Chapter 14

Is a drug with high affinity and low efficacy an agonist or an antagonist?

Someone who is quitting an addictive substance for the first time is strongly counseled not to try it again. Why?

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?

In what way does the time course of antidepressants conflict with the idea that they improve mood by increasing neurotransmitter levels?

As opposed to an interpretation in terms of neurotransmitter levels, what is an alternative explanation for the benefits of antidepressant drugs?

What is an advantage of psychotherapy over antidepressant drugs?

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?

Why would it be unlikely that a single gene was responsible for schizophrenia?

According to the neurodevelopmental hypothesis, when do the brain abnormalities associated with schizophrenia originate?

The ability of traditional antipsychotic drugs to relieve schizophrenia correlates strongly with what effect on neurotransmitters?

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