Compare Disorders

Question 1

Tourette’s vs. persistent motor or vocal tic disorder vs. provisional tic disorder

Answer 1

• Tourettes: both motor & vocal tics 1+ years
• Persistent motor or vocal tic: vocal OR tic 1+ years
• Provisional tic disorder: motor/vocal/both LESS than 1 year

Question 2

Developmental coordination disorder vs. stereotypic movement disorder

Answer 2

DCD: poor motor skills, unbalanced
SMD: pointless, repeated movements -head banging, swaying (no explanation)

Question 3

Language disorder vs.
speech sound disorder vs.
Childhood onset fluency disorder vs.
Social (pragmatic) communication disorder

Answer 3

LD: small vocab, reduced ability forming sentences, beginning in childhood
SSD: problems producing sounds of speech
CFD: stuttering
SCD: difficulty with using language for social reasons, adapting communication to fit context, following rules of conversation, understanding metaphors

Question 4

Specific learning disorder
-reading
vs.
-math

Answer 4

problems with reading, writing, math

• reading (dyslexia): slow, hard to grasp meaning, errors in grammar
• math (dyscalculia): math fact, calculation, reasoning difficulty

Question 5

Intellectual disability vs.
Borderline intellectual disability
Autism
Global developmental delay
Unspecified ID

Answer 5

ID: low intelligence, need help coping with life
BID: IQ 71-84 & don’t having coping problems like ID
Autism: impaired social interactions and communication
GDD: under age 5, child behind developmentally, but cant assess degree
U.ID: child 5+ but cant assess degree maybe due to medical or physical impairment

Question 6

Schizophrenia vs.
Schizophreniform
Schizoaffective
Brief psychotic disorder
delusional disorder

Answer 6

• Schizophrenia: 2/5 symptoms: delusions or hallucinations & disorganized speech, abnormal behavior or negative symptoms for 6+ months
• Schizophreniform: schizophrenia for 1-6 months then recovers fully
• Schizoaffective: basic schizophrenia w/ mania & depression; 1+ months
• Brief psychotic disorder: up to 1 month of psychosis then recovers
• Delusional disorder: 1+ months, only delusional symptoms

Question 7

Major depressive episode vs.
Manic episode
Hypomanic episode

Answer 7

MD: 2+ weeks feeling depressed w/ problems eating, sleeping, low energy
Manic: 1+ week elated feeling, may be hospitalized
Hypomanic: 4+ days, like manic but briefer & less severe; no hospitalization

Question 8

Major depressive disorder vs.

Persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia)

Answer 8

MDD: no manic or hypomanic episodes, with 1+ major depressive episodes
PDD: no high; longer than typical major depression disorder, but not as severe

Question 9

Biopolar I vs. Bipolar II vs. cyclothymic disorder

Answer 9

BI: at least one manic episode, 1+ major depressive episodes

BII: at least one hypomanic episode, plus at least one major depressive episode (less severe then BI)

CD: repeated mood swings, but not severe enough to be major depressive or manic episodes

Question 10

with rapid cycling vs
cyclothymic disorder
seasonal disorder

Answer 10

RC: within 1 year, 4+ episodes of either major depressive, manic or hypomanic episodes

CD: repeated mood swings, but not severe enough to be major depressive or manic episodes

Seasonal: ill during certain times of the year (fall or winter)

Question 11

Generalized anxiety disorder VS.
Separation anxiety disorder
Social anxiety disorder
Specific phobia
Agoraphobia
Panic disorder
Avoidant personality disorder

Answer 11

• GAD: anxious most of the time; worry about a lot of things
• Separation AD: anxious when separated from parent/home
• Social AD: feel too anxious to speak, write, or eat in public
• Specific Phobia: fear specific object or situation
• Agoraphobia: fear of situations or places where they might have trouble obtaining help
• Panic disorder: repeated panic attacks, worry about more and intense fear and dread
• APD: ppl so easily wounded by criticism they avoid people

Question 12

Trichotillomania vs. Excoriation

Answer 12

hair pulling vs. skin picking disorder

Question 13

obsessions vs compulsions

Answer 13

repetitive thoughts/beliefs vs. actions

Question 14

Reactive attachment disorder vs

Disinhibited social engagement disorder

Answer 14

RAD: child repeatedly doesn’t seek comfort with caregiver
DSED: child fails to show normal reticence (shyness/reserve) with strangers

Question 15

PTSD vs.
Acute Stress disorder
Adjustment disorder

Answer 15

• PTSD: repeatedly reliving severely traumatic event
• Acute Stress disorder: like PTSD but lasts a month or less
• Adjustment disorder: following a stressor, symptoms occur but disappear when the stressor has subsided

Question 16

Dissociative amnesia vs.
Dissociative Identity disorder
Depersonalization/derealization disorder
Borderline personality disorder

Answer 16

• DA: patient can’t remember personal info due to stressor
• DID: multipule personalities
• DDD: episodes of detachment, like they are observing their own behavior from outside: no actual memory loss
• BPD: when severely stressed, episodes of dissociation or depersonalization occur

Question 17

Somatic symptom disorder vs.
Malingering
Conversion disorder
Illness anxiety disorder
Factitious disorder

Answer 17

• SSD: patients symptoms cannot be explained medically and can forget aspects of personal history
• M: patients fake symptoms of memory loss to obtain something (money, avoid punishment, drugs)
• CD: patients complain of isolated sensory or motor symptoms that have no physical cause (blindness, mutism, stuttering later in life)
• IAD: (hypocondriasis) healthy ppl have unfounded fear of a serious disease
• FD: on self or others; fake being sick