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Neuroscience Week 8: Personality Disorders Flashcards

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Personality Definition

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Personality generative components

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part is inherent other is through experience

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A “normal” personality

4 main characteristics

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  • to function autonomously and competently
  • adjust to social environment
  • subjective sense of contentment
  • abilitiy to filfill one’s potential or to “self-actualize”
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Personality health

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Abnormal personality

3 main characteristics

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  • adaptive inflexibility
  • vicious circles
  • tenuous stability
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Common characteristics of personality disorders

6 listed

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DSM-5 Diagnosis of Personality Disorder

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Value of Personality Assessment perspectives

3 listed

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  • Dimensional
  • Projective
  • Categorical
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Value of Personality Assessment: Dimensional

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MMPI

NEO-FFI

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Value of Personality Assessment: Projection

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  • Rorschach
  • Thematic Apperception Test
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Value of Personality Assessment: Categorical

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DSM-5

ICD-10

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NEO-FFI

6 listed

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Five-factor inventory

  • openness to experience
  • conscientious
  • extroversion
  • agreeableness
  • neuroticism
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Parking lot of the Personality Disordered

11 types

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Cluster A - Weird

3 listed

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  • Paranoid
  • Schizoid
  • Schizotypal
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Paranoid personality disorder

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Distrust and suspiciousness

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Schizoid personality disorder

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Social detachment and restricted emotion

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Schizotypal personality disorder

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social deficits and disorted cognition/perception

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Paranoid personality disorder Prevalence

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2-4% of general population

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Schizoid personality disorder prevalence

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3-5% of general population

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Schizotypal personality disorder prevalence

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4-4.5% of general population

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Cluster B personality disorders

4 listed

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  • Antisocial
  • Borderline
  • Histrionic
  • Narcissistic
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Antisocial personality disorder prevalence

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Antisocial personality disorder

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Disregard for violation of rights of others

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Borderline personality disorder

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Instability of relationships, self-image and impulsivity

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Borderline personality disorder Prevalence

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Histrionic personality disorder

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Excessive emotionality and attention seeking

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Histrionic personality disorder prevalence

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Narcissistic personality disorder

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  • Grandiosity
  • need for admiration
  • lack of empathy
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Narcissistic personality disorder prevalence

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Cluster C - Personality disorders

3 listed

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WORRIED

  • Avoidant
  • Dependent
  • Obsessive compulsive
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Avoidant Personality disorder

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social inhibition

inadequacy feelings

hypersensitivity to negative evaluation

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Avoidant Personality disorder Prevalence

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Dependent Personality disorder

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  • excessive need to be taken care of
  • submissiveness
  • clinging
  • separtion fears
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Dependent Personality disorder prevalence

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Obsessive compulsive Personality disorder

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Obsessive compulsive Personality disorder Prevalence

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Treating personality disorders

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Treatment of paranoid personality disorder

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  • supportive psychotherapy
  • low dose anti-psychotic
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Treatment of Schizoid personality disorder

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supportive psychotherapy

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Treatment of Schizotypal personality disorder

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  • supportive psychotherapy
  • low dose antipsychotic
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Treatment of antisocial personality disorder

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  • time
  • substance use treatment
  • structure
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Treatment of borderline personality disorder

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  • DBT
  • Careful use of SSRI
  • Mood stabilizer
  • antipsychotic
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Treatment of Histrionic personality disorder

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  • Psychodynamic psychotherapy
  • CBT
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Treatment of Narcissistic personality disorder

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  • Psychodynamic psychotherapy
  • CBT
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Treatment of Avoidant personality disorder

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  • supportive psychotherapy
  • CBT
  • SSRI
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Treatment of Dependent personality disorder

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  • psychodynamic psychotherapy
  • CBT
  • group therapy
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Treatment of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

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  • psychodynamic psychotherapy
  • CBT
  • froup psychotherapy
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don’t give antisocial personality disorder psychotherapy because

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can give them more skills to manipulate people with

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Personality and the practice of medicine

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abrupt change in personality typically 40 and above

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medical or substance causes

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Question

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C. Paranoid personality

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Question

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D. Narcissistic personality disorder

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Question

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C. Histrionic personality features

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Question

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B. Borderline personality disorder

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