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prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient's nervous system
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Biomedical Therapy
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the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavioral
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Psychopharmacology
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drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder
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Antipsychotic Drugs
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drugs used to control anxiety and agitation
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Antianxiety Drugs
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drugs used to treat depression; also increasingly prescribed for anxiety; different types work by altering the availability of various neurotransmitters
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Antidepressant Drugs
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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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Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
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the application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to simulate or suppress brain activity
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Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS)
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surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior
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Psychosurgery
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a now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients; the procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain
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Lobotomy
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