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ACS: Brain Functions & Mental Health Flashcards

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Fx: personality, problem solving

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Frontal lobe

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Fx: Somatosensory (temp, pressure, position)

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anterior edge- Parietal lobe

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Fx: vision (color/shape)

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Occipital lobe

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Fx: Auditory & smell

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Superior temporal lobe

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Fx: speech (motor)

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Broca’s area- frontal lobe (left hemisphere)

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Fx: Speech (sensory, planning & understanding)

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Wernicke’s area- Jxn of parietal, temporal & occipital

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Fx: biological drives (thirst, hunger)

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Hypothalamus

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Fx: emotions

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Near corpus colloquy & temporal lobe

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Fx: visual & spatial

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Right parietal

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Fx: Understand language

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Left parietal

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Which hemisphere = Speech, organized, aware of time, visual

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Left

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Which hemisphere = movement & sensation on right body and right half visual field

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Left

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Which hemisphere = Needs a reason to follow rules, enjoys sensory stimulation

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Left

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Which hemisphere = Music & art appreciation, drawing ability, words to remember

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Right

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Which hemisphere = mvmnt & sensation on left side of body and left half visual field

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Right

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Which hemisphere = Follows rules, likes to observe rather than participate

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Right

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Time period for:

Isolation, lobotomies, ECT

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Pre 1960’s

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Time period for:

drugs, therapy, de-institutionalizations

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Post 1960’s

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What institution, in 1955, was very successful with mental illness?

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Spear’s Chiropractic Hospital

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Theory of Reasoned Action

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Perception + family/friends + beliefs = action

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Communication is based on:

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Speech, eye contact, body language, body contact, & language

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Combination of open-ended and direct questioning

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Funneling

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Non-reversible deterioration of cognition and behavior

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Dementia

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Often reversible acute confusion that may fluctuate

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Delirium

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Mania & melancholy mood swings
Appears around 20 y/o
Tax: lithium, drug stabilizers, mood charting

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Bipolar disorder

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Causes hypo manic & mild depressive episodes

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Cyclothymic disorder

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Aka depression, hopelessness, suicidal

High incidence: Alzheimer’s, DM, Parkinson’s, heart, stroke CA

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Unipolar disease

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Major depressive is ___ weeks of ___ symptoms

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2 weeks of 4 symptoms (loss of appetite, insomnia, agitation, worthlessness, suicidal, poor concentration)

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2 years of at least 3 symptoms (loss of appetite, insomnia, agitation, worthlessness, suicidal, poor concentration)

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Dysthymic disorder

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Tx for depression and dysthymia

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Personal therapy, drugs, ECT, nutrition

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Tx for Seasonal Affective Disorder

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Light, exercise, comfort foods

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32
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Episodic
Young adults are most commonly affected
Reality is altered
Delusion, hear voices, disorganized speech

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Schizophrenia

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Types of schizophrenia (x4)

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  1. Disorganized: unpredictable mood shifts
  2. Catatonic: Rigid posture, flat affect, masked fancies
  3. Paranoid: delusions of persecution
  4. Schizophreniform: adolescent onset, family induced, contradictory messages
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No regard for self or others (lacks empathy)
Strongly amoral conduct masked by ability to appear outwardly normal
Verbal therapy not effective

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Psychopath

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Believes they are superior, grandiose, lack remorse
Shallow emotions
Need stimulation
Pathological liar
Violent
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Sociopath/antisocial

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Multiple personalities
Childhood trauma
Can be short term event

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Dissociative disorder

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Physical complaint with no organic pathology, entirely unconscious

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Somatoform disorders

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Convinced of a body flaw (real or imagined) and preoccupied with it

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Dysmorphic disorder

39
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Food disorders

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Anorexia: fear of fat
Bulimia: binge & purge (Barrett’s)
Pica: no nutritional value

40
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Psychic conflict causing physical symptom

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Conversion disorder

41
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Preoccupation with personal health or contracting illness

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Hypochondriac

42
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Females under 30 (usually in adolescence)
Multiple systems
Confusing

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Somatization disorder

43
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Underlying emotional process

Pain often allows escape from responsibility

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Somatoform pain disorder

44
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Constant excessive fear
Hypervigilant
S/s: twitching, sweating, dry mouth, HA, stomach ache, urinary frequency

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General anxiety disorder (GAD)

45
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Occur with GAD, phobias, OCD, and/or PTSD

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Panic attack

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Types of phobias (x2)

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  1. Social: provoked by people or performance issues

2. Specific: provoked by object or situation

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Repetitive thoughts and repetitive actions

I.e. Cleaning, checking, repeating, hoarding, touching, etc.

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Obsessive compulsive disorder

48
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Fear and anxiety following an emotional event
Flashbacks, sleep disorders (common)
Fibromyalgia, MFS, RLS

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

49
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In reality most of the time, hard on themselves
Low self esteem
Defense mechanisms are working overtime
To: support and enlighten

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Likes abuse

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Inflicts abuse

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Enjoys watching (sexual disorders)

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Enjoys showing (sexual disorders)

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Exhibitionist

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Individual exaggerates personal complaints

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Münchausen syndrome

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Caregiver inflicts harm on individual they care for

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Munchausen by proxy

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Preoccupation with ones owns thoughts
Slow language development
No smiling (6 mo's)
No babble (12 mo's)
Repeated phrases (24 mo's)
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Impulsive pattern
Inattentive, often dyslexic
Poor focus & academics

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Coping methods

Transfer one drive to opposite expression

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Reaction formation

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Coping methods

Act out emotion on someone else

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Displacement

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Coping methods

No feelings

61
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Coping methods

Ignore feelings

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Repression

62
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Coping methods

Act younger

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Regression

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Coping methods

Give undesirable trait away, “blame game”

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Projections

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Coping methods

Excuse for behavior

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Rationalize

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Coping methods

Transfer emotions towards Doctor (parents, lovers, etc)

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Transference

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Coping methods

Replace socially unacceptable behavior with a more acceptable but similar one

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Sublimation

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Personality disorder
Self love (me, myself and I)
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Narcissism

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Personality disorder

Feels inadequate, isolates

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Personality disorder

Believes everyone is out to get them

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Personality disorder

Afraid of a particular thing

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Personality disorder

Peculiar dress, magical thinking and beliefs

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Schizotypal

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Personality disorder

Overly dramatic, victim often, seductive

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Histrionic

73
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Analyze underlying issues

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Psychotherapy

74
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LIfe style change therapy
Vacation
In-patient, half-way house, etc

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Milieu therapy

75
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Therapy for severe depression

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Electroconvulsive Shock Therapy (ECT)

76
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Many different stimulus leads to the same response

Slow exposure

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Generalization

77
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Psychotherapy

Focused on self-actual inning and personal growth

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Humanistic therapy

78
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Hierarchy of Needs

Physiological needs - self actualization

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Abraham MASLOW

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Dream analysis
Free association, hypnotherapy
Unconscious entities: ID, EGO, SUPEREGO

80
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ID:
EGO:
SUPEREGO:

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ID: kid, unconscious primitive
EGO: reality, control
SUPEREGO: unconscious, conscience, guilt

81
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Psychoanalysis

Student of Freud

82
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Desensitization
Aversion, reinforcements, shaping
3 types

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Behavior medicine
(Aversion, Avoidance, Conditioning)
83
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Associate behavior with negative consequences

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Aversion behavioral medicine

84
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Avoid person, place and things associated with behavior

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Avoidance behavioral medicine

85
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Subtypes: classical, modeling, and operant

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Conditioning behavioral medicine

86
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Classical Conditioning

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Pavlov's dogs
Unconditioned stimulus (food) and reflex (salivate)
Conditioned stimulus (bell) and reflex (salivate)
Stimulus and response are related
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Modeling Conditioning

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Environment
Influence
Video
Music

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Operant Conditioning

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Skinner "pay offs"
To change behavior
Stimulus and response are UNrelated
Negative- fastest
Positive- longest
89
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Psychology tests:
Standford Binet =
WISC = 
MMPI =
Rorschach =
MMSE =
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Standford Binet = IQ - adult
WISC = IQ - kid
MMPI = Personality
Rorschach = Projective
MMSE = memory and mental status
90
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Fx: Voluntary motor

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Frontal lobe & cerebellum

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