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Describe the features of antisocial personality disorder. what cluster?

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-Cluster B -disregard moral values & social norms -little empathy -poor impulse control - drug abuse -over represented in prison populations

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Describe the features of borderline personality disorder. What cluster?

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Cluster B -unstable moods - rapid change from intense joy to intense rage -split things - completely good or completely bad -threaten suicide or self harm - fear of people leaving them

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Describe the features of histrionic personality disorder. what cluster?

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Cluster B -attention seeking behaviour -intense emotionality -manipulate to draw attention -many friends few close friends as seen as shallow and flighty

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Describe the features of narissitic personality disorder. What cluster?

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Cluster B -Grandiose image -I’m the best/deserve the best -poor at seeing other ideas as valid -fragile self esteem -come across as pretentious, self centred and entitled -lack empathy.

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what treatment would you give for a person with a cluster B personality disorder?

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Dialect behavioural therapy

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What are the 3 cluster A personality disorders?

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  • paranoid - delusional
  • Schizoid - socially withdrawn
  • Schizotypal - distorted reality
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Describe the features of paranoid personality disorder. what cluster?

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Cluster A -very sensitive -suspicious -distrusts loyalty -holds grudges -combative sense of personal rights -self referential

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Describe the features of schizoid personality disorder. What cluster?

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Cluster A -no pleasure from activities -emotional coldness or flattened affect -limited capacity to express -indifferent to praise or criticism -little interest in sexual experience -solitary -fantasize and introspective

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Describe the features of Schizotypal personality disorder. What cluster?

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Cluster A -social and interpersonal defecits -magical thinking -vague -suspiciousness -excess social anxiety

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What’s a helpful pneumonic for personality disorders?

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-ABC WWW -weird, wild and worried

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Describe the features of Avoidant personality disorder. what cluster?

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Cluster C -seeks social relationship but avoids social situations -hypersensitive to rejection

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Describe the features of Obsessive-Compulsive personality disorder. what cluster?

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Cluster C -inflexible but inefficient -can be happy with how they are or not

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describe the features of a Dependent personality disorder. what cluster?

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Cluster C -reliance on others to make decisions -feelings of helplessness & incompetence -tendency to transfer responsibility

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What are the 3 emergency psychiatric conditions?

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  • Acute dystonic reaction
  • Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome
  • Serotonin syndrome
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What causes an Acute Dystonic Reaction?

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  • happens within a week or starting/increasing dose of an antipsychotic
  • usually within first few hours
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How may an acute dystonic reaction present?

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-affects mainly head and neck muscles -torticollis - shortening of one SCM -forceful tongue protrusion -grimacing -blepharospasm

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How do you manage an acute dystonic reaction?

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-Discontinue causative agent -IM anticholinergic - Procyclidine

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How does Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome present? What causes it?

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  • life threatening complication of an antipsychotic medication
  • within 2 weeks of the first dose
  • Hyperthermia (>38deg), muscle rigidity, altered mental state, autonomic dysfunction.
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What blood test may help confirm neuroleptic malignant syndrome?

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-elevated CK

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How would you manage neuroleptic malignant syndrome?

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  • ABCDE
  • Stop causative agent
  • IV benzos for agitation
  • Cooling devices/antipyretics
  • treat rhabdomyolysis
  • Dantrolene for muscle relaxation
  • Bromocriptine for D2 agonism
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What is the pneumonic for depression symptoms?

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DEAD SWAMP Depressed mood Energy reduced Anhedonia Disturbed sleep Suicidal ideation Worthlessness Appetite changes Mentation decreased (poor concentration) Psychomotor retardation

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What’s the first line medication treatment for depression?

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SSRI - sertraline, fluoxetine, citalopram

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Give an example of an SNRI? are there any side effects?

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-Venlafaxine - Arrhythmias -Duloxetine

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Give an example of a MAO inhibitor? and what substance in foods must you swerve if on them?

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-Phenelzine -tyramine containing foods such as cheese -HTN crisis if not

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What pneumonic helps you remember symptoms of mania present in Bipolar?
I DIG FAST Irritability/elevated mood Distractibility Inhibition lost Grandiosity Flight of ideas Activity increased Sleep not needed Talkative
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What mood stabilisers are there for Bipolar disorder?
- Lithium - Sodium Valproate - Lamotrigine +/- antipsychotic
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What side effects can lithium cause?
- tremor - anorexia - D+V - Ataxia - Dysarthria - Delirium - Fasciculations - hypotension - arrhythmias - Seizures - Coma
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How can you tell the difference between Mania and Hypomania?
- Mania may present with psychotic symptoms and hypomania won't - Hypomania also lasts for 3-4 days and mania has to have bene for greater than 7 days - Hypomania may not affect ADL
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What's an example of a tricyclic antidepressant? some side effects?
-Amitriptyline -anticholinergic effects Can't pee Can't see Can't spit Can't shit
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What's the acronym for remembering suicide risk factors?
SAD PERSONS Sex - male Age (\<20-\>44) Depression Previous suicide attempt Ethanol abuse Rational thinking loss (psychosis) Social support LACKING Organised suicide plan: do they have means? did they write a note? No spouse Sickness
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What are the 4 types of antidepressants we need to know about? Give an example of each.
MOAi - phenelzine TCA - amytriptiline SSRIs - fluoxetine SNRIs - Veneflexine
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What sort of drug is phenelzine? What are it's potential side effect?
- MOAi - cheese effect - tyramine rish foods can cause V high blood pressure - severe drug interactins - can cause serotonin syndrome when taken with other Anti-Ds
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What sort of drug is amytriptilline? What are it's side effects?
- Tricyclic antidepressant - anticholinergic effects - can't pee, can't see, can't spit can't shit - overdose can cause seizures
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What type of drug is fluoxetine? What are some side effects?
- Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor - Nausea, headache, GI upset - Agitation, akathisia, anxiety - Sexual dysfunction - insomnia - hyponatraemia - increase risk of suicidal ideation on initiation of treatment
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Do antidepressants actually work? (according to the lecture slide - not recent metaanalysis)
STAR\*D 37% initial remission 67% overall
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How long do antidepressants take to work?
- 2 weeks - longer in elederly - shorter in children
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How long do you need to be taking Antidepressants for?
- 6-9 months if first episode - 2 years if recurfrent depressice disorder, very severe episode, major relapse factors present
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What is the classical tirad of Serotonin Syndrome?
CAN - cognitive dysfunction - altered mental state - Automonic dysfunction - tachycardia, sweating, nausea, vomiting - Neuromuscular dysfunction - rigidity, hyperreflexia, myoclonus, hyperthermia
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What is the treatment for serotonin syndrome?
- depends on presentatino severity - supportive and stopping medication - Cyproheptadine (5-HT2 antagonist)
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Name 4 atypical antipsychotics? how do they work?
- haloperidol, clozapine, resperidone, onlazapine - partial anatagonists to dopamine recpetors
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How does the dopamine hypothesis pertain to positive and negative symptoms in schizophrenia?
- postive Sx = overactivity of the Meso-Limbic pathway - negative Sx = relative underactivity in Mesocortical pathway
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What are some side effects of atypical antipsychotics?
- increased apetite and WEIGHT GAIN - pronlonged QT syndrome - headaches and dizziness - sleeping problems/extreme tiredness - weakness
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how long shoud a patient remain on antipsychotics?
risk of relapse continues up until 18 months post remission
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When is clozapin indicated? What precautions should be taken?
- offered in psychosis when 2 or more treatments have been tried unsuccessfully - FBC monitoring due to the risk of agranulocytosis - also can cause hypersalivation and constipation
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How quickly do antipsychotics take effect?
- within 24 hours - most improvement seen within first 2 weeks compared to any other 2 weeks - reduction in behavioural impact of symptoms and preocupation - perspective and conviction reducing later

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