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Colin's schizophrenia is responding well to his medication, but he continues to be bothered by auditory hallucinations, in which voices continually criticize his actions. Colin's physician might try which of the following technologies in order to provide him with relief from these troubling symptoms?
 
  a. repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation
  b. lesions of the auditory cortex
 c. electrical stimulation of the auditory cortex
 d. gene therapy

Question 2

Repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) appears to be a promising treatment for which of the following psychological disorders?
 
  a. schizophrenia and depression
 b. attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism
 c. autism and schizophrenia
 d. depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder



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Answer to Question 1

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