Conceptualizing Psychiatry

Question 1

Which of these is NOT a domain of psychiatric symptoms?

Affect (hopeless)
Behavior (impulsivity)
Cognition (distractability)
Learning (understanding)
Perception (delusions)
Social Interaction (relationships)

Answer 1

Learning is not one of the five domains

Question 2

abnormally elevated/irritable mood, decreased need for sleep, increased activity/agitation, impaired judgement

Answer 2

Mania

Question 3

Weeks to months in duration

Answer 3

Episodic

Question 4

Episodes of depression without mania

Answer 4

Major Depressive Disorder

Question 5

Evidence needed for Disease Perspective

Answer 5

Clinical Description
Laboratory studies
Delimitation from other disorders
Follow-up study
Family study

Question 6

fixed false knowledge

Answer 6

delusion

Question 7

Life story perspective includes

Answer 7

role of individual factors like background, life experience

Question 8

Person responsible for defining clinical syndromes on the basis of patterns of symptom clusters, patterns of symptoms over time

Answer 8

Kraepelin

Question 9

Low mood, sleep disturbance, loss of normal interests, guilt, worthlessness, fatigue, change in appetite –> primarily affective symptoms

Answer 9

Depression

Question 10

Developed concept that trauma can be associated with later psychopathology

Answer 10

Freud

Question 11

Developed the disease perspective –> can guess at prognosis, treatment

Answer 11

Thomas Sydenham

Question 12

Two types of mood disorders

Answer 12

Depression

Mania

Question 13

Cardinal symptoms:
Psychotic (delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thoughts + speech)

And: disorganized behavior, negative (lack of) symptoms

Answer 13

Schizophrenia

Question 14

repetitive behaviors that a person feels compelled to do

Answer 14

Compulsions

Question 15

Episodes of mania and of depression

Answer 15

Biopolar disorder

Question 16

Behavioral perspective includes

Answer 16

motivated by physiologic drives, conditioned by fear/reward

Question 17

persistent thoughts, worries, mental images that are distressing, cannot be suppressed

Answer 17

Obsessions

Question 18

First disease associated with neuropath finding

Answer 18

Alzheimers disease

Question 19

Interference with normal life activities by worries and behaviors

Answer 19

Obsessive-Compulsive disorder

Question 20

Progressive decline in multiple domains of cognitive function over time

Answer 20

Alzheimers disease

Question 21

Dimensional perspective includes

Answer 21

intelligence, temperament

Question 22

Repeated attacks with a surge of intense fear with symptoms that result in avoidance

Answer 22

Panic disorder