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Neurodevelopmental disorders

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  1. ADHD
  2. Autism spectrum
  3. Tourette’s
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Schizophrenia Spectrum

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Dementia praecox- mind is split from reality

Delusions

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Positive symptoms

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Added to normal behavior

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Negative symptoms

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Absence of normal behavior

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Grandeur

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I am remarkable

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Reference

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Others are talking about me

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Persecution

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Others are plotting against me

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Hallucinations

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Perceptions not due to external stimuli but have compelling sense of reality

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Disorganized thought

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Doesn’t make sense. Word salad.

Neologisms

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Disturbance of affect

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Blunting: reduced
Flat: no
Inappropriate: discordant with content

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Types of Scz

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  1. Process - slow and insidious onset

2. Reactive - intense and sudden

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Progression of Scz

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Prodromal (withdrawal, impairment) –> Active

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Theories of Scz

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  1. Dopamine

2. Double-bind

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Mood disorders

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  1. Depression
  2. Bipolar- II has hypomania
  3. Persistent
  4. Cyclothymic
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Catecholamine theory of depression

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Norepinephrine/Serotonin levels for depression/mania

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Anxiety Disorders

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  1. Phobias
  2. SAD
  3. Panic
  4. GAD
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OCD

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  1. OCD
  2. BDD
  3. Trich
  4. Skin (excoriation)
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Somatoform disorders

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Presence of physical symptoms that suggest medical condition but are not explained by medical condition

  1. conversion - voluntary motor
  2. illness anxiety - hypochondriac
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Dissociative disorders

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  1. Amnesia- don’t remember past experiences
  2. Fugue- suddenly move away and then get amnesia
  3. Identity- multiple personalities
  4. Depersonalization- an outsider on mental processes
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Personality disorders

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  1. Schizoid- detachment from social situations, restricted range of emotional expression
  2. Narcissistic
  3. Borderline
  4. Antisocial
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Psychodynamic

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Id- pleasure principle; primary process and wish fulfillment
Ego- reality principle; secondary process. Postpone the pleasure principle until the thing can be reached
Superego- conscience, morality

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Libido

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Energy through which life instincts perform their work

  1. Eros- life
  2. Thanatos- death
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Defense Mechanisms

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Defy reality and operate unconsciously

  1. Repression
  2. Suppression- conscious form of forgetting
  3. Projection- attribute forbidden urges to others
  4. Reaction Formation- repression warded off by acting the opposite of what the instinct is
  5. Rationalization- develop explanation for socially unacceptable things
  6. Regression
  7. Sublimation- transform inappropriate things into appropriate ones
  8. Displacement- hostility discharged onto something else
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Jung archetypes

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  1. Persona- mask for social demands
  2. Anima/animus- gender
  3. Shadow- animal instincts
  4. Self- combo of collective unconscious and conscious
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Social Learning Theory

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Bandura- learning based on modeling observed behavior

Vicarious reinforcement

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