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What is classical conditioning using an example and naming the stimuli and responses?

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  • Steak (UNCONDITIONED stimulus) makes a dog drool (NATURAL response).
  • Associating a bell (CODITIONAL stimulus) with a steak makes dog drooln absence of steak: the bell has become the CONDITIONED stimulus and drooling at it is the CONDITIONED RESPONSE
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How are natural and conditioned response different?

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The response is the same, it is just called the conditioned response when it occurs in response to the conditioned stimulus

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What are consequences and in what model are they seen?

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Outcomes of a behavior influencing the likelihood it will happen again

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Difference between stimulus in classical and operant conditioning?

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Classical: stimulus is presented before behaviour
Operant: consequence given after behavior to increase or decrease its likelihood

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What are positive and negative consequences?

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**Remember, a consequence can be a punishment, or a reinforcement:
Positive consequences: involves DOING something
Negative consequences: involve stopping or withholding something

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What are reinforcement and punishment?

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*Both are consequences to a certain behavior:
Reinforcement: makes behavior more likely
Punishment: makes behavior it less likely

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What is negative reinforcement?

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Temporarily removing adverse condition when behavior is performed

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What is negative punishment?

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Temporarily removing a non adverse condition when a behavior is performed
***Taking away a kids toys when they bite you

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What is extinction?

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Loss of a trained behavior after the stimulus is removed

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What is transference?

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PATIENT is projecting a past relationship onto the clinician

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What is COUNTERtransference?

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CLINICIAN is transferring past relationship onto patient

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What is the isolation defense?

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“Think isolation of affect”

- You are isolating your emotions even when talking about a terrible event

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What is identification?

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Modeling your identity on someone more powerful?

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What is splitting?

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Dividing the world into absolutes: everything is either all good, or all bad
**Characteristic of borderline personality disorder

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What is splitting characteristic of?

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Borderline personality disorder

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What is SUBconsciously blocking a painful memory?

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Repression

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What is repression?

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SUBconsciously blocking a painful memory

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What is consciously blocking a painful memory?

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Suppression

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What is suppression?

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Consciously blocking a painful memory

  • Aware it is going on but you choose not to think about it
  • Choosing not to worry about something for now
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Most mature of suppression, repression, and denial?

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Suppression

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What is denial?

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You are consciously aware of bad new but you are subconsciously unable to accept

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What is projection?

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Seeing your shitty qualities in someone else

- Think of a projector machine projecting them onto the wall or someone else

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What is displacement?

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Taking your anger from one person and acting it out on another person - think, your anger is misplaced!

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What is fixation?

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Never growing up

- Adults who have been doing something childish for a while such as video games

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What is regression?

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Have grown up but revert back to old behavior

- Starting to wet bed or such thumb in response to a stressor

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What is reaction formation?

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Instead of performing and unacceptable action, you perform the exact opposite
- Obsessed with sex so you become a celibate priest

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What is sublimation?

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Aware of anger but you channel it to something similar but safer:
- I want to punch someone but I am going to play hockey instead

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28
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Rates and genetics of schizophrenia?

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General population: 1%
First degree relative: 10%
Monozygotic Twin: 50%

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Effects of infant deprivation of care?

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“Weak, wordless, wary, wanting”

  • Failure to thrive
  • Low verbal scores
  • Difficulty trusting others
  • Poor social development
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What is reactive attachment disorder?

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  • Lack of social stimulation causing unresponsiveness and physical decline
  • Can lead to coma and death
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What do spiral fractures indicated?

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Child abuse from grabbing and twisting long bones

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32
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Signs of shaken baby?

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  1. Rib bruise and fracture
  2. Cervical spine fracture
  3. Retinal hemorrhage and detachment
  4. Subdural hematoma w/o external trauma
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Who usually commits physical child abuse?

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Caregiver, females for often

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Who usually commits sexual abuse?

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Not the caregiver but a male the child knows

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Signs of child abuse?

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  1. Sexually precocious: outside normal body curiosity
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36
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Signs of osteogenesis imperfecta?

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  1. Blue sclera
  2. Multiple fractures
  3. Hearing loss
  4. Opalescent teeth
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What to do when you expect child neglect?

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Call CPS

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What is vulnerable child syndrome?

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  • Parents believe child is vulnerable to harm following serious illness or accident
  • Leads to missed school or overuse of medical system
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What is only non stimulant non habit forming medicine for ADHD?

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Atomoxetine

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40
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What is oppositional defiant disorder? Conduct?

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Oppositional: Consistent defiance and hostility to authority figures
Conduct: defiant but consistently are violating rights of others with criminal behavior common
*Start fires, steal, violent

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Difference between conduct disorder and antisocial personality disorder

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Same thing but:

Conduct disorder: 18 yo

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Presentation of tourettes?

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  1. Vocal tics

2. Motor tics

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2 associated diseases with tourettes?

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  1. OCD

2. ADHD

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Characteristics of autism spectrum?

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  1. Fixated and repetitive behavior
  2. Social disability
  3. Communication disability
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What is Rett syndrome?

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  • Only disease of autism spectrum with known cause
  • X linked recessive seen only in girls
  • If you dont have 1 normal X chromosome disease is deadly
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Diagnosis with autistic girl hand wringing?

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Rett syndrome

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Presentation of Rett?

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  1. Hand wringing
  2. Regression of verbal abilities
  3. Autism spectrum
  4. Only females
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2 Comorbidities of ADHD?

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  1. Tourette
  2. Conduct disorder
  3. Oppositional defiant
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Movement effect of ACH and dopamine?

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ACH: anti movement
De: pro movement

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De pro or anti psychotic?

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Pro “Dont act DOPEY”

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51
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Disease in which glutamate is high?

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Alzheimers

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52
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NTs in alzheimer’s?

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  1. Increased glutamate

2. Decreased ACH

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Which NT is pro memory?

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ACH

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NTs in anxiety?

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  1. High NE
  2. Low 5HT
  3. Low GABA
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NTs in depression?

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  1. Low NE
  2. Low 5ht
  3. Low DE
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NTs in huntington’s?

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  1. Increased DE
  2. Decreased ACH
  3. Low GABA
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NTs in parkinson’s?

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Opposite huntingtons

  1. Low DE
  2. Increased ACH
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58
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NTs in schizo?

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  1. High DE
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In which order do you lose your orientations?

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  1. Time
  2. Place
  3. Person
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What causes korsakoff syndrome? Signs?

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  • Mamillary body destruction from thiamine deficiency
  • Leads to anterograde amnesia
  • Confabulation seen
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What is dissociative amnesia?

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Retrograde amnesia secondary to emotional trauma

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What is dissociative amnesia?

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Trauma causing inability to remember personal info

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What is dissociative fugue?

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SEVERE loss of identity: wondering off to somewhere random sometimes even developing a new identity

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What is dissociated identity disorder?

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Psychological trauma causing multiple personalities

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What is depersonalization disorder?

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Feeling disconnected with interactions with world around you

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What is delirium?

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  • Acute onset, waxing and waning altered mental status

- Usually result of medical issues

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What is dementia?

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  • Chronic, progressive decline of mental status

- Usually in elderly

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Common symptoms of delirium and dementia?

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Delerium:
1. Lapse in consciousness and focus
2. Hallucinations
Dementia:
1. Gradual memory loss
2. Loss of language skills
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69
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Delirium of dementia reversible?

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Delerium will reverse once underlying cause is treated

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70
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Reversible causes of dementia that need to be ruled out?

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  1. Thyroid
  2. B12
  3. Depression
  4. Normal pressure hydrocephalus
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In which dementia are hallucinations seen?

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Lewy body disorder

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What is psychosis?

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Inability to experience reality normally

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Main signs of psychosis? and criteria?

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At least two symptoms present for > 1 month during a 6 month period and one must be:

  1. Hallucinations
  2. Delusions
  3. Disorganized speech
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What is disorganized speech?

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Speech that doesn’t make logical sense

75
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Non psychotic causes of hallucinations?

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  1. Narcolepsy
  2. Drugs
  3. Alcohol withdrawal
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What are hypnogogic and hypnopompic hallucinations?

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Both seen in narcolepsy

  • Hypnopompic: when you POP out of bed
  • Hypnogogic: when you GO to bed
77
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Normal hallucination in psychotic folks?

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When are olfactory and gustatory hallucinations often seen?

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Epileptic aura

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What are tactile hallucinations associated with?

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Alcohol and drug withdrawal

80
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Negative symptoms mean better or worse prognosis in schizo?

81
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Time requirement for schizophrenia?

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6 months from start of symptoms

- Starts at the prodrome, not at the break

82
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Break out the psychotic disorders by time?

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  1. Schizophrenia: > 6 months
  2. Schizophreniform: 1 - 6 months
  3. Brief psychotic disorder:
83
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What is schizoaffective disorder?

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  • Psychotic disorder leading to mood symptoms
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How to tell schizoaffective vs. MDD with psychosis, vs. Bi polar with psychosis?

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Affective: Mood symptoms must overlap psychosis
- Psychosis can occur independently
**Must be 2 weeks of psychosis sans mood
MDD:
- Psychosis only seen alongside mood symptoms
BP:
- Psychosis only seen alongside mood symptoms

85
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If you are grieving and hallucinating are you psychotic?

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No, falls under normal bereavement

86
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Imaging of schizophrenia?

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Enlarged ventricles

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What is delusional disorder?

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  • Only psychotic symptom is delusions
  • Must be > 1 month
  • Delusion is non bizarre: could happen but not true
  • Function normally not lost
88
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What are the two down disorders?

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  1. MDD

2. Dysthymia

89
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Why are the up and down disorders?

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  1. BP1
  2. BP2
  3. Cyclothymia
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What is a manic episode?

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Abnormally elevated OR irritable mood + 3 of "DIG FAST"
Distractibility 
Irresponsibility 
Grandiosity 
Flight of ideas
Agitation / activity 
Sleeplessness
Talkative
91
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Signs to distinguish stimulant OD from mania?

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  1. Tachycardia
  2. Dilated pupils
    * **Urine toxicology for definitive diagnosis
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What is a hypomanic episode?

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Like a manic episode but:

  1. Does not significantly impair function
    - Can actually increase
  2. There is no psychosis
93
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Definition of Bipolar I and II?

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Bipolar I: 1 episode mania and usually MDD as well

Bipolar II: 1 episode HYPOmania + 1 episode MDD

94
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Bipolar I or II considered more severe and why?

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II - mania is milder but the lows tend to be much lower and cycle faster
***Suicide risk is also higher

95
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What happen in BP patient given only antidepressant without mood stabilizer?

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Catapult them into mania

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What is cyclothymia?

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  • Mood episodes are not distinct, constantly cycling but at a milder level
  • Must occur for AT LEAST 2 years
  • Subclinical depression and hypomania
  • **
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2 mood that can define MDD? Time criteria?

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At least two weeks of either:

  1. Depressed mood
  2. Anhedonia: can’t find pleasure in normal things
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What is the MDD pneumonic?

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“SIG E CAPS”
Sleep changes
Interest decrease
Guilt

Energy decrease

Concentration decrease
Appetite changes
Psychomotor changes
Suicidality 
\++++Depressed mood counts as no as well
99
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Diagnostic criteria for MDD?

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  • 5 SIGECAPS
  • > 2 weeks
  • 1 Lifetime episode with no history of mania
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What is dysthymia?

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  • Milder form of MDD
  • > 2 years symptoms
  • Don’t meet all 5 MMD criteria
  • No periods > 2 months normal
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Signs of melancholic depression?

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  1. Depressed mood AND anhedonia
  2. Sleep loss
  3. Weight loss
  4. Increased REM
  5. Nighttime awakeness
  6. Wake early in morning
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What is atypical depression?

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  1. Depressed mood can be fixed by positive events
  2. Eat more
  3. Sleep more
  4. Sensitive to rejection
103
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Best drug for atypical depression?

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Normal postpartum blues descriptors?

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  1. Not suicidal

2.

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What is normal bereavement?

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Most common means of suicide?

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Panic disorder diagnostics?

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  1. 1 panic attack

2. 1 month preoccupation with attack

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How to treat panic attack?

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What is specific phobia?

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Fear of specific:

  1. Thing
  2. Situation (social anxiety)
  3. Environment (agoraphobia)
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What is agoraphobia?

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Excessive fear of uncontrollable environments:

  1. Open spaces
  2. Public transport
  3. Crowded spaces
111
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What phobia associated with panic attacks?

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Agoraphobia

112
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Treatment for specific phobia?

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Systematic desensitization

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What is generalized anxiety disorder?

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  1. > 6 months anxiety
  2. Not related to specific trigger
  3. Psychosomatic symptoms
114
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What drug has side effect of seizures?

115
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Time criteria for adjustment disorder?

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Ends within 6 months of removal of stressor

- Could persist indefinitely if not removed

116
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What is a compulsion?

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Repetitive action that temporarily relieves anxiety of obsession

117
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Difference between OCD and obsessive compulsive personality disorder (OCPD)?

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  • OCD, you know your obsession are nuts (ego dystonic)

- OCPD you do not (ego syntonic)

118
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Which childhood disorder is OCD associated with?

119
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What is body dysmorphic disorder?

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Obsession with perceived physical imperfection

- Look for lots of plastic surgery

120
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Who is looking for lots of plastic surgery?

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Body dysmorphic disorder

121
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Trauma criteria for PTSD?

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  1. Death
  2. Serious injury
  3. Sexual violence
    * Must have experienced or witnessed this
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Symptoms of PTSD?

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  1. Flashbacks
  2. Nightmares
  3. Avoidance of stimuli
  4. Hypervigilance
    * **Must last at least one month
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What is acute stress disorder?

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Symptoms of PTSD but last

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What is malingering?

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Lying for gain to medical professional: get out of work or for narcotics for example

125
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What is factitious disorder?

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Faking medical condition for no real reason other than craving the attention or something

126
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What is munchausen by proxy?

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Caregiver forces child or elderly to act sick because they receive gratification for some sick reason

127
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What are somatoform disorder? 2 types?

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Being obsessed with thinking you are sick when you really are not

  1. Illness anxiety: FEAR of serious illness
    - Have stomach but but think they have AAA
  2. Somatic symptom disorder: multiple unexplained complaints
    - Psychogenic problem is causing the pain
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What is conversion disorder?

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Stressor leading to specific sensory or motor loss and person doesn’t seem to really care

129
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How to treat somatic symptoms?

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  1. Dont tell them they aren’t really sick

2. Schedule regular follow ups

130
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What do clusters A B and C share characteristics with?

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“Weird, Wild, worried”
A: psychotic
B: Bipolar
C: anxiety

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What is paranoid PD?

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  • Everyone out to get you
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Schizoid PD?

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“Remember the ‘D’ for distant”

  • Blunted emotional range
  • Not interested in social interactions
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Schizotypal PD?

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  • Unusual beliefs and magical thinking
  • Eccentric dress and appearance
  • Socially awkward
134
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What is schizoaffective?

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Schizophrenia with the personality issues of PDs as well

135
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Borderline PD?

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  • Emotionally very high and low
  • Unstable relationships
  • Use splitting often
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Histrionic PD?

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  • Outgoing

- Sexually provocative

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Narcissistic PD?

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  • Grandiosity
  • React horribly to criticism
  • Lack of empathy
  • Arrogant
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Antisocial PD

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  • Conduct disorder in person > 18 yo
  • Lack of empathy
  • Arrogant
  • Criminal behavior
139
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Which cluster B responds best to treatment?

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Borderline to dialectic behavioral therapy

140
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Avoidant PD?

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  • Avoid social interaction
  • Low self esteem / inadequacy
  • Hypersensitive to rejection
141
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Rule for diagnosing eating disorder?

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  1. If underweight = anorexia, BMI
142
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Definition of purging?

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  1. Vomit
  2. Exercise
  3. Laxatives
  4. Diuretics
143
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What is binge eating disorder?

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  • Binge phase of bulimia with not purge
  • No preoccupation with weight
  • Obesity and type II rampant
144
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Transgender, transexual, Transvestite?

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Genger: want to live as no biologic gender
Sexual: Same as above + Change body
Vest: sexual pleasure from dressing as other genger

145
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Who do antipsychotics cause ED?

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Suppress DE, disinhibiting prolactin which suppresses the axis

146
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When do nightmares occur?

147
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When to sleep terrors occur?

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Slow wave

- Thrash and scream but have no memory

148
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What is the issue with narcolepsy?

A

Orexin AKA hypocretin

149
Q

What is cataplexy?

A

Dropping to ground when feel strong emotion, indicative of narcolepsy

150
Q

Depressant withdrawal symptoms?

A
  1. Anxiety
  2. WIthdrawal
  3. Tremmor
151
Q

Stimulant withdrawal symptoms?

A
  1. Depression
  2. Lethargy
  3. Headache
  4. Weight gain
152
Q

When are goosebumps, yawning, and pinpoint pupils seen?

A

Opioids withdrawal

153
Q

Depressant with highest risk of repiratory collapse?

A

Barbiturates

154
Q

Treatment of opioid OD?

A

Naloxone: mu antagonist

155
Q

Drugs leading to dilated pupils?

A
  1. Amphetamines

2. Cocaine

156
Q

Treatment of Cocaine withdrawal?

A
  1. Benzo
  2. A1 blocker for coronary vasoconstriction
    * ***Never use BB, will drop CO too low when cardiac vessels are already over dilated
157
Q

Non nicotinic agents approved for smoking cessation?

A
  1. Bupropion

2. Varenicline

158
Q

What is good about LSD?

A
  1. No withdrawal

2. Is not habit forming

159
Q

What is phencyclidine?

160
Q

What does PCP intoxication look like?

A
  1. BELLIGERENCE
  2. Stimulated
  3. Analgesia
  4. Hallucinations
    5 NYSTAGMUS
161
Q

Signs of wernicke’s encephalopathy?

A

From Thiamin deficiency / booze:
1. Ophthalmoplegie
2. Ataxia
3 Confusion

162
Q

What is B1?

163
Q

First line for depression?

164
Q

Goal of stimulus control therapy for insomnia?

A

Disassociate bedroom with stimulating activities:

  1. Reading
  2. TV
  3. Eating
  4. Fear of sleep
165
Q

What is priapism? What drug can cause it?

A

Persistent erection > 4 hours

- Can be caused by TRAZODONE

166
Q

Time place and age requirement for ADHD?

A
  • Must occur before 12 yo

- Must occur in > 1 setting

167
Q

What causes drug induced parkinsonism?

A

Blockage of D2 receptors

168
Q

Drugs good to treat drug induced parkinsonism?

A
  1. Benzotropine

2. Trihexyphenidyl

169
Q

What is gender?

A

Innate feeling of being male or female developed by age 3 -4

170
Q

Best treatment for specific phobia?

A

Behavioral therapy

171
Q

Does OCD involve compulsions?

172
Q

Who displays patterns of unstable relationships beginning in childhood and leading to adulthood?

A

Borderline personality disorder

173
Q

Treatment for bulimia nervosa?

A

SSRIs: fluoxetine is #1

174
Q

Benzons good in liver failure?

A
  1. Lorazepam
  2. Oxazepam
  3. Temazepam
175
Q

Mechanism of PCP?

A

NMDA antagonism

176
Q

Is suppression or repression a conscious decision?

A

Suppression, it is “what you are SUPPOSED to do”

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