Why Do Scientists Consider HIV to Be an Emerging Virus

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Multiple Choice

Why do scientists consider HIV to be an emerging virus?

• A) HIV mutates so rapidly that the virus of today has very little similarity to the virus in the first AIDS patients from the early 1980s.
• B) HIV used to infect only chimps, but it has mutated in such a way that it now infects humans.
• C) HIV is now starting to cause diseases other than AIDS, such as rare types of cancers and pneumonias.
• D) HIV infected humans long before AIDS first become a problem in the early 1980s, but it has now mutated to a more deadly form.

Identify the key structures in the brain associated with depression and how they function.

Recognize the impact of symbolic losses on depression from a psychodynamic perspective.

Understand Beck's cognitive theory of depression, including the role of negative thoughts.

Comprehend the concept of learned helplessness in depression according to Seligman.

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