Psychiatry Flashcards
Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder DSM-5
A. Persistent difficulties in social use of verbal and nonverbal communication - must have difficulties in all of following areas:
- In social communication (greeting people)
- Changing communication to match context (Using overly formal language)
- Following rules of conversation and storytelling
- Understanding what is not explicitly stated (making inferences)
B. The deficits result in functional limitations in effective communication, social participation
C. The onset of sx is in early developmental period but may not become fully manifest until social communication demands exceed limited capacities
Rare among children < 4
Autism spectrum disorder - DSM 5
A. Persistent deficits in social communication as manifested by deficits in:
1- Social-emotional reciprocity
2- Nonverbal communication
3- Developing, maintaining, & understanding relationships
B. Restricted, repetitive, patterns of behavior, interests, or activities as manifested by >2 following: [1] stereotyped or repetitive motor movements, [2] inflexible, [3] Restricted fixated interests [4] Hyper or hypoactive to sensory inputs
C. Sx must be present in early developmental period
D. Sx cause clinically significant impairment in social, occupational, or other areas of functioning
E. Rule out other disorders - social pragmatic communication disorder, ADD/ADHD
Three presentations of ADHD
[1] Inattention
[2] Hyperactivity and impulsivity
[3] Combined inattentive & hyperactive-impulse
Sx must be seen in two or more settings (home, work, school, friends, family)
Social (Pragmatic) Communication disorder - obvious deficits noted
Deficits seen in:
Greeting, sharing info
Tone modulation
Talking differently to adult than child
Speaking differently in a classroom than on playground
Avoiding use of overly formal language
Taking turns, inferences, idioms, humor, metaphors, multiple or abstract meanings
DSM 5 Dx ADHD
[1] INATTENTION -
SIX or more of following symptoms for > SIX months:
Fails to pay close attention to details, distracted, loses focus, difficulty with organization, dislikes tasks that require a lot of thinking, loses things, easily distracted, forgetful in ADLs
[2] HYPERACTIVITY AND IMPULSITIVITY
SIX or more of following symptoms for > SIX months:
Fidgets, difficulty remaining seated, child runs about, adults extremely restless, talks excessively, acts as if driven by motor, blurts out answers, interrupts
Note: 17+ YO only need 5 symptoms
Psychotic disorders - three groups
[1] Schizophrenia - recurring illness & prone to repeated psychotic episodes
[2] Psychotic mood disorders - mania and depression - schizoaffective disorder
[3] Psychosis a/w neurological condition (acute metabolic & toxic states = delirium - Addison’s, Cushing, Dementias (lewy body), folic acid deficiency, pancreatitis, stroke, lupus, temporal lobe epilepsy
Delusions: Definition
Fixed beliefs that are not amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence - content may include:
Persecutory: mafia out to get me
Referential: Gestures, comments, environmental cues are directed at oneself (that rock = sign for me from god)
Grandiose: Individual thinks have exceptional abilities, wealth or fame
Nihilistic: World will end
Somatic: Preocupation regarding health or organ function
Delusional jealousy: Spouse unfaithful
Erotomanic: Person of higher status is in love w/ individual
Hallucinations
Perception-like experiences that occur WITHOUT external stimulus - vivid & clear, NOT under voluntary control
Audio, visual, gustatory, tactile, olfactory
DSM 5 Delusional disorder
- The presence of one or more delusions with a duration of 1 month or longer.
- Criterion A for Schizophrenia not met
- Apart from the impact of the delusions or its ramifications, functioning
is not markedly impaired, and behavior is not obviously bizarre odd. - If manic or major depressive episodes - brief relative to the duration of the delusional periods.
- Many Specifiers – subtypes (grandiose, jealous, somatic) – involve situations that can occur in real life.
The DURATION of impairment is important
DSM 5 Dx Brief Psychotic disorder
Presence of one (or more) of the following symptoms. At least one of these must be from 1-2-3
1- Delusions
2 – Hallucinations
3 – Disorganized Speech
4 – Grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior
Duration of an episode of the disturbance is at least 1 day but less than 1 month with eventual full return to premorbid level of functioning
Disturbance not better explained by MDD or BD
Specify stressors, postpartum onset, with catatonia. Note severity
Positive psychotic symptoms
Changes in thoughts and feelings that are “added on” to a persons experience – Examples – paranoia, voices, hallucinations, disorganized speech.
Negative psychotic symptoms
Things “taken away” or reduced – motivation, intensity of emotions, social withdrawal, poverty of thought.
DSM 5 Schizophreniform Disorder
A. Two (or more) of the following, each present for a significant portion of time during a 1 month period ( or less if successfully treated). At least one of these must be 1-2-3. An episode of the disorder lasts at least 1 month but less than 6 months.
- Delusions
- Hallucinations
- Disorganized speech
- Grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior
- Negative symptoms (diminished emotional expression, avolition -decrease in the motivation to initiate and perform self-directed purposeful activities. )
Schizoaffective disorder and depressive or bipolar disorder with psychotic features have been ruled out
DSM 5 Schizophrenia
A. Two (or more) of the following, present > 1/2 time > 1 mo At least one of these must be 1-2 or 3
- Delusions
- Hallucinations
- Disorganized Speech
- Grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior
- Negative symptoms (diminished emotional expression)
B. Disturbance in the level of functioning in one or more major areas, such as work, interpersonal relationships, or self care, is markedly below the level achieved prior to the onset. If in childhood or adolescence there is a failure to achieve expected level of the above.
C. Continuous signs of the disturbance persist for at least 6 months. This 6-month period must include at least 1 month of symptoms (or less if successfully treated) that meet Criterion A (i.e., active-phase symptoms)
Positive Schizophrenic symptoms
Positive symptoms = symptoms inserted
Delusions and impaired thinking
Hallucinations
Confusion and impaired judgment
Severe anxiety, agitation, and emotional dysregulation
Negative Symptoms Schizophrenia
Negative sx = symptoms taken away….
Flat or blunted affect
Poverty of thought
Emptiness and anhedonia
Psychomotor retardation/inactivity
Blunting of perceptions (dull senses – pain)
DSM 5 Schizoaffective disorder
An uninterrupted period of illness during which there is a major mood episode (Major Depressive or Manic) concurrent with the Criterion A of Schizophrenia:
Two (or more) of the following, each present for a significant portion of time during a 1- month period (or less if successfully treated). At least one of these must be 1-2 or 3
- Delusions
- Hallucinations
- Disorganized Speech
- Grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior
- Negative symptoms (diminished emotional expression)
The delusions or hallucinations for 2 or more weeks in the absence of a major mood episode during the lifetime duration of the illness
Schizophrenia + Mood Disorder = Schizoaffective Disorder
Comparing Delusional disorder vs brief psychotic disorder, shizophreniform, schizophrenia and szhioaffective
Delusional disorder – 1 month or more – high functioning
Brief Psychotic Disorder – 1 day but less than 1 month. (positive
symptoms)
Schizophreniform – identical to schizophrenia but duration - at least 1 month but not > 6
Schizophrenia – 1 month of active symptoms and then at least 6 months that symptoms are still persistent (negative symptoms).
Schizoaffective Disorder – Schizophrenia with a persistent mood disorder. Simultaneously meeting the diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia and either bipolar disorder or major depressive disorder.
Schizophrenia vs delusional disorder
In a delusional disorder the content of the delusions involves events that may actually occur to some people in real life. Bizarre delusions (thought broadcasting, control) and hallucinations, disorganized speech, catatonic behavior, negative symptoms in Schizophrenia. Delusional disorder is usually circumscribed and schizophrenia is more global.
Schizophrenia vs Schizoaffective Disorder –
Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder – psychotic symptoms are the same. Schizoaffective Disorder has the mood component.
Schizophrenia vs. Schizophreniform Disorder –
Schizophrenia vs. Schizophreniform Disorder – Primary difference is that schizophrenia lasts for more than six months whereas in schizophreniform disorder the pathology has lasted less than six months.`
Schizophreniform Disorder vs. Brief Psychotic Disorder –
Schizophreniform Disorder vs. Brief Psychotic Disorder – Both refer to psychotic disorder of brief duration. Inclusion criteria are broader for brief psychotic disorder listing any one - delusions, hallucinations and disorganized speech vs two of five features Criterion A of schizophrenia. Schizophreniform disorder lasts a least a month and brief psychotic disorder lasts less than a month.
Symptoms of Mania
Persistent mood of euphoria (elevated or expansive mood)
Grandiosity or elevated self-esteem
Decreased need for sleep
Rapid or pressured speech
Racing thoughts
Distractibility
Increased activity or psychomotor agitation
Behavior that shows expansiveness (lacking restraint in emotional expression), Poor judgment (sexual promiscuity, gambling, buying sprees, giving away money).
Symptoms of Hypomania
Hypomania = milder than mania Increased energy Decreased need for sleep Talkative Elated, mildly grandiose Irritability
Symptoms of depression in BP disorder
Mood of sadness, despair, emptiness
Anhedonia
Low self-esteem
Apathy, low motivation, social withdrawal
Excessive emotional sensitivity
Negative, pessimistic thinking
Irritability and low frustration tolerance
Suicidal thoughts (passive or active)
Excessive guilt
Indecisiveness
Bipolar I vs Bipolar II
Bipolar I – For a diagnosis it is necessary to meet the criteria for a manic episode. Patients often do not see themselves as ill. Ave 18 yrs of age. Can happen throughout life cycle.
Bipolar II – For a diagnosis it is necessary to meet the criteria for a current or past hypomanic episode and the criteria for a current or past major depressive episode. Usually present during a depressed episode. Ave onset mid 20’s. First dx as depression. Depression more enduring and disabling over time.
Cyclothymia
Cyclothymia – hypomania with mild/moderate depression. Can convert to Bipolar I or II. Seen adolescents early adult. Children 6.5 yrs`
DSM 5 Bipoler I Disorder (Mania part)
A. Abnormally and persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable
mood, lasting at least 1 week and present most of the day, nearly everyday.
B. Three (or more) of the following need to be met:
- Inflated self-esteem
- Decreased need for sleep
- More talkative than usual
- Flight of ideas, racing thoughts
- Distractibility
- Inc in goal-directed activity
- Excessive involvement in pleasurable activities that have a high potential for painful consequences
DSM 5 Bipoler I Disorder (Depression part)
Five (or more) of the following symptoms have been present during the same 2-week period and represent a change from previous functioning; at least one of the symptoms is either (1) depressed mood or (2) anhedonia
- Depressed mood
- Anhedonia
- Significant weight loss
- Insomnia or hypersomnia
- Psychomotor agitation or retardation
- Fatigue
- Feelings of worthlessness, excessive guilt
- Can’t concentrate
- Recurrent thoughts of death
MDD DSM 5
A. Five (or more) of the following symptoms have been present during the same 2-week period and represent a change from previous functioning; at least one of the symptoms is either (1) depressed mood or (2) loss of interest or pleasure.
- Depressed mood
- Anhedonia
- Weight loss or gain
- Insomnia or hypersomnia
- Psychomotor agitation or retardation
- Fatigue
- Feelings of worthlessness, excessive guilt
- Can’t concentrate
- Recurrent thoughts of death
Persistent depressive disorder (Dysthymia)
A. Depressed mood for most of the day, for more days than not, as indicated by either subjective account or observation by others, for at least 2 years.
B. Presence, while depressed, of two (or more) of the following:
- Poor appetite or overeating
- Insomnia or hypersomnia.
- Low energy or fatigue.
- Low self esteem.
- Poor concentration or difficulty making decisions.
- Feeling of hopelessness.
C. During a 2-year period (1 year child/adolescents) of the disturbance the individual had never been without symptoms in Criteria A and B for more than 2 months at a time.
Note - Children and adolescents, mood can be irritable and duration must be at least 1 year.