Psychotic Disorders (Lauren ๐ญ) Flashcards
What is psychosis?
Loss of contact with reality ๐
What are the Positive symptoms of psychosis?
Delusions
Hallucinations
Disorganized thoughts and speech
Disorganized or catatonic behavior
What is this:
โFixed false beliefs, despite disproving evidenceโ
Delusions
What is the difference between bizarre and non-bizarre delusions?
Non-bizarre delusions are technically plausible. (But are obviously not true)
Ex: The Chandler Police, the Phoenix Police and the Tucson Police are all trying to catch me
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What are paranoid delusions?
โPeople are following meโ๐ถ
What are persecutory delusions?
โEveryone is against meโ ๐ด
Conspired against, cheated, spied on, followed, poisoned, etc
What are grandiose delusions?
Iโm gorgeous and super intelligent, thatโs why people hate me๐ ๐ป๐ง๐ปโโ๏ธ๐คณ๐ป๐ต
What are Reference Delusions?
โGetting messages in the headlinesโ ๐บ๐ป๐
Ex: someone is putting secret messages in the soap operas just for me to tell me that the world is going to end
What are somatic delusions?
Feeling things in their body๐ท๐
Ex: โI can feel a snake in my belly and worms in my brain and the doctors just keep missing it, I know itโs thereโ
What is this:
โSensory perceptions in absence of a stimulusโ
hallucinations๐งฟ
What is important to ask a patient if they have auditory hallucinations?
What do the voices say?๐ฃ
Do they tell you to hurt yourself or others?๐ช
Visual hallucinations are usually:
Shadows๐ด
People appearing in mirrors or windows ๐ฟ
Tactile hallucinations are usually caused by _________
Substance abuse๐ฌ
What is a very important possible cause of olfactory hallucinations?
Brain tumor๐ง
If someone says they can taste poison in their food, what kind of hallucination is that?
Gustatory hallucination๐
What are some examples of disorganized speech?
Derailment, tangentiality
Incoherence, word salad
Neologisms
Echolalia
Blocking, paucity
What is tangential speech?
They kind of try to answer the question but they never actually get to it
What kind of speech is this:
Words are not related to each other
Word salad๐ฅ
What is a neologism?
Creating new words
Ex: Brangelina, chillax, metrosexual
What is echolalia?
Repeating part of what you say back to them/
You: How are you doing today, joe?
Joe: how are you doing today joe
What would this be an example of:
The patient hears so many voices that when you talk to him, it takes him a moment to pick out what you said to him and answers you after a long pause
Paucity
What are some examples of disorganized or catatonic behavior?
Activity that is not goal directed (Ex: standing up from chair and reaching for nothing)
Unable to complete simple tasks
Immobility
Waxy flexibility
What is waxy flexibility?
You can move them into whatever position and they will just hold it
true or false:
Negative symptoms alone can be psychotic
False
What are negative symptoms?
Decrease or absence of function
Ex: apathy, anhedonia, asociality, alogia (reduced speech)
Which is more effective against negative symptoms: Typical or atypical antipsychotics
Atypical
But negative symptoms are REALLY hard to treat
When a patient shows up with psychosis, what should be in your differential that you need to rule out before you assume its due to a psychiatric disorder?
Substance intoxication or withdrawal
Medication side effect
Delirium
Dementia
Dementia
Thyroid problem
Neurosyphilis/ CNS infection
Epilepsy (Temporal)
B12 deficiency
Lupus
Huntingtonโs, Wilsons
What three chemicals in the brain cause the symptoms of schizophrenia?
Dopamine
Glutamate
Serotonin
What drugs can cause increased levels of dopamine and thus, symptoms of schizophrenia?
Cocaine
Meth
Levodopa
What drugs mimic glutamate at the NMDA receptor and thus, cause symptoms of schizophrenia?
Ketamine
PCP
What drugs mimic serotonin and result in symptoms of schizophrenia?
LSD
Mescaline
Ecstasy
What effect does serotonin have on dopamine?
Increased release of serotonin results in decreased release of dopamine
(??) slides 11 and 12 seem to contradict each other on this
What are the 7 psychotic disorders in the DSM5?
- Schizotypal Personality Disorder
- Delusional Disorder
- Brief Psychotic Disorder
- Schizophreniform Disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Schizoaffective
- Substance induced, due to General Medical Condition, or Not Otherwise Specified
What is this:
Non-bizarre delusions (Plausible, but false. Ex: being followed by the police)
Hallucinations related to the delusion (ex: sirens)
Psychosocial functioning NOT impaired
Normal thought process
Poor insight
Does not meet criterion A for schizophrenia
Delusional Disorder