Psychotic disorders

Question 1

What medications are used to treat neuroleptic malignant syndrome?

Answer 1

Dantrolene followed by bromocriptine, although amantadine is sometimes used.

Question 2

What is Capgras syndrome?

Answer 2

The delusion that familiar people have been replaced by imposters (type of unspecified delusion)

Question 3

What percentage of terminally ill patients will experience delirium?

Answer 3

90%

Question 4

What is autoscopic psychosis?

Answer 4

The visual hallucination of a transparent phantom of one’s own body

Question 5

What is Cotard syndrome?

Answer 5

The false perception of having lost everything, including money, status, strength, health, and internal organs

Question 6

What is Folie à deux?

Answer 6

A shared psychotic disorder in which one person develops psychotic symptoms similar to the ones a long term partner has been experiencing

Question 7

What is the most common abnormal finding on MRI of the brains of schizophrenic patients?

Answer 7

Loss of cortical tissue volume and enlargement of the ventricles, with lateral ventricle enlargement being the most common finding