Chapter 15

Some people offer to train you to use the right hemisphere of your brain more strongly, allegedly to increase creativity. If they were successful, can you see any disadvantage?

What are the effects of SSRIs?

What are the effects of MAOIs?

In what way does the time course of antidepressants pose a theoretical problem for understanding their mechanism?

What are two common treatments for bipolar disorder?

The fact that adopted children who develop schizophrenia usually have biological relatives with schizophrenia implies a probable genetic basis. What other interpretation is possible?

If schizophrenia is due to abnormal brain development, why do behavioral symptoms not become apparent until later in life?

What drugs induce mainly the positive symptoms of schizophrenia? What drug can induce both positive and negative symptoms?