Your friend is schizophrenic, and you are glad that she lives in current times because her psychiatrist treats her schizophrenia with __________, whereas fifty years ago she might have been treated with __________.

A. a neuroleptic drug; ECT
B. an tranquilizing drug; ECT
C. ECT; trephining
D. an antidepressant drug; psychosurgery


Answer: A

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