Diagnosis Flashcards
What is sleep apnea?
A breathing related sleep disorder
The presence of daytime sleepiness, episodes of loss of muscle tone associated with intense emotion, and hypnagogic hallucinations suggested diagnosis of what?
Narcolepsy
What is primary insomnia?
Primary insomnia resultant sleep disruption that leads to excessive sleepiness however cataplexy and hallucinations are absent
What is cataplexy?
Seven bilateral loss of muscle tone that is frequently triggered by intense emotion
What are the characteristics of sleep terror disorder?
Abrupt awakening from sleep, intense fear and autonomic arousal, relative unresponsiveness to comfort by others, and amnesia for the episode.
The predictor cut off on a test is another word for what?
The cut off score on the test
What is construct validity?
Construct validity looks at how well a test measures and underlying construct such as creativity by using methods such as factor analysis or the multi treat, multi method matrix
What does criterion related validity measure?
It looks at how well a test predicts criterion outcome by correlating scores on the predictor test with a measure of the outcome.
Primary game is an issue in what diagnosis?
Conversion disorder. The patient involuntarily produces symptoms in order to keep the conflict out of consciousness.
Schizophrenia has the best prognosis is what?
If the illness has an abrupt onset.
The major feature of this disorder is the deliberate feigning of medical symptoms.
Factitious disorder
With respect to schizophrenia what is the algorithm for diagnosis?
First assess for catatonic type and if it is present, go no further. Second offense for disorganized and go no further third for paranoid type and finally undifferentiated
For separation anxiety the desert can be diagnosed in children before the age of what?
6
