You Are Working on a New Drug to Help People

question 558

Multiple Choice

You are working on a new drug to help people with an eating problem. Your drug targets CCK. Most likely you are trying to

• A)get people to stop eating
• B)get people to gain an appetite
• C)balance neuropeptides
• D)increase the supply of leptin
• E)increase the supply of ghrelin

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Definitions:

Personality Disorders

Mental disorders characterized by enduring maladaptive patterns of behavior, cognition, and inner experience, exhibited across many contexts.

Diagnostic Criteria

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Relating to or involving dimensions, often in reference to measurements or the aspect of size, length, width, and depth.

Categorical

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