Concept Checks Flashcards by Mateusz Marchut

People who develop schizophrenia are more likely to be born during what time(s) of the year?

Winter and early spring

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Which term refers to a slender, slightly muscled physique?

Asthenic

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90% of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia are also addicted to what substance:

Nicotine

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What is the most frequent type of hallucinations?

Auditory

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What type of therapy involves a multidisciplinary, mobile team that provides treatment, rehabilitation, and support activities in a patient’s natural environments?

Assertive community treatment

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Select the negative symptom(s) of schizophrenia. There may be more than one.

Apathy
Blunt affect
Anhedonia

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What type of eye movements are frequently seen in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia?

Saccades

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Select the positive symptom(s) of schizophrenia. There may be more than one.

Paranoia
Hallucinations
Delusions

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Which term emphasizes early-onset change in cognition?

Dementia precox

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What are the subtypes of Schizophrenia?

Paranoid 
Disorganized 
Catatonic 
Undifferentiated 
Residual

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Symptoms of Paranoid type Schizophrenia

Preoccupation with one or more delusions or frequent auditory hallucinations. 
None of the following are prominent: 
1. Disorganized speech 
2. Disorganized or catatonic behavior
3. Flat or inappropriate affect

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Symptoms of Disorganized type Schizophrenia

Disorganized Speech
Disorganized behavior
Flat or inappropriate affect

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Symptoms of Catatonic type schizophrenia

The cline needs to have at least two of the following

Motoric immobility or stupor
Excessive motor activity
Extreme negativism or mutism
Peculiarities of voluntary movement (Posturing, stereotyped movements, prominent mannerisms or prominent grimacing)
Echolalia or echopraxia

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Symptoms of Undifferentiated type Schizophrenia

The presence of symptoms that meet criterion A of schizophrenia, but that do not meet criteria for the paranoid, disorganized or catatonic type.

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Symptoms of Residual type Schizophrenia

Absence of prominent delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior.

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What is the life event most associated with developing depression?

Losing parents before the age of 11

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Which diagnosis is characterized by episodes of major depression and hypomania?

Bipolar II disorder

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Merriment is much more likely in which type of diagnosis?

Bipolar

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What type of episode usually begins a bipolar episode?

Depressive

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What terms refers to the phenomenon of patients committing suicide as their depression improves due to poor impulse control?

Paradoxical suicide

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What is the minimum amount of time a patient should participate in their pharmacological treatment for depression?

6 months

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If a patient seems to have sociopathic tendencies, what is the most likely diagnosis?

Cyclothymic

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Depression is more common in older persons than in the general population?

True

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What percentage of patients with bipolar experience delusions?

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What is defined as a pervasive and sustained emotion or feeling tone that influences a persons behavior and color his or her perception of being in the world?

MOod

Which type of therapy is most appropriate for someone diagnosed with agoraphobia?

Behavioral

What referes to excessive fear of a specific object, circumstance or situation?

Phobia

Which type of phobia has a high familiar tendency?

Blood-injection- injury

Which term describes a response to a known external threat?

Fear

Caffeine and carbon dioxide are examples of what kind of substance ?

Panicogens

Which type of phobia is more likely to develop in adulthood?

Situational

People, who experience panic attacks are likely to develop which diagnosis?

Agoraphobia

How long does a panic attack typically last?

20-30 minutes

What is a conscious, standardized, recurrent behavior?

Compulsion

What is a recurrent or intrusive thought, feeling, idea, or sensation?

Obsession

Select the top three compulsions:

Checking Washing Counting

Resisting a compulsion reduces anxiety.

False

Completion of a compulsion reduces anxiety.

False

Select the top three obsessions:

Contamination Somatic Pathological doubt

90% of people with which diagnosis have also been diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder?

Tourette’s syndrome

What type of symptoms include flashbacks?

Intrusion

What is the least important risk factor for developing posttraumatic stress disorder?

Familial pattern

Which age groups are particularly susceptible to developing posttraumatic stress disorder? Select all that apply.

Young adults Young children Older adults

Soldiers diagnosed with Gulf War syndrome also experienced an increase in which diagnosis?

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

What is defined by the inability to identify and describe emotions?

Alexithymia

What refers to the unconscious defense mechanism involving the segregation of any group of mental or behavioral processes from the rest of the person’s psychic activity?

Dissociation

What refers to a period of feeling disconnected or detached from one’s body or thoughts?

Depersonalization

What is the most likely type of trauma exposure for men resulting in posttraumatic stress disorder?

Combat

What is the most likely type of trauma exposure for women resulting in posttraumatic stress disorder?

Rape

What type of symptoms include anhedonia?

Avoidance

What term refers to the inability to recall events related to a circumscribed period of time?

Localized amnesia

What terms refer to the failure to remember a category of information, such as all memories relating to one's family or to a particular person?

Systematized amnesia

What terms refers to the ability to remember some, but not all, of the events occurring during a circumscribed period of time?

Selective amnesia

What term refers to the failure to recall successive events as they occur?

Continuous amnesia

Which term refers to purposeful, sudden, and unexpected travel and in inability to recall one's identity after a traumatic event?

Dissociative fugue

Which disorder is characterized by the giving approximate answers together with a clouding of consciousness and is frequently accompanied by hallucinations and other dissociative, somatoform, and conversion symptoms?

Ganser syndrome

What term refers to the failure to recall one's entire life?

Generalized amnesia

Which disorder is commonly experienced by people with epilepsy or migraines?

Depersonalization disorder

Which disorder is manifest by a temporary, marked altercation in the states of consciousness or by a loss of the customary sense of personal identity without the replacement by an alternate sense of identity?

Dissociative trance disorder

What is the most common trauma associated with dissociative identity disorder?

Childhood trauma

Which disorder is described as identity disturbance due to prolonged and intense coercive persuasion?

Brainwashing

Which diagnosis consists of a cluster of abnormalities associated with obesity that contributes to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes?

Metabolic syndrome

Which is the most common eating disorder?

Binge eating disorder

Which disorder is characterized by purging behavior after consuming a small amount of food in persons of normal weight who have a distorted view of their weight or body image?

Purging disorder

Patients diagnosed with which eating disorder are at an elevated risk for suicide?

Anorexia Nervosa (binge/purge)

Which sensory system plays a role is satiety/

Olfactory

Patients diagnosed with which eating disorder are less likely to recover?

Anorexia nervosa (restricting)

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