followed by distress, disgust, or guilt, but without the compensatory purging, fasting, or excessive exercise that marks bulimia nervosa

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Prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient's nervous system

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A personality disorder in which the person exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members. May be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist.

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Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning

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A false belief, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders

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A false sensory experience, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus

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A psychological disorder in which a person loses contact with reality, experiencing irrational ideas and distorted perceptions

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A group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inap- propriate emotions and actions

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Controversial, rare disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings

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A rare somatoform disorder in which a person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found.

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Psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a bodily form without apparent physical cause

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Compulsive fretting; overthinking about our problems and their causes

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A mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state

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A mood disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania.

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A mood disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or a medical condition, two or more weeks of significantly depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, and diminished interest or pleasure in most activities.

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Marked emotional disturbance after experiencing or witnessing a severely stressful event

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The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition; a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders.

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The study of influences on gene expression that occur without a DNA change

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A diffuse state of constant anxiety not associated with any specific object or event

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An anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations.

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an anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and/or actions

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Fear or avoidance of situations, such as crowds or wide open places, where one has felt loss of control and panic

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A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.

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An eating disorder in which an irrational fear of weight gain leads people to starve themselves

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