Tina has been extremely hyperactive for the past week and getting by with only three hours of sleep each night. Her thoughts seem to be racing out of control, and she is convinced that the novel she started last week will become a best seller and win a Pulitzer Prize, even though she has never had any of her writing published in the past. Tina's symptoms suggest that she is currently experiencing

a. dysthymic disorder.
b. generalized anxiety disorder.
c. a manic episode.
d. dissociative fugue.

C

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A. less neural plasticity B. more synapses C. less gray matter D. more reification

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