Lange Adult Psychopathology Flashcards
Schizophrenia monozygotic concordance percentage
50
Cotard syndrome
- nihilist delusional content
- in addition to lost possession, patients may feel they have lost blood, heart, intestines,
- believe the world beyond them has been reduced to nothing
Capgrass syndrome
- delusion of doubles
- people have been replaced by identically appearing imposters
Fergoli deluison
- variation of delusion of double
- familiar people assume the guise of strangers
what hormone is increased with depressed patients
cortisol
patient has made a threat against someone, what should you do
- secure the patient
2. then alert the person in danger
subclinical depression and episodes of hypomania
cyclothymic
major episode of depression and episode of hypomania
bipolar II
Kluver-Bucy syndrome
- docility
- lack of fear response
- atnerograde amnesia
- hyperphagia
- hypersexuality
Mobius syndrome
congenital absence of the facial nerves and nuclei
- bilateral facial paralysis
Punchdrunk syndrome
traumatic damage to substantia nigra
-ex. boxing
Kluver-Bucy syndrome is associated with what part of the brain
amygdala
Pregnant women wanting something to help get off heroin
methadone
not buprenorphine
MOA of Phenelzine
MOAI
Does indwelling Foley catheter increase or decrease the risk of developing UTI
increases
what type of drug is fluvoxamine
SSRI
For best possible outcomes, how many treatments of ECT is needed
6-12
Feelings and attitudes originating from the clinician, evoked by the patient is
countertransference
-azine
typical antipsychotic
Sexual masochism
aroused by psychologically or physically punishing acts by another person
sexual sadism
patient is aroused by giving sexual punishment to other
Fetishism
sexual arousal connected to nonliving objects
frotteruism
patient is sexually aroused by touching or rubbing up against a non consenting person
what is a typical symptom of PMDD
remittance of symptoms in a week after menses
how long does untreated depressive episode last
6-13 months
Best pharmacotherapy for panic disorder
CBT
factitious and malingering, conscious or unconscious
conscious
nonepileptic seizure
pseduoseizure
catalepsy
immobile state
cataplexy
with nacrolepsy
astereognosis
inability to recognize an object to by touch despite tactile sensation being intact
Prosopagnosia
inability to remember faces despite being able to recognize that they are faces
remote memory
ability to remember things that happened years ago
formication
tactile hallucination, one has sensation of bugs crawling on or under the skin
synesthesia
secondary sensation of an actual perception
- sensation of a color associated with a taste
areas of brain involved in OCD
caudate nucleus
frontal lobes
cingulum
Anomia
inability to name objects
paralinguistic components of speech
nonverbal communications such as facial expression
voyeurism
deriving sexual pleasure from watching another person or persons involved in the act of undressing or other sexually orientated activity
formication
sensation tha bugs are crawling on skin
Loss of ego boundaries
inappropriate conversational distance
What is the alarm center of the brain and is hyperactive in anxiety states
locus ceruleus
role of amygdala and hipocampus
fear/anger and memory formation
where is most serotonin synthesized
dorsal and medial raphe nucleus in brain stem
what does substantial nigra synthesize
dopamine
what does locus ceruleus synthesize
NE
role of nucleus accumbens
reward and pleasure
Frotterism
recurrent, intense sexual fantasies and behaviors involving touching or rubbing against a non consenting adult
exhibitionism
revealing on’e genitals to unsuspecting strangers
fetishism
sexual urges or fantasies involving an inanimate object
pedophilia
sexual fantasies and behaviors concerning children
voyerism
watching someone engage in disrobing, nudity, or sexual behavior
blocking histamine causes what
weight gain and sedation
projective identification
patients unacceptable feelings are projected to another, but the other acts in such a way that they become true
- patients states everyone is unloving, but then pushes therapist away, and therapist terminates relationship
projection
one’s unacceptable ideas or thoughts are seen as coming from another
