Deficits in social interaction/communication are required for diagnosis.

During prehistoric times, holes were drilled into the skull to free the “evil spirits” trapped inside the head of a "possessed" person.

This hormone activates the sympathetic nervous system and directs the body's rapid involuntary response to dangerous or stressful situations

Often disrupted by depression, these are variations in physiology and behavior that recur every 24-hours, such as the sleep-wake cycle and daily patterns of hormone release. 

This classification of antidepressants targets serotonin and increases the availability of serotonin by inhibiting its reabsorption from the synaptic cleft

Spinning, hand flapping, echolalia, and flipping objects are all examples of what kind of behaviors characteristic of autism spectrum disorder.

During the Middle Ages, this treatment consisted of beatings, starvings, forced eating of substances (foul-tasting, blood, sheep dung) agitating the spirit and causing it to flee the body.

Those diagnosed with this disorder regularly anticipate disaster, often worrying excessively about health, money, family, or work chronic state of severe worry and tension.

Considered a personality trait disposition, this is the tendency to react with higher levels of negative affect. Twin studies suggest that this explains a part of the genetic vulnerability to depression.

Serious cardiovascular complications (cardiac slowing and arrhythmias) are a few of this older class of medications used to treat primarily severe depression.

Symptoms of autism generally appear by this age.

The Romans used these to shock and subdue unruly patients.

Identifying and challenging negative self-talk and replacing negative self-talk with more realistic self-statements is characteristic of this type of therapy.
Challenges “I should” self-talk

In this theory, major depressive episodes are caused by the tendency to repetitively dwell on sad thoughts.

Wellbutrin, Trazodone, and Remeron are considered to fall under this class of antidepressants.

This gender is overly represented in the lower ranges of mental ability and higher rates of structural brain abnormalities, epilepsy, and neurological conditions.
Epilepsy
Neurological conditions

He believed that hysterical states (anesthesia, paralyses, blindness, deafness) were caused by an imbalance of a universal magnetic fluid in the body and treated people with magnetic objects. Thought to be too sexual when it began to be used in private sessions, he was discredited and disgraced.

This disorder is a treatable neurobiological disorder characterized by recurrent, unwanted intrusive thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive behaviors (compulsions/rituals) such as counting, checking, praying, and cleaning.

This is a brief, self-report inventory designed to measure the severity of depression symptomatology.

This oder class of antidepressants increases the risk of hypertensive crisis (severe increase in blood pressure that could lead to stroke, heart attack, pulmonary edema, tear in the aorta, eclampsia), weight gain, and sexual side effects

A child with autism spend more time looking at which part of the human face?

He was referred to as the “father of American psychiatry” and the first to believe that mental illness is a disease of the mind and not a "possession of demons.”

Too much of this hormone short-circuits the cells of the hippocampus, making it difficult to organize the memory of a trauma or stressful experience.

Considered only after an antidepressant medication regime and psychotherapy have been unsuccessful, this therapy is most often used to treat severe, treatment-resistant depression (TRD).

What two antidepressants received US FDA approval for children and adolescents