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What are the 5 types of thought alienation?

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thought insertion, withdrawal, broadcase, echo and block

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What is the difference between perceptual symtpoms?

illusion, hallucination, delusion, delusional perception

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illusion = misperception of stimulus
hallucination = sensory experience in absence of stimulus
delusion = fixed idea, can’t be shaken
delusion perception = delusion formed from an actual perception

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What is akathisia?

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the sensation of feeling restless

- often side effects of antipsychotics

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What is somatic passivity?

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The belief someone is doing something to you

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What is incongruity of affect?

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When a person’s face doesn’t match the emotion

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What is conversion and belle indifference?

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Conversion is developing a physical deficit in response to trauma
Belle indifference is conversion but the patient accepts it

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Name some symptoms of EUPD

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manipulative, unstable moods, splitting and dissociate, struggle with identity, background of poor attachement/abuse, unstable relationships

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What is the threshold for admission for an eating disorder?

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BMI = 13

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Name 2 typical and 2 atypical antipsychotics

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Typical - haloperidol, chlorpromazine

Atypical - olanzapine, quetiapine, clozapine, risperidone

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What is the treatment for PTSD?

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< 4 weeks = watch and wait
4 weeks - 3months = trauma focused therapy
Psycholgical - EMDR, trauma focused CBT
Pharmalogical - SSRI, MOAI, amitriptyline
mirtazapine
sleeping tablets

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What are the diagnostic criteria for PTSD?

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Trauma, happened <6 months ago, intrusive memories

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What is the treatment for OCD?

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Psychological - CBT with ERP (exposure and response prevention)
Pharmacological - SSRI (e.g. sertraline, paroxetine)

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Name the 6 types of schizophrenia

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Hebephrenic/disoragnised -thought disorder and flat affect
Paranoid - hallucinations and delusions (no though disorder)
Catatonic - immobile/agitated/purposeless movement
Undifferentiated
Residual - chronic negative symptoms
Simple - insidous and progressive negative symptoms, no history of psychotic symptoms

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What is the difference between delusional disorder and schizophrenia?

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DD - delusions are stable over time, main symptom is delusions
S - get a decrease in functioning, delusions and hallucinations

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What is clozapine and when it is used?

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Atypical antipsychotic (D1 and D2 antagonist) - used in resistant schizophrenia 
- need FBC before starting and every 4 weeks
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What are the first and second rank symptoms of schizophrenia?

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First - thought alienation, 3rd party auditory hallucinations, delusional perseption, passivity phenomona
Second - delusions, 2nd party auditory hallucinations, thought disorder, negative symptoms, catatonic behaviour

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What is needed to diagnose bipolar?

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1 episode of depression and mania (needs to last at least a week)
>1 mood change with at least one being mania (repeated episodes of mania or hypomania are also bipolar)

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How do you treat bipolar?

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Acute - lorazepam/diazepam 
lithium 
valporate (anticonvulsant)
carbamazepine 
lamotrigine 
olanzapine

CBT

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Which medications would you use to treat bipolar?

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Lithium - decreases cAMP, therefore increases monoamines

carbamazepine, lamotrigeine

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What is dysthmyia?

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mild depression

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What is depressive stupor?

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being sleepy a lot

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What is cyclothmyia?

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mild bipolar

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What are some ‘thoughts’ symptoms?

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thought insertion, withdrawal, broadcast, echo, block 
Concrete thinking (ASD, psychosis)
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What are some ‘expression’ symptoms?

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loosening of association (lack of logical asssociation between thoughts = incoherent thoughts)
Circumstantiality (talking at length around a subject but returns)
Perseveration (repetition of a word - organic/frontal)
Tangential (does not return to the topic)
Confabulation (give a false account to fill a memory gap - Korsakov’s)

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What are some 'passivity' symptoms?
Somantic passivity Made acts, feelings, drives Catatonia Stupor (loss of activity with no response to stumuli) Psychomotor retardation (slowing of thoughts and movements)
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What are some 'mood' symptoms?
``` flight of ideas neologists (use of made up words) pressure of speech poverty of speech anhedonia flattening of affect (reduced emotional expression) incongruity of affect (mismatch) obsession (unwanted recurrent thought) compulsion (irrestibile urge to behave in a certain way) ```
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What is depersonalisation and derealisation?
Depersonalisation - thoughts and feelings do not seem to belong to oneself Derealisation - feeling as if you are looking at yourself from outside
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What is sterotypy?
persistent repetition of a behaviour without cause
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What are the positive symptoms of psychosis?
delusions, disorder thoughts/speech, hallucinations | - these respond well to meds
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What are the negative symptoms of psychosis?
flat/blunted affect, poverty of speech, lack of motivation, poor ability to function - respond less well to meds
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Other than schizophrenia, what are other types of psychosis?
acute and transient psychosis, persistent delusional disorder, schizoaffective disorder, puerperal psychosis, organic psychosis
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How would you treat psychosis?
Antipsychotics family therapy, CBT family intervention/carer support, employment/activity/education, support with engagment/benefits
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How do you treat all psychiatric conditions?
Biopsychosocial model
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What are the 5 types of antidepressants ?- give 2 examples and SE for each
*Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors - fluoxetine, sertraline, citalopram SE: abdominal pain, suicide, sexual dysfunction *Tricyclic antidepressants - amitriptyline, trazadone SE: sedation, anticholinergic, arrhythmias *Serotonin noradrenaline reuptake inhibitors - venlafaxine, duloxetine SE: suicidality, serotonin syndrome, sexual dysfunction *Tetracyclic - mirtazapine SE: sedation, weight gain *Monoamine oxidase inhibitors - phemalzine, moclobemide SE: hypertensive crises related to tyrosine in cheese, red wine etc.
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How would you treat ADHD?
methylphenidate (ritalin) | atomoxetine
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What are primary care psychological interventions?
counselling, psychoeducation, CT
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What is secondary care psychological interventions?
dialectic behavioural therapy, psychoanalytic psychotherpay, group therapy, family therapy
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Which personality disorders are under cluster A?
Odd or eccentric Paranoid - suspicion and mistrust Schizoid - lack of interest, detached, apathy, restricted emotional expression Schizotypal - extreme disconfort with social interaction, distorted cofnition and perceptions
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Which personality disorders come under cluster B?
Dramatic, emotional, erratic Antisocial - lack of empathy, increased self-image, manipulative, impulsive, aggressive Borderline Histronic - attention seeking, excessive emotions Narcissistic - grandiosity, need for admiration, lack of empathy
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Which personality disorders come under cluster C?
Avoidant - social inhibition and inadequacy, extreme sensitivity to negative evaluation Dependant - psychological need to be cared for by others Obsessive-compulsive/anakastic - conformity to rules, perfectionism, exlusion of leisure and friendship
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Which treatment is the least effective to protect against mania?
lamotrigeine is the least effective to protect against mania
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What are some SE of antipsychotics?
amennorhea, impaired glucose tolerance, dyslipdaemia, increased cerebrovascular incidence
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What are the types of couple therapy?
couple couselling | sensate focus
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What is a nihlistic delusion/cotard syndrome/somatic delusion
nihilistic - delusion of being dead Cotard - walking corpse Somatic delusion - relating to bodily functions
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What is a delusion of reference?
strongly held belief of reference e.g. believing they caused an earthquake they saw on the news
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What is capgas syndrome?
Believing spouse is imposter
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What is fregoli syndrome?
Believing someone is in disguise
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What are risk factors for anxiety?
Being aged 35-54 Being divorced or seperated Living alone or as a lone parent
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How would you medically treat anxiety?
SSRI - sertraline, fluoxetine SNRI - venlafaxine, duloxetine pregabalin Benzodiazapines
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What are extracampine hallucinations?
Feeling of a human prescence
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What are functional hallucinations?
triggered by a stimulus in the same modality
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What are hypnagognic and hypogognic hallucinations?
hypnagognic - as falling asleep | hypogognic - as waking up
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What is the risk of schizophrenia in idential twins if one is diagnosed?
1 in 2
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How do you assess for postnatal depression?
Edingburgh scale
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How to you monitor when a person is on clozapine?
FBC - before starting and every 4 weeks electrocardiogram and ask about signs of heart failure - monitoring for myocarditis and cardiomyopathy SE: amenorrhea, constipation, erectile dysfunction
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What are complications of transmale hormone therapies?
``` polycythemia (high RBC), elevated LFT weight gain, acne. sleep apnea male pattern baldness worsening of underlying manic or psychotic high BP, DM, CVD ```
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What are the complications of transfemale hormone therapies?
estrogen-sensitive cancer (e.g. breast cancer), thrombosis, embolism, macroprolactinoma
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What is one symptom of depression especially common in older people?
somatization
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What are different types of delusions?
polythematic or monothematic primary (no proceding reasons, likely to be schizophrenia) secondary (e.g. depressed person feeling worthless) mood congruent or incongruent
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What are some common delusions in psychotic depression?
nihilistic delusion
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What is a personality disorder?
acquired ingrained personality type leads to maladaptive patterns of behaviour resulting in functional impairment in relationship or society
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What is conduct disorder?
antisocial behaviour in childhood/adolescence 1. long lasting 2. violates others rights 3. against expected norms 4. distrupts own or family's life
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What are the transtheoretical apprach and core model in eating disorders?
transdiagnostic = don't fit diagnosis so focus on symptoms and attitudes (faiburn et al 2003) core model = low self-esteem and perfectionism leads to need for control (slade 1982)
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What are the types of eating disorders?
anorexia nervosa (BMI <17.5, restricting and purging) Bulimia nervosa (1/week for 3 months) Binge eating disorder (1/week for 3 months) other specficied feeding and eating disorders (atypical anorexia, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating and purging disorder, night eating syndrome)
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How would you treat eating disorders?
CBT | family therapy in adolescents

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