Chapter 17- Psychiatry

Question 0

What is psychiatry concerned with?

Answer 0

Physical symptoms and signs

Question 1

Where are all the structures in this system located?

Answer 1

In the brain

Question 2

What other system does psychiatry share duties with?

Answer 2

The limbic system

Question 3

What is emotion?

Answer 3

An intense state of feelings

Question 4

What is affect?

Answer 4

The outward display of emotion on the face

Question 5

What is mood?

Answer 5

Prevailing, predominant emotion

Question 6

What are the 5 neurotransmitters?

Answer 6

1. Norepinephrine
2. Epinephrine
3. Dopamine
4. Serotonin
5. GABA

Question 7

What is obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)?

Answer 7

Constant, persistent, uncontrollable thoughts that occupy the mind, cause anxiety, and compel the patient to perform excessive, repetitive or meaningless activities.

Question 8

What are phobias?

Answer 8

Intense, unreasonable fear of a specific thing or situation.

Question 9

What is post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and what are some symptoms?

Answer 9

Continuing, disabling reaction to an excessively traumatic situation or event, such as war, terrorist, attack, torture, rape, ect.

Symptoms: chronic anxiety, insomnia, irritability, or occasional violent outbursts.

Question 10

What is anorexia nervosa and what are some symptoms?

Answer 10

Extreme, chronic fear of being fat and an obsession to become thinner.

Symptoms: abnormal eating habits, distorted body image, fear, guilt, and depression.

Question 11

What is bulimia and what are some symptoms?

Answer 11

Patients gorge themselves on excessive amounts of food and then, for fear of gaining weight, they rid themselves of food by using laxative drugs or self-induced vomiting.

Symptoms: Eroded tooth enamel, inflammation and ulcers in esophagus, fear, and guilt.

Question 12

What is addiction?

Answer 12

A state of complete psychical and psychological dependence on a substance.

Question 13

What is bipolar disorder and what are some symptoms?

Answer 13

Chronic mood swings between the two opposite emotional poles of mania and depression.

Symptoms: hyperactive, limitless energy, extreme happiness, need little sleep, poor judgement and recklessness.

Question 14

What is major depression?

Answer 14

Chronic,, severe symptoms of depression with apathy, hopelessness, helplessness, worthlessness, crying, insomnia, lack of pleasure in activities, increased or decreased appetite.

Question 15

What is delusional disorder and what are some symptoms?

Answer 15

Continued false beliefs concerning events of everyday life. These beliefs are fixed and unchanging despite the efforts of other to persuade or evidence showing otherwise.

Symptoms: paranoia or delusions of persecution believes that other people are trying to hurt them.

Question 16

What is schizophrenia and what are some symptoms?

Answer 16

Schizophrenia is the most common type of psychosis. There is chronic loss of touch with reality in most or all aspects of life with bizarre behavior and breakdown of thought processes.

Symptoms: Hallucinations, false impressions of vision, smell, sound, taste, or touch. Delusions of persecution and delusions that other are controlling their thoughts of that they can use this thoughts to control events.

Question 17

What is autism and what are some symptoms?

Answer 17

Inability to communicate, socialize, or form significant relationships with others, and a lack of interest in doing so.

Symptoms: avoid physical contact and eye contact, fascinated by objects, and ritualistic, repetitive behaviors.

Question 18

What is attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)/

Answer 18

Distractibility, short attention span, inability to follow directions, restlessness, hyperactivity, emotional lability, and impulsiveness.

Question 19

What is tourette’s syndrome?

Answer 19

Frequent, spontaneous, involuntary muscle tics, vocal tics, or spontaneous comments that socially inappropriate vulgar, obscene, or racist.

Question 20

What is amnesia?

Answer 20

Partial or total loss of long-term memory due to trauma or disease of the hippocampus.

Question 21

What is delirium?

Answer 21

Actue confusion, disorientation, and agitation due to toxic levels of body chemicals, drugs, or alcohol in the blood that affect the brain.

Question 22

What is kleptomania?

Answer 22

Overwhelming impulse to steal things that have little of no value.

Question 23

What is pyromania?

Answer 23

Deliberately setting fires for the please of watching the fire and the people sent to fight the fire.

Question 24

What is munchausen syndrome?

Answer 24

Exhibiting factitious medical or psychiatric symptoms. Patients are aware that they are lying, but are unaware that their motivation is the desire for assistance, attention, compassion, or pity.

Question 25

What is munchausen by proxy?

Answer 25

A caregiver creates illness in another person in order to enjoy the attention that the sick person gets while simultaneously enjoying attention for being the sacrificing, loving caregiver.

Question 26

What is hypochondriasis?

Answer 26

Preoccupation with, and misinterpretation of, minor body sensations with the fear that they indication disease.