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Psychiatric Disorders Flashcards

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The term embraces the totality of a person’s mental attributes, observable behavior and reportable experience.

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Personality

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An ensemble of poorly regulated emotions, impulsive and aggressive actions and repeated self-injury form the core aspects of this personality disorder.

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Borderline personality disorder

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At what age do we suspect any mental illness that appears for the first time to be either depression or dementia?

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> 40 years

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4
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Most common symptom of anxiety attacks

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palpitations (97%)

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Refers to the fear of being in places or situations from which escape might be difficult or extremely embarrassing

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Agarophobia

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It is defined as imperative and distressing thoughts and impulses that persist in the patient’s mind despite a desire to resist and to get rid of them

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Obsessions

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Amnesia, disturbance of consciousness and hallucinations

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Ganser Syndrome

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This is the preoccupation with bodily functions or physical signs and sensations, leading to the fear or belief of having serious disease

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Hypochondriasis

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Of all the abnormal personality types, this personality is the one most likely to cause trouble in the family and community

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Antisocial Personality Disorder

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The manifestations of sociopathic behavior in children and adults are how many times more frequent in males compared to females?

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5-10x

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Refers to the conscious and deliberate feigning of illness or disability in order to attain a desired goal

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Malingering

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Indicators for hospitalization in anorexia nervosa

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Bradycardia and hypotension

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The satiety center is believed to lie in what part of the hypothalamus?

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ventromedial

feeding center in the lateral hypothalamus

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Refers to any major derangement in mental function in which the individual’s ability to perceive and interact with the environment in impaired.

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Psychosis

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It stands for a complex of disturbed feelings which may include aspects of despair, hopelessness, sense of worthlessness and thoughts of self-harm.

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Depression

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Which part of the brain is associated with greater frequency and severity of depression

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left lateral frontal cortex, basal ganglia

(right hemisphere-mania; psychotic depression with hallucinations-right temporoparietal

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This is the most important concern in patients with mid- and late-life depression

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suicide

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A disorder of mood consisting of prolonged episodes of depression, interrupted by or coexistent with episodes of mania

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Bipolar disease

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SSRI particularly useful in the treatment of depression that is characterized by overeating and hypersomnia

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Fluoxetine

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20
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The most serious risk of MAO inhibitors

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Hypertensive Crisis

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AEDs with mood-stabilizing effect

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Valproate, Gabapentin, Carbamazepine, Lamotrigine and Phenytoin

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In extreme schizophrenia, the patients are mute or assume and maintain imposed postures or remain immobile

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Catalepsy

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23
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Type of hallucinations which are hallmark of schizophrenia

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Auditory hallucinations

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T/F: In the majority of persons complaining of fatigue, one does not find true muscle weakness.

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True

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T/F: Severe fatigue that causes the patient consistently to go to be right after dinner and makes all mental activity effortful should suggest an associated depression.

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True

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Hallmark of anxiety disorder

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Acute attacks

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Defined as imperative and distressing thoughts and impulses that persist in the patient’s mind despite a desire to resist and to get rid of them

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Obsessions

28
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An illness whose symptoms could be induced (and removed) by suggestion.

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Hysteria

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T/F: Hysteria is a disease of women and sociopathy mainly of men.

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True

30
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Preoccupation with bodily functions or physical signs and sensations, leading to the fear and belief of having serious disease

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Hypochodriasis

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Best defined personality disorder and the most likely to cause trouble in the family and the community

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Antisocial

32
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Most frequent psychiatric illness

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Depression

33
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Proportion of PD patients complicated with depressive reaction

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1/4

34
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T/F: Weeks or months of unremitting daily tension-type headaches in the context of a normal examination are highly suggestive of depression at any age.

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True

35
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Most serious risk of MAO inhibitors

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Occurrence of hypertensive crisis

36
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Type of hallucination which are the hallmark of schizophrenia

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Auditory hallucinations

37
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Schizophrenia subtype which tends to occur at an earlier age than the other varieties

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Disorganized (hebephrenic)

38
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Most frequent early symptoms of corticosteroid psychosis

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Depression and insomnia

39
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Dopaminergic pathway associated with negative symptoms of schizophrenia

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Mesocortical

40
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Third generation atypical neuroleptic that partially blocks the dopamine receptors

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Aripiprazole

41
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T/F: When a patient meets the criteria for more than one personality disorder, clinicians should diagnose each.

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True

42
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This disorder has been called ambulatory schizophrenia

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Borderline personality disorder

43
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Personality disorder that may be a harbinger of schizophrenia

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Paranoid personality disorder

44
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This personality disorder is frequently diagnosed in females with fragile X syndrome.

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Schizotypal personality disorder

45
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Prevalence of tobacco withdrawal on those smokers who try to quit.

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About 50%

46
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It is the primary adverse effect of cigarette smoking

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Death

47
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Main objective of treatment in severe alcohol intoxication

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Prevention of respiratory depression

48
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The importance of physical appearance is central to this disorder

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Narcissistic personality disorder

49
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Up to how many % of schizophrenics commit suicide within first 10 years of their illness

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10%

50
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Trinucleotide repeats seen in schizophrenia

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CAG/CTG on chromosome 17 and 18

51
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Dopamine receptor especially important to the positive symptoms of schizophrenia

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D2 receptors

52
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Most potent SSRI

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Paroxetine

53
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Good prognostic factors associated with schizophrenia

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Late onset, obvious precipitating factors, acute onset, good premorbid social/sexual/work history, mood disorder symptoms, married, family history of mood disorders, good family support, positive symptoms

54
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Schizophrenia subtype with the best course and outcome

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Paranoid

55
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Schizophrenia subtype with the best course and outcome

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Paranoid

56
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T/F: Jealous delusions are seen more frequently in men and erotomanic delusions are more frequently in females.

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True

57
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T/F: Obsessive-compulsive disorder is ego-syntonic.

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False (it is ego-dystonic)

58
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T/F: Bupoprion is contraindicated for use in eating disorders.

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True

59
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The average time for relapse in stable patients with schizophrenia who discontinue their medication

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6 months

60
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Atypical antipsychotic drug causing the least weight gain

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Ziprasidone

61
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It is the only atypical antipsychotic drug indicated to reduce the risk of suicide

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Clozapine

62
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It is the most important unwanted effect of antipsychotic drugs

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Tardive dyskinesia

63
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How long should fluoxetine be discontinued before a MAOI can be administered to mitigate the risk of serotonin syndrome?

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4 weeks

64
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Least sedating of all tricyclic antidepressant

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Protriptyline

65
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The most important difference of fear from anxiety

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Cause is known in fear

66
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T/F: Extrapyramidal side effects and tardive dyskinesia are virtually absent with the use of clozapine

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True

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