Which drug has provided the most help to schizophrenia patients experiencing auditory hallucinations and paranoia?

Related Mcqs:

1. The experience of auditory hallucinations by people with schizophrenia is most closely linked with the activation of areas in their:

   A. frontal lobes
   B. motor cortex
   C. hypothalamus
   D. temporal lobes

2. Hallucinations are different from illusions in that hallucinations are:

   A. Only found in hearing
   B. Non-shared perceptual distortions
   C. Shared by most people
   D. Only found in vision

3. Because there is considerable overlap among the types of schizophrenia, and because patterns of behavior shift over time, many patients are simply classified as suffering from______schizophrenia.

   A. borderline
   B. atypical
   C. mixed
   D. undifferentiated

4. What is an example of a positive symptom in patients with schizophrenia?

   A. Impaired social skills
   B. Affective flattening (lack of expression or emotion)
   C. Alogia (loss of speech)
   D. Hallucinations

5. An experimenter conducts an experiments on the effects of a drug to control hallucinations. He declares the results to be “statistically significant,’ which usually means that:

   A. even though appropriate statistics were used, no differences could be detected between experimental and control groups
   B. the results have important implications for theory or practice
   C. differences between experimental and control group of this size occur by chance only 5 times out of 100 (or less)
   D. differences between experimental and control groups were so large they could never occur by chance alone

6. All but this common drug trade name are used to treat symptoms of schizophrenia

   A. Haldol
   B. Clozaril
   C. Thorazine
   D. Losec

7. The prescription drug Thorazine used to treat persons with schizophrenia may cause side effects, one of them called tardive dyskinesia. What might a person suffering from this side effect display?

   A. involuntary movements of tongue and face
   B. no movement at all
   C. slow movements
   D. clapping of the hands repeatedly

8. All but this common drug trade name are used to treat symptoms of schizophrenia:

   A. Haldol
   B. Clozaril
   C. Thorazine
   D. Losec

9. Which form of therapy would most likely help depressed patients by teaching them how to resolve disagreements with their friends?

   A. humanistic therapy
   B. interpersonal psychotherapy
   C. psychoanalysis
   D. cognitive therapy

10. Retreat from reality by hallucinations and delusions and by social withdrawal typically characterizes:

    A. somatoform disorders
    B. anxiety disorders
    C. psychotic disorders
    D. personality disorders