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vinney12

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on: Jun 22, 2018
Drugs that most successfully treat obsessive-compulsive disorder raise the level of which neurotransmitter in the brain?
 
  a. acetylcholine
 b. dopamine
 c. serotonin
 d. norepinephrine

Question 2

V.J. suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. According to the biological perspective, he is likely to show ____.
 
  a. preparedness in the objects he uses for compulsive behavior
 b. abnormally low levels of metabolism in the locus ceruleus
 c. an excess of the neurotransmitter serotonin
 d. increased metabolic activity in the frontal lobe of the left hemisphere


Jsherida

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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

d


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