Disease Flashcards

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Schizophrenia

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  • break from reality (psychosis) “disorganized thought”
    • Dopamine-Serotonin-Hypothesis
  • regulation of dopamine -> positive symptoms
  • regulation of serotonin -> negative symptoms

Types:
1) paranoid ➕ (everyone out to get you)
2) disorganized (symptoms range all across schizophrenia)
3) catatonic (frozen, don’t feel anything)

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Positive symptoms

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positive = add stuff

1) hallucinations -> perceptions that aren’t real

2) delusions -> thoughts that aren’t real

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Negative symptoms

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negative = take away stuff

1) lack of affect (emotions) (don’t convey them)

2) lack of social interaction

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Anxiety Disorders

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1) GAD -> generalized anxiety disorder
2) phobia -> irrational fear
3) panic disorder -> panic attack
4) PTSD
5) OCD -> obsessive compulsive disorder
intrusive thoughts rituals
- perform ritual to get rid of thought

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Mood Disorders

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abnormally long periods of sadness

1) major depression: at least 2 weeks, 5 symptoms
2) SAD -> seasonal affective disorder
summer (:
winter ):
3) bipolar (manic-depressive)

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Bipolar Disorder

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1) Bipolar I disorder: manic episode
(doesn’t require depression)

2) Bipolar II disorder: hypomania + a major depression

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Personality Disorder

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• Cluster A: paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal
- A is first because paranoid
• Cluster B: antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissist (center of attention, manipulative)
- B: center letter -> center of attention
• Cluster C: avoidant, dependent
Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder
- C: clingy, control

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Narcissist vs. Borderline Personality Disorder

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  • Narcissistic: full of yourself
    - need people to manipulate/tell you how great you are
  • Borderline: difficult to deal with
    - need a friend: don’t leave me alone (moody, unpredictable)
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Dissociative Disorders

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distress/disability from abnormalities of identity or memory

  • Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder)
  • Dissociative Fugue: do something bad -> dissociate -> few hours later realize what you did (Ex: Halle Barry)
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Illness Anxiety Disorder

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(think) fear that you have a disease
- hypochondriac

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Somatic symptom disorder

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  • have real symptoms but not from disease
  • causes functional impairments -> stops you from going to school
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Conversion Disorder

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  • blind/numb arm -> stressful exam over -> symptoms go away
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