Adderall: the brand name of a medication used to treat attention deficit disorder (ADD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Ambien: the brand name of the drug, zolpidem, which is used to treat insomnia. It is classified as a sedative-hypnotic, and it works by slowing activity in the brain to allow for sleep.
Ativan: the brand name for the drug, lorazepam, which is a kind of benzodiazepines which act on the brain and nerves to help treat anxiety and seizure disorders.
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD): a chronic condition of disordered learning and disruptive behavior that includes hyperactivity, impulsiveness, and difficulty in paying attention. ADD is not caused by any serious underlying physical or mental disorder.
Bipolar Depressive: part of a larger condition that is called bipolar disorder (see above); specifically, periods of feeling down and hopeless.
Bipolar Disorder: any of several mood disorders characterized by alternating episodes of depression and mania or by episodes of depression alternating with mild non-psychotic excitement. Other names include: manic depressive.
Buspar: the brand name for a drug designed specifically to treat anxiety.
Depakote: the brand name for sodium valproic, which is an anticonvulsant used to treat seizures or episodes of mania, usually in patients with bipolar disorder.
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT): the treatment of mental disorder in patients with depression or bipolar disorder by applying brief electric current to the brain of a usually anesthetized patient that induces unconsciousness and convulsive seizures in the brain. Also called electric shock, electric shock therapy, or electroshock therapy.
EMDR: acronym for “eye movement desensitization and reprocessing,” a type of therapy conceived in the late 1980s that is used to treat trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). it is an information processing therapy that uses an eight phase approach designed to maximize treatment effects of many different psychotherapies.
Hypnosis: an artificially induced trance state resembling sleep, characterized by heightened susceptibility to suggestions.
Klonopin: the brand name of the benzodiazepine medication, clonazepam, used to control panic attacks and certain types of seizures by decreasing abnormal electrical activity in the brain.
Palpitations: A noticeably rapid or irregular heartbeat, usually due to agitation, medications, or illness.
Pathological: caused by or involving disease.
