Other psychopathology Flashcards
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Deja vu
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- feeling of having seen or experienced an event
- occurs more under stress
2
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Deja vecu
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-perception that events happening now have already been lived
3
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Jamais vu
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- an experience that has been experienced before is not associated with feelings of familiarity
- occurs in TLE
4
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Confabulation
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- seen in Korsakovs
- faslification of memory occuring in clear consciousness
- suggestibility is present
- in organic states
5
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Pseudologia fantastica
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- fluent plausible lying with statements made in extreme or frandiose nature
- usually dissocial or histrionic personality disorder
6
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Ganser’s syndrome
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- considered a hysterical dissociative disorder
- approximate answers
- clouding of consciousness
- psychogenic, physical symptoms
- pseudohallucinations
- amnesic for their abnormal behaviour
7
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Couvade syndrome
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- sympathetic pregnancy that partners get during their wives pregancies
- conversion symptom not delusional
8
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Pseudocyesis
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-condition where a woman experiences clinical signs of pregnancy without being pregnant and the patient is convinced of pregnancy
9
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Koro
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- culture-bound anxiety where the patient believes that his penis shrinking into his abdomen and he will die as a result
- this is considered to be desomatization
- shenkui
10
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Lycanthropy
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-form of possession where the patient loses awareness and identity and believes that he has been transformed into an animal (usually a wolf)
11
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Temporal lobe epilepsy
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- autonomic sensations are most comon auras- epigastric aura, salivation, vertigo
- forced thinking
- evocation of thought-intrusion of stereotyped words or thoughts
- sudden obstruction to flow of thought
- panoramic memory-like watching a video
- psychic seizures-jamais vu, deja v, depersonalisation
- uncinate crisies-hallucinations of taste and smell of uncinate origin associated with dream-like reminiscene and altered consciousness
- strong affective experience
12
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Dostoevsky’s epilepsy
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-refers to ecstatic content of epileptic aura
13
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Parietal lobe epilepsy
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- somatosensory seizures- Jacksonian march where sensation marches in a predictable pattern from the face to the hand up the arm down the leg
- 25% have pain
- somatic illusions- may feel their body is in a weird position
- visual hallucinations- patients experience objects being too close,too large, too small, slanted, moving
14
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Frontal lobe seizures
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- short, occur in clusters and during sleep
- include strange automatisms such as bicycling movemement
- patient may remain fully aware with these movements
- gelastic-laughing, dacrystic- crying
15
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Depersonalisation
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-feeling as if they are unreal
