Psych revision session Flashcards
What do you need to consider in management
Bio
Psycho
Social
Illusion
Misperception of a real stimuli
Hallucination
Perception in the absense of an external stimulus
2nd person hallucinations- who gets them
Depression
Personality disorder
3rd person hallucinations- who gets them
Schizophrenia (first rank symptom)
Visual hallucination who gets them
Lewy body dementia/ organic
Over valued idea
Belief sustained beyond logic/reason but held with less rigidity than a delusion
Delusion
False belief that is firmly maintained in spite of invontrovertible evidence to the contrary
Delusional perception
Delusional belief resulting from a real perception (1st rank symptom)
What do you call first rank symptoms
Schneiderian first rank symptoms
Thought insertion
Thoughts have been exerted by an external agency (1st rank)
Thought withdrawal
Thoughts have been stolen by an external agency (1st rank)
Thought broadcast
Thoughts are being broadcast so that they can be heard by others (1st rank)
Thought echo
Form of auditory hallucination where the person hears their thoughts spoken aloud (1st rank)
Thought block
Sudden interruption in the train of throught, leaving a blank
Concrete thinking
Lack of abstract thinking (asd/psychosis)
Loosening of association
Lack of logical association between thoughts leads to incoherent speech
Circumstantiality
Talking at great length around the subject but returns to the topic
Perseveration
Repetition of a word (usually associated with organic/ frontal lobe/ wernickes encephalopathy- vit b1)
Tangential
Does not return to the topic
Confabulation
Giving a false account to fill a memory gap (not deliberate)- korsakov psychosis
Somatic passivitiy
Delusional belief that patient is a passive recipient of bodily sensation imposed from outside forces (1st rank)
Made acts, feelings and drives
The experience being carried out by the patient is considered as alien/ imposed (1st rank)
Psychomotor retardation
Slowing of thoughts and movements
Stupor
Loss of activity with no response to stimuli, may mark a progression of motor retardation
Catatonia
Significantly excited or inhibited motor activity (with waxy flexibility or posturing)
Flight of ideas
Rapid skipping from one thought to a distantly related ideas
Neologisms
Use of novel or made up words
Pressure of speech
Rapid rate of delivery may be associated with rhymes and puns
Poverty of speech
Reduced amount
Anhedonia
Reduced enjoyment from normally pleasurable activity
Flattening of affect
Reduced range of emotional expression
Incongruity of affect
Mismatch between emotional expression and content
Obsession
an unwanted recurrent thought (experienced as intrusive)
Compulsion
An irresistible urge to behave in a certain way
Belle indifference
An apparent lack of concern at symptoms/ disability
Depersonalisation
Thoughts and feelings do not seem to belong to oneself
Derealisation
Feeling as if you are looking at yourself from the outside
Sterotypy
Persistent repetition of a movement, not goal directed (problem is the nature of movement)
Mannerism
Repetition of a seemingly purposeful gesture of language or behaviour (problem is frequency)
Differential diagnosis of psychosis
Schizophrenia, drug induced psychosis, depressive psychosis, organic pscyhosis
Who would treat first episode of psychosis
Early intervention service
1st episode psychosis team
Home treatment team
Capgras syndrome
Imposter syndrome
TV is referring to him
Delusional of reference
Postive psychosis symtoms
Delusions
Disordered thought and speech
Hallucinations
Respond well to medication
Negative psychosis symptoms
Flat affect Poverty of speech Lack of motivation Poor ability to function Respond less well to medications
Residual schizophrenia
Chronic negative symptoms
Simple schizophrenia
Insidious and progressive negative symptoms with no history of psychotic symptoms
1st rank symptoms
Auditory hallucinations (3rd)
Passivity experiences
Thought alienation
Delusional perception
Acute and tranisent psychosis
Short lived
2 week long, 3 month recovery
no treatment
Persistent delusional disorder
Long standing delusion only without hallucination
Old people
Food, smells, contamination
Sensory problems
Schizoaffective disorder
Both affective and schizophrenic symptoms are present together
Pueperal psychosis
Within days or weeks of childbirth