Lange - Adult Psychopathology 3 Flashcards
Thought insertion?
Somatic delusions?
Patient believes thought from some external entities are placed in his mind
Delusion about the patient’s body (body part is diseased)
Neurologic problems in patients with schizophrenia?
#Short-term memory deficits #unstable smooth-pursuit eye movements #Sensory-gating abnormalities #Difficulty conceptualizing complex visual compositions
Localized versus
selective versus
Generalized amnesia versus
continuous amnesia?
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
Perseveration?
Pointless repetition of a word, phrase, or idea
Changes in sleep stages during depression?
#REM sleep latency decreases #REM sleep redistributed so that most of it occurs in first half of the night
Cacodemonomania?
Delusion of being poisoned by evil spirit
Presents with feeling that her body is disintegrated – suspected diagnosis?
May present with what hallucination?
Cotard syndrome
Sensation of rancid or rotting odor
Fregoli syndrome?
Delusion that a person is taking the form of a number of different people/creatures
Koro?
Fear that penis is shrinking into the body
Haptic hallucination?
Tactile hallucinations where one feels like he’s being touched (by a phantom)
Rabbits syndrome is a side effect of?
neuroleptics
Derealization versus Depersonalization?
One’s surroundings are strange/unreal
Versus
One’s own identity is lost or strange
Hypernesia?
Abnormal Recall of details
Dissociative amnesia?
Loss of memory without the loss of the ability to form new memories (usually associated with emotional trauma, not drugs/medical illness)
Prosopagnosia?
Inability to remember faces despite recognizing that they are faces
Astereognosis?
Inability to recognize an object by touch despite the tactile sensations being intact
Prosody?
Describes the melody, rhythm, or intonation of speech that carries it’s emotional quality
Scanning speech?
The regular pauses between syllables, which breaks up fluidity but does not cause the repeating of sounds or symbols
Micropsia and Macropsia?
Misperceptions of objects being smaller or larger than they really are
Palinopsia?
Persistence of a visual image after the stimulus has been removed
patient with OCD. fMRI will show increased activity in?
#Caudate nucleus #Frontal lobes #Cingulum
Aexia versus apraxia
And ability to read versus inability to perform learned motor skills
Paralinguistic components of speech?
Nonverbal communication (facial expressions and gestures)
Zar?
Delusional possession by a spirit
Kuru?
Slowly progressive neurologic disease leading to death (similar to CJD)
Neuroimaging of schizophrenia?
#Decreased hippocampal size #decreased parahippocampal gyrus #Smaller amygdala