Anxiety 1

Question 1

What group of psychiatric disorders has the highest prevalence?

Answer 1

Anxiety disorders = most prevalent

Question 2

What is the lifetime prevalence of Anxiety disorders?

What is the point prevalence of Anxiety disorders?

Answer 2

Lifetime prevalence = 25 %

Point prevalence = 14%

Question 3

All anxiety disorders have F>M, except for what disease?

Answer 3

OCD, M=F.

Question 4

Acute stress disorder presents with PTSD symptoms but differs in time frame how?

Answer 4

Symptoms occur within 4 weeks of trauma and lasts 2 days- 4 weeks.

(In PTSD, symptoms last for >1 month)

Question 5

Depersonalizaion and Derealization is under what part of the MSE?

Answer 5

Thought CONTENT.

Question 6

What neurotransmitter is most implicated in pathology of OCD?

Answer 6

Serotonin

Question 7

Which TCA is particularly helpful in OCD? How does it compare to SSRI?

Answer 7

Clomipramine.

Depending on the study it equal to or superior to SSRI.

Question 8

What is Dissociative Amnesia and how does it differ from Transient Global ischemia?

Answer 8

Dissociative Amnesia = 1 or more episodes of inability to remember PERSONAL information, usually of a traumatic nature.

TGA = Personal/Biographical information remains intact, but it is a brief period where you have reversible retrograde and anterograde memory loss. Thought to be due to TIA.

Question 9

What is the time frame difference between Acute Stress Disorder vs Post Traumatic Stress disorder?

Answer 9

Acute Stress Disorder = symptoms within 4 weeks and last no greater than 4 weeks.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder = symptoms greater than 1 month.

Question 10

What is the term for a culturally bound anxiety syndrome among Hispanics - syndrome of HA, insomnia, anorexia, fear, anger, despair and diarrhea

Answer 10

Antaque de nervios