In the Focus on Neuroscience Box "Comparing Psychotherapy and Antidepressant

question 289

True/False

In the Focus on Neuroscience box "Comparing Psychotherapy and Antidepressant Medication," positron emission tomography (PET)scans compared brain activity in two groups of depressed individuals. One group had 12 weeks of treatment with interpersonal therapy, and the other group had 12 weeks of treatment with the antidepressant medication Paxil. PET scans taken after 12 weeks of treatment showed that brain activity changed in both groups.

---

Definitions:

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt

The wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, known for her humanitarian efforts and activism for civil rights during and after her tenure as First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945.

New Deal

A set of measures comprising programs, public infrastructure projects, monetary reforms, and regulations put into action by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s in the United States, aimed at facilitating the country's recovery from the Great Depression.

Agricultural Adjustment Administration

A New Deal agency created in 1933 to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses. It paid farmers to cut production of staple crops.

Central Purpose

The primary or most important goal, aim, or objective of an organization, movement, or strategy.