After a Major Earthquake, Television Coverage Showed Survivors Shuffling Confusedly

question 68

Multiple Choice

After a major earthquake, television coverage showed survivors shuffling confusedly through the ruined buildings. If such victims later could not remember the days immediately after the earthquake, the victims would be suffering from what type of amnesia?

• A) continuous
• B) selective
• C) posttraumatic
• D) localized

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Definitions:

Tardive Dyskinesia

A neurological syndrome caused by the long-term use of neuroleptic drugs, characterized by repetitive, involuntary, purposeless movements.

Brain Damage

The destruction or deterioration of brain cells, often resulting in impaired cognitive, physical, or emotional functions.

Schizophrenia

A long-term mental disorder involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions, and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.

Conventional Antipsychotic

A group of older antipsychotic drugs primarily used to treat symptoms of psychosis, such as those found in schizophrenia.