Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders (Morrison, Ch. 5) Flashcards
The decreasing abilities or loss of normal functions
(affect, speech, avolition)
Negative Symptoms
An excess or distortion of normal functions (e.g. delusions,
hallucinations, etc.)
Positive Symptoms
The ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy
Reality Testing
Patients who are preoccupied with obsessional ideas or certain repetitive behaviors
Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders
Morrison’s comments on common features among Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders are:
- Onset when young
- Similar comorbidity (depression)
- Family history of OCD
- Similar treatment response
- Hints of dysfunction in the frontostriatal brain circuitry
Persistent ideas, thoughts, impulses, or images that are experienced as intrusive and unwanted that cause marked anxiety or distressed
Obsessions
Repetitive behaviors (e.g., hand washing, ordering, checking) or mental acts (e.g., praying, counting, repeating words silently) the goal of which is to prevent or reduce anxiety or distress, not to provide pleasure or gratification.
Compulsions
Which disorder’s Diagnostic Criteria is the following:
A. Either obsessions OR compulsions OR both
Obsessions as defined by 1 and 2 below:
1. Persistent ideas, thoughts, impulses, or images that are experienced as intrusive and unwanted that cause marked anxiety or distressed
2. The person attempts to ignore or suppress such thoughts, impulses, or images, or to neutralize them with some other thought or action
Compulsions as defined by 1 & 2 (below)
1. Repetitive behaviors (e.g., hand washing, ordering, checking) or mental acts (e.g., praying, counting, repeating words silently) the goal of which is to prevent or reduce anxiety or distress, not to provide pleasure or gratification.
2. The behaviors or mental acts are aimed at preventing or reducing distress or preventing some dreaded event or situation; however, these behaviors or mental acts either are not connected in a realistic way with what they are designed to neutralize or prevent or are clearly excessive
B. The obsessions or compulsions caused marked distress, are time-consuming
(take ≥ 1 hour a day), or significantly interfere with the functioning
C. The disturbance is not due to substance use or a general medical condition
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Prevalence for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is:
1.2-2%
The onset for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is typically in:
Adolescence or early adulthood (between 19 and 24 years; mean age of onset 19 years old)
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is more common in higher _______ and high _______.
Socioeconomic status
intelligence
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder appears to affect men and women about _____.
equally
_____ of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder comorbid with depression.
2/3
Up to ____% of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder attempt suicide.
25%
______ plays an important role in OCD
Heredity
Among family members of OCD patients, the prevalence of OCD and related symptoms is ______ than in the general population.
6 times higher
For OCD: ___% concordance rate for monozygotic twins, ___% concordance rate for dizygotic twins.
.57%
.22%
Without treatment for OCD, chronic course: Remission rate around __% among adults 40 years after diagnosis.
20%
____ has a preoccupation with an imagined defect or flaw in physical appearance not observable or appear slight to others
Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)