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Depression, Psychosis and Personality Disorders Flashcards

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What are mood disorders also known as?

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  • Affective disorders
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How may mood disorders present to the dentist?

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  • Very rare
  • Oral effects (in somatiform disorders)
  • Dysesthesias
  • Facial pain
  • Patients general demeanour
  • Need to consider whether it is appropriate to treat someone in their depression phase as can they consent efficiently
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How on the spectrum is termed normal mood?

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  • Termed Cyclothymia
  • Range from Elation, normal to Dysthmia
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How can people with depressive disorder present with on the spectrum?

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  • Mild depression all the way to sever depression with psychosis (extreme)
  • If patient flutters between normal and depressive this is termed Recurrent depressive disorder
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How does Bipolar affective disorder present on the spectrum?

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  • Ranges all the way along the spectrum
  • Can present with Mania with psychosis - normal - sever depression with psychosis
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What are the names of the changes in mood on the spectrum?

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  • Normal mood swings
  • Cyclothymic temperament
  • Cyclothymic disorder
  • Bipolar type II disorder
  • Monopolar mania
  • Bipolar type 1 disorder
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How common are mood disorders?

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  • Female: Male 2-3:1
  • Unipolar has 6% prevalence
  • Bipolar has life prevalence of 1.2%
  • Post natal depression occurs 0.5/1000 in one month (if has it with one baby more likely to have with another)
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What are the common types of depressive mood disorders?

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  • Major depressive disorder
  • Persistent depressive disorder
  • Bipolar depression
  • Postpartum depression
  • Premenstrual dysphoric disorder
  • Seasonal affective disorder
  • Atypical depression
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What are the common symptoms of depression?

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  • Low mood
  • Reduces interest and motivation
  • Lethargy and tiredness
  • Sleep disturbance
  • Appetite disturbance
  • Poor concentration
  • Loss of confidence and self esteem
  • Recurrent thoughts of death and suicide (ask whether they have to detect the ones who are acc considering it)
  • Unreasonable self-reproach and guilt
  • Any form of anxiety
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How is bipolar classified?

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  • Bipolar type 1 (mania)
  • Bipolar type 2 (Cyclothymia into hypomania)
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What are the mania and hypomania symptoms?

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  • Increased productivity and feeling of wellbeing
  • Reduced need for sleep
  • Gradual reduction in social functioning and occupational functioning
  • Increase in reckless behaviour
  • Followed by depressive episode
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What are the symptoms of a Euphoric patient?

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  • Upbeat
  • More talkative
  • Inflated self -esteem
  • Felt everything possible
  • Rapid speech
  • Restlessness
  • Reckless behaviour
  • Excessive energy
  • Decreased sleep
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What are the symptoms of a Dysphoric patient?

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  • Irritable
  • Agitated
  • Aggressive energy
  • Restlessness
  • Rage
  • Rapid speech
  • Reckless behaviour
  • Excessive energy
  • Decreased sleep
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What are the treatments of mood disorders?

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  • Combo is best option
    Psychological
  • Cognitive therapy
  • Interpersonal psychotherapies

Drug treatment
- Usually 2 years treatment or relapse occurs
- Antidepressant
- Mood stabilising

Physical
- Exercise
- Phototherapy for seasonal affect disorder
- ECT (mostly post natal depression)

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What are some acute phase antidepressants drugs?

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  • Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI)
  • Venlafaxine /Mirtazapine
  • Tricyclic antidepressants (TCA) (improve anxiety)
  • Monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI)
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What are some negatives of SSRI?

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  • Give anxiety which is not great for depressive episode
  • Often feel like they have to rely on drug and can’t stop
  • Combine with tricyclic to reduce anxiety
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What are some mood stabilising drugs?

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  • Lithium
  • Carbamazepine
  • Sodium Valproate
  • Lamotrigine
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Why is the patient taking an antidepressant?

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  • Not always used to treat depression so need to ask patient
  • Treat depression
  • Treat anxiety disorder including OCD and panic attacks
  • Pain relief
  • Help psychological treatments
  • Promote learning of new behaviours
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What are the Tricyclic antidepressants names?

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Original
- Amitriptyline, Nortriptyline, Dosulepin
New
- Imipramine, Doxepin

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What are some side effects of Tricyclic antidepressants?

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  • Dry mouth
  • Sedation (so take at night)
  • Weight gain (reduction in feeling full)
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What patients do you need to be cautious with when prescribing Tricyclic antidepressants?

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  • Glaucoma and Prostatism
  • Cause rise in eye pressure and blockage of urine output
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What are SSRIs?

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  • Popular brand is Prozac
    Other inc
  • Fluoxetine, paroxetine, fluvoxamine
  • Citalopram, Setraline
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What are the side effects of SSRI’s?

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  • Acute anxiety disorders
  • Sedation
  • Dry mouth
  • Gastrointestinal upset
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What are Monoamine oxidase inhibitors?

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  • MAOI
  • Phenelzine
  • Isocarboxazid
  • Selegeline
25
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What are the interactions of MAOIs?

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Indirect acting sympathomimetic amines e.g. ephedrine
- Has enhanced vasoconstrictor effect
- Cold and cough remedies

Foodstuffs
- Tyramine containing products like alcohol/low alcohol, bovril/oxo/marmite, cheese, herring, beans
- Patients can’t be given these drugs unless they understand the threat to their life if eating these

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What are some other drugs that can be used as antidepressants but not usually started by a GP but a Psychiatrist?

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  • Venlafaxine
  • Mirtazapine
  • Nefazadone
  • Reboxetine
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What should you avoid if prescribing Lithium?

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  • NSAIDs
  • Metronidazole
28
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What antipsychotic medicines can be given to treat episodes of mania?

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  • Aripiprazole
  • Olanzapine
  • Quetiapine
  • Risperidone
29
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What are the direct drug effects of antidepressants in dentistry?

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  • Dry mouth which can ultimately cause caries
  • Sedation
  • Facial dyskinesias (uncontrollable facial twitches)
30
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What are Psychoses?

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  • Perceptual abnormalities
  • Can be manic depression
  • Schizophrenia
  • Korsakoff’s Psychosis (alcohol induced brain degeneration)
  • Difficult to treat in dentistry during acute episodes
31
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What are the drug effects of Psychoses meds?

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  • Dry mouth
  • Drug interactions
  • Dyskinesia (tonic or dystonia)
32
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What is Schizoprenia?

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  • Thought disorder
  • Fundamental and characteristic distortions of thinking and perception
  • Various types of delusion (sometimes bizarre)
  • Auditory hallucinations which are often threatening and derogatory
33
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What does Schizophrenia include?

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  • Relapsing and remitting periods of acute psychosis
  • Cumulative, chronic deficits in motivational, affective and social domains
34
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Why does Schizophrenia occur?

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Genetic susceptibility - multigene
Environmental - potential risk factors
Drug abuse - Cocaine, amphetamine, ectasy, opiate
- Prevalence is 1-2%

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How is Schizophrenia managed?

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Psychological therapy
- CBT
- Cognitive remediation
- Family intervention

Drug therapy
- Oral or depot IM injection (issue with compliance and frequency of requirement as they may not see themselves with an illness or anything wrong)
- Dopamine antagonist drugs
- Atypical antipsychotics

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What side effects can dopamine antagonist drugs cause?

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  • Cause extrapyramidal side effects like inability to sit still, involuntary muscle contraction, involuntary facial movements
  • Sedation
  • Dry mouth
  • Atypical antipsychotics preferred as less likely to produce these side effects
37
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What are some older antipsychotic drugs used?

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  • Butyrophenones
  • Phenothiazines
  • Thioxanthenes
38
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What are some new atypical antipsychotics drugs?

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  • Sulpiride
  • Respiridone
  • Clozapine
  • Quetiapine
  • Aripiprazole
  • Olanzapine
39
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What are some extrapyramidal side effects of antipsychotics?

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  • Akathisia
  • Dystonia
  • Parkinsonism
  • Tardive dyskinesia (only one that doesn’t go away if medicine stopped)
40
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What is Dystonia?

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  • Muscles involuntary contract and contort leading to painful positions and movement
41
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What is Akathisia?

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  • Restlessness, hard to sit still or down
  • Tapping fingers, rocking, crossing and uncrossing legs
42
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What is Parkinsonism?

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  • Same as Parkinson’s but caused by meds not disease
  • Tremor, slower thought process, slower movements, rigid muscles , facial stiffness
43
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What is tardive dyskinesia?

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  • Uncontrollable facial movements like sucking or chewing, lip smacking, sticking tongue out
  • Does not go away if medicine stopped
44
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How are extrapyramidal symptoms treated?

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  • Use atypical antipsychotic instead
  • Use beta-adrenergic blockers (Propanolol/Metropolol)
  • Anticholinergics to reduce effect of acytlycholine e.g. Benxtropine (Dry mouth)
45
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What is anorexia nervosa?

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  • Altered perception of body image
  • Don’t eat
  • oral effects of malnutrition inc ulcers, dry mouth, infections, bleeding gums
46
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What is Bulimia?

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  • Normal weight
  • Tend to binge/vomit
  • Use laxatives, excessive exercise, diuretics
  • Comfort eating as maybe stress reaction
  • Dental erosion and oesophageal stricture
47
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What is comfort eating?

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  • Eating out of comfort of anxiety
48
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What are the variations of personality types?

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  • Overachiever
  • Dramatic
  • Daydreamer
  • Worrier
  • Isolated introvert
  • Perfectionist
49
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What are the different personality disorders?

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  • Borderline personality disorder
  • Antisocial personality disorder
  • Histrionic personality disorder
  • Narcissistic personality disorder
  • Avoidant personality disorder
  • Dependent personality disorder
  • Schizoid personality disorder
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What is borderline personality disorder?

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  • Instability in interpersonal relationships, self image and affects and marked impulsivity
51
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What is antisocial personality disorder?

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  • Disregard for and violation of rights of others?
52
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What is Histrionic personality disorder?

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  • Excessive emotionality and attention seeking
53
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What is narcissistic personality disorder?

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  • Grandiosity, need for admiration, lack of empathy
54
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What is avoidant personality disorder?

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  • Social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, hypersensitivity to negative evaluation
55
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What is dependent personality disorder?

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  • Submissive and clinging behaviour related to excessive need to be taken of
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What is Schizoid personality disorder?

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  • Detachment from social relationships and restricted range of emotional expression
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What are some symptoms of borderline personality disorder?

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  • Deep fear
  • Very black or white thinking
  • Stress paranoia
  • Unstable relationships
  • Changes in self image
  • Impulsive behaviour
  • Suicidal threats
  • Excessive mood swings
  • Feelings of solitude
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What are the subtypes of borderline personality disorder?

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  • Discouraged borderline
  • Impulsive borderline
  • Petulant borderline
  • Self-destructive borderline

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