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Psychiatry Flashcards

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How would you treat OCD?

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Cognitive behaviour therapy. Clomipramine.

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How is mental illness different to physical illness?

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Diagnose by symptom cluster not pathology. Uncertainty about diagnosis.

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Anxiety symptoms?

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Feeling of fear. Palpitations. Sweating.

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Taking 5 hours to wash hair and scrubbing hands with bleach up to 30 times a day are an example of what?

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Compulsions.

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OCD symptoms?

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Ego-dystonic thoughts
Repetitive, circular ruminations
Compulsions

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Core symptoms of depression?

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Low mood, loss of energy, loss of enjoyment.

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Other symptoms of depression?

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Weight loss, poor sleep, feeling of guilt and suicidal ideation.

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Depression treatment?

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Antidepressants, cognitive behavioural therapy, social prescribing of exercise.

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Mania symptoms?

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Elated mood, Over-energized, Little need for sleep, Over-spending.

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Schizophrenia symptoms?

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Hallucination, delusion, Abnormal Behaviour such as disorganised behavior such as wandering aimlessly, mumbling or laughing to self.

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What is delusion?

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Fixed false beliefs not shared by others in the person’s culture and that are firmly held even when there is evidence to the contrary.

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Schizophrenia treatment?

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Antipsychotics
Psychological therapies
Family therapy
Arts therapies

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Example of depressogenic stressors?

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Bullying and chronic illness.

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What is negative reinforcement?

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Encouragement of certain behaviors by removing a negative stimuli.

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What can habit formation lead to?

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Compulsion.

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Examples of what can result in negative reinforcement?

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Substance use. Disordered eating.

17
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What leads to addiction?

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Repeated negative reinforcement, in the context of persistent states of suffering.

18
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How do substances cause addiction?

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Direct action on neural circuits for motivation and reward-seeking.

19
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What category are people who hear voices/ have disorganised behaviour/ thought disorder.

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Madness.

20
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Types of psychosis?

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Schizophrenia, Mania.

21
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Psychosis key symptoms

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Hallucinations,
Delusions
Thought Disorder

22
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What is psychosis?

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Group of pathologies which disrupt the process of perceiving and interpreting reality.

23
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Schizophrenia positive symptoms?

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Hallucinations
Delusions

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Schizophrenia negative symptoms?

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Anhedonia
Apathy

25
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Schizophrenia disorganised symptoms?

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Thought disorder
Disorganised speech

26
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What is see on a PET scan of a schizophrenia patient?

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Excess of striatal dopamine

27
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What increases your risk of developing schizophrenia by a lot?

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If both parents have schizophrenia. Strong genetic component.

28
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What is working memory?

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You use this to store information for short periods and contextualise the present moment.

29
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What other risk factors for psychosis?

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Neurodevelopmental (prematurity, hypoxia and infection), life stressors, recreational drug use.

30
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Psychosis treatment?

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Antipsychotics, CBT for Psychosis, Social support.

31
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Class of antipsychotics?

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Antidopaminergic.

32
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How is social support provided for psychosis?

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Housing, benefits
Support with budgeting /employment.

33
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What increases by a lot in schizophrenia patients?

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Violence.

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Non-suicidal self-injury typically occurs in the context of?

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Low self-worth and persistent distress. injury reduces distress.

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What results in negative reinforcement in OCD?

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Distress reducing mechanisms like washing, counting that give temporary relief from intrusive thoughts.

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Symptoms of eating disorder?

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Restriction of diet
Episodes of laxative abuse
Excessive exercise

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