Exposure and Response Prevention Is Designed to

question 149

Multiple Choice

Exposure and response prevention is designed to

• A) keep patients from having the impulse to perform certain rituals.
• B) have patients carry out their compulsive ritual repeatedly until desire to do so has passed.
• C) have patients increase the time between their impulse to carry out a ritual and their actually engaging in the ritual.
• D) keep patients from carrying out compulsive rituals until the desire to do so has passed.

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Definitions:

Node of Ranvier

Gaps in the myelin sheath along the axon of neurons where action potentials are generated.

Neurotransmitters

Chemical substances that transmit signals across a synapse from one neuron to another neuron or cell in the body.

Synaptic Vesicle

A small, spherical structure found within nerve cell endings, responsible for storing neurotransmitters that are released during synaptic transmission.

Axon

The long, slender projection of a neuron that conducts electrical impulses away from the neuron's cell body.