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mimicry
Simple, imitative motion activity of childhood
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concrete thinking
Thinking characterized by actual things, events, and immediate experience rather than by abstractions; seen in young children, in those who have lost or never developed the ability to generalize (as in certain cognitive mental disorders), and in schizophrenic persons. Compare with abstract thinking
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extroversion
State of one's energies being directed outside oneself.
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prosopagnosia
Inability to recognize familiar faces that is not due to impaired visual acuity or level of consciousness
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Bradykinesia
Slowness of motor activity, with a decrease in normal spontaneous movement
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memory
Process whereby what is experienced or learned is established as a record in the CNS (registration), where it persists with a variable degree of permanence (retention) and can be recollected or retrieved from storage at will (recall). For types of memory, see immediate memory, long-term memory, and short-term memory
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Significantly, the ___ _______ has recently been associated with ASDs, suggesting that altered GABA interneuron migration into the cortex and deficits in inhibitory signaling may contribute to the phenotype, including seizures and abnormal cognitive processing
c-Met receptor
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galactorrhea
Abnormal discharge of milk from the breast; may result from the endocrine influence (e.g., prolactin) of dopamine receptor antagonists, such as phenothiazines
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Although ________ is found in several brain regions, it has been most thoroughly investigated in terms of its association with other neurotransmitter systems, particularly the mesolimbic dopamine system, and has gained interest in research on the pathophysiology of schizophrenia
neurotensin (NT)
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______ ______ ______ ______ expressing neurons occur in several areas that initiate REM sleep, including the pons, dorsal raphe nucleus, laterodorsal tegmentum, and pedunculopontine tegmentum.
neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS)
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mood swings
Oscillation of a person's emotional feeling tone between periods of elation and periods of depression.
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A significant percentage of patients with major depressive disorder and dysthymic disorder may have a ____ ______ deficiency.
growth hormone
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Evidence that cytokine-induced behavioral toxicity is related to significant depression comes in part from studies showing that in humans and laboratory animals, antidepressants can abolish or attenuate the development of _____ _______ in response to cytokine administration
sickness behavior
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Individuals with autism show reduced levels of reelin mRNA and protein in brain and blood serum, suggesting that mutations leading to reduced expression of _____ rather than its absence may be significant in ASD.
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