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1
Q

What is the Minnesota Mulitphasic Personality Inventory test used for?

A

Assess personality and ID psychpathologies

-mean score of 50, SD 10

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2
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Semantic memory located where?

A

Inferolateral Temporal lobe

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3
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What are the long acting (> 20 hour) benzos?

A

Diazepam, Clonazepam

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4
Q

What refers to the sudden loss of muscle tone?

Sx of what?

A

Cataplexy

Narcolepsy

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5
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What TCAs are the tertiary amines?

A 
AICD
Amitriptyline
Imipramine
Clomipramine
Doxepin
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6
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What are the secondary TCA amines?

A

Nortriptyline

Desipramine

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7
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Pt w/hepatic encephalopathy shows what on EEG?

A

Triphasic waves

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According to Freud, what contains the instinctual drives?

A

The Id

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9
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What is the most important factor in assessing a pt’s risk of violence?

A

Hx of violence

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10
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What is the #1 SE in SSRI?

A

GI disturbance

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11
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What are important CYP450 inducers?

What does this mean?

A

Tobacco, Carbamazepine, barbs, St Johns Wort

Decreased level of drug

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12
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What is the primary metabolite of dopamine?

Found where?

A

Homovanillic acid (HVA)

CSF, blood, urine

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13
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Pt w/opioid intox: shows what on EEG?

A

Dec alpha, inc voltage of delta and theta waves

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14
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Person that is hyposexual, emotionally intense, and has viscosity and a peculiar perseverative approach to interactions with others is suffering from what?

A

Temporal lobe epilepsy

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15
Q

What receptor does sumatriptan target?

A

5-HT1D

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16
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What is Pregabalin used to treat?

A

GAD (2nd line)

Fibromyalgia

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17
Q

Who decided competence?

Capacity?

A

Judge

Dr

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18
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A “blanky” that comforts a child is called what according to Winnicott?

A

Transitional object

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19
Q

all primary psychiatric disorders are recorded in what axis?

Other than what?

Those go where?

A

1

Retard or personality

2

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20
Q

Chlorpromazine SE?

A

Ortho HoTN
Blue-gray skin discoloration
Cornea/lens deposits

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21
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What receptors do atypical antipsychotics target?

22
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What is Memantine used to treat?

Should be used with what?

A

Dementia

AChE-i

23
Q

Circadian rhythms are targeted by what receptor?

24
Q

Pt w/caffeine withdrawal shows what on EEG?

Nicotine withdrawal?

A

Inc in amplitude of theta activity

Dec in alpha activity

25
Q

What are the 4 elements of informed consent?

A

Reason for treatment
Risks and benefits
Alternatives
Refused treatment consequences

26
Q

Antiparkinsonism anticholinergic drugs target what receptor?

27
Q

Episodic memory located where?

A 
Medial temporal lobe
Anterior thalamic Nucleus 
Mamillary bodies
Fornix
Prefrontal cortex
28
Q

Procedural memory located where?

A

BG

Cerebellum

29
Q

What refers to an immobile position that is constantly maintained?

30
Q

What drug is best at treating mania w/mixed features and rapid-cycling bipolar disorder?

What must be checked during treatment?

A

Carbamazepine

CBC, LFT

31
Q

What antipsychotics are better at treating the negative psychotic symptoms?

A

Atypicals - 2nd gen

32
Q

Pt that used weed shows what on EEG?

A

Inc alpha activity in the frontal area of brain but OVERALL slows alpha activity

33
Q

Pt w/electrolyte imbalance - stroke shows what on EEG?

A

Diffuse slowing of background rhythms

34
Q

What is the most significant developmental event of middle childhood (age 6-12)?

A

Going to school

35
Q

What axis do medical conditions go in?

36
Q
  • symptoms of schizophrenia via what brain pathway?
A

Dec dopaminergic action in the mesocortical pathway

37
Q

According to Freud, whose function is to find an equilibrium between gratification of the instinctual drives and the rules of society?

38
Q

+ symptoms of schizophrenia occur in what brain pathway?

What is involved?

A

Mesolimbic dopamine

nucleus acumen’s, fornix, amygdala and hippocampus

39
Q

Thioridazine SE?

A

Retinitis pigmentosa

40
Q

What are the Short acting BENZOs?

A

Triazolam, Midazolam

41
Q

Pt w/CJD shows what on EEG?

A

Generalized periodic sharp waves

42
Q

Periodic lateralizing epileptiform discharges on EEG indicates what?

43
Q

What axis does global assessment of functioning go in?

44
Q

What SSRI is only approved to treat OCD?

A

Fluvoxamine

45
Q

According to Freud, what is the agency that contains the internalized parental and societal rules and dictates to the ego what is not to be done?

46
Q

Avg IQ?

V. Superior?

High Avg?

Superior?

A

90-109

> 130

110-119

120-129

47
Q

What are important CYP450 inhibitors?

Means what?

A

Fluvoaxmine, Fluoxetine, Paroxetine

Increased levels of drug

48
Q

What axis do stressors in the pt’s life go in?

49
Q

What is a compulsive act performed in an attempt to negate or avoid the consequences of a fantasized action that is the result of an obsessional impulse?

Seen in what?

A

Undoing

OCD

50
Q

Biggest SE of venlafaxine?

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