Psychiatry Flashcards
De Clarambault’s syndrome?
Delusion of being loved, generally by someone of superior social status
Fregoli syndrome?
A Familiar person ie wife, falsely identiFied in strangers
Capgras syndrome?
Familiar person is replACed by a stranger who is their exact double
Othello syndrome?
Delusion of infidelity of partner ‘liking OTHEr person’
Section 2?
Admission for assessment for up to 28 days
2=28
Section 3?
Admission for TREAtment for up to 6 months
Section 4?
72 hour assessment order
5(2)?
Dr detaining power - 72 hours (voluntary patient in hospital only)
5(4)?
Nurse detaining power - 6 hours (for patients voluntarily in hospital)
Section 135?
Police can break into property to move person to place of safety
Section 136?
Someone in public place can be taken by police to place of safety
What is facticious disorder?
Patient Falsifies medical or psychiatric symptoms ie interfering with wound/causing infection
Definition of Parkinsonism? (Symptoms)
Bradykinesia
Plus one of:
-tremor
-rigidity and/or postural instability
If low mood symptoms with minimal effect on function within 10 days of giving birth, what is diagnosis?
‘Baby blues’
Fridreich’s ataxia
-what is it?
-complications?
Autosomal recessive inherited degenerative disease that primarily affects nervous system and heart
-Cardiomyopathy
-Diabetes
