I wanna do psychiatry anyway Flashcards
absence of interpretations and the focus on
helping the patient function in the real world
supportive therapy
Rx for akathisia
b-blocker
benzo
Rx for acute dystonia
benztropine/ diphenhydramine
Ideational apraxia
inability to put a sequence of skilled acts together in a row
seen in alzheimer’s
Anton syndrome
The failure to acknowledge blindness.
Klüver-Bucy syndrome
amygdala damage
disinhibited behavior (eg, hyperphagia, hypersexuality, hyperorality).
Associated with HSV-1 encephalitis
Nondominant parietal cortex injury
Hemispatial neglect syndrome (agnosia of the contralateral side of the world).
Dominant parietal cortex
Agraphia, acalculia, finger agnosia, left-right
disorientation.
Gerstmann syndrome.
Reticular activating system (midbrain)
Reduced levels of arousal and wakefulness (eg, coma).
Subthalamic nucleus injury
Contralateral hemiballismus.
Broca area is where
inferior frontal gyrus of frontal lobe
Nonfluent spontaneous speech, good auditory comprehension, poor repetition, poor naming
Wernicke area is where
superior temporal gyrus of temporal lobe
Fluent spontaneous speech, poor auditory comprehension, poor repetition, poor naming.