Lange - Adult Psychopathology 3

Question 0

Thought insertion?

Somatic delusions?

Answer 0

Patient believes thought from some external entities are placed in his mind

Delusion about the patient’s body (body part is diseased)

Question 1

Neurologic problems in patients with schizophrenia?

Answer 1

#Short-term memory deficits 
#unstable smooth-pursuit eye movements
#Sensory-gating abnormalities
#Difficulty conceptualizing complex visual compositions

Question 2

Localized versus

selective versus

Generalized amnesia versus

continuous amnesia?

Answer 2

Memory loss surrounding a discreet period

Memory loss of certain aspects of an event

Forget all events following a trauma

Forget entire life preceding event

Question 3

Perseveration?

Answer 3

Pointless repetition of a word, phrase, or idea

Question 4

Changes in sleep stages during depression?

Answer 4

#REM sleep latency decreases
#REM sleep redistributed so that most of it occurs in first half of the night

Question 5

Cacodemonomania?

Answer 5

Delusion of being poisoned by evil spirit

Question 6

Presents with feeling that her body is disintegrated – suspected diagnosis?

May present with what hallucination?

Answer 6

Cotard syndrome

Sensation of rancid or rotting odor

Question 7

Fregoli syndrome?

Answer 7

Delusion that a person is taking the form of a number of different people/creatures

Question 8

Koro?

Answer 8

Fear that penis is shrinking into the body

Question 9

Haptic hallucination?

Answer 9

Tactile hallucinations where one feels like he’s being touched (by a phantom)

Question 10

Rabbits syndrome is a side effect of?

Answer 10

neuroleptics

Question 11

Derealization versus Depersonalization?

Answer 11

One’s surroundings are strange/unreal

Versus

One’s own identity is lost or strange

Question 12

Hypernesia?

Answer 12

Abnormal Recall of details

Question 13

Dissociative amnesia?

Answer 13

Loss of memory without the loss of the ability to form new memories (usually associated with emotional trauma, not drugs/medical illness)

Question 14

Prosopagnosia?

Answer 14

Inability to remember faces despite recognizing that they are faces

Question 15

Astereognosis?

Answer 15

Inability to recognize an object by touch despite the tactile sensations being intact

Question 16

Prosody?

Answer 16

Describes the melody, rhythm, or intonation of speech that carries it’s emotional quality

Question 17

Scanning speech?

Answer 17

The regular pauses between syllables, which breaks up fluidity but does not cause the repeating of sounds or symbols

Question 18

Micropsia and Macropsia?

Answer 18

Misperceptions of objects being smaller or larger than they really are

Question 19

Palinopsia?

Answer 19

Persistence of a visual image after the stimulus has been removed

Question 20

patient with OCD. fMRI will show increased activity in?

Answer 20

#Caudate nucleus
#Frontal lobes
#Cingulum

Question 21

Aexia versus apraxia

Answer 21

And ability to read versus inability to perform learned motor skills

Question 22

Paralinguistic components of speech?

Answer 22

Nonverbal communication (facial expressions and gestures)

Question 23

Zar?

Answer 23

Delusional possession by a spirit

Question 24

Kuru?

Answer 24

Slowly progressive neurologic disease leading to death (similar to CJD)

Question 25

Neuroimaging of schizophrenia?

Answer 25

#Decreased hippocampal size
#decreased parahippocampal gyrus
#Smaller amygdala