Disease

Question 1

Schizophrenia

Answer 1

• 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)

Question 2

Positive symptoms

Answer 2

positive = add stuff

1) hallucinations -> perceptions that aren’t real

2) delusions -> thoughts that aren’t real

Question 3

Negative symptoms

Answer 3

negative = take away stuff

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

2) lack of social interaction

Question 4

Anxiety Disorders

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Mood Disorders

Answer 5

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)

Question 6

Bipolar Disorder

Answer 6

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

2) Bipolar II disorder: hypomania + a major depression

Question 7

Personality Disorder

Answer 7

• 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

Question 8

Narcissist vs. Borderline Personality Disorder

Answer 8

• 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)

Question 9

Dissociative Disorders

Answer 9

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)

Question 10

Illness Anxiety Disorder

Answer 10

(think) fear that you have a disease
- hypochondriac

Question 11

Somatic symptom disorder

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Conversion Disorder

Answer 12

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