Random Flashcards
Disorder with anticipation and psychotic syndromes? Treatments?
Huntington’s
Antipsychotics
Girl 4-5 years presents with mental retardation - cause?
Rett’s Syndrome
Primary vs secondary gain?
Like being treated vs wanting to avoid jail, wanting shelter etc
Dysthymic vs cyclothymia: diagnosis in adults versus children?
2 years in both
1 year in kids
Cataplexy vs catalepsy?
Lose tone vs slow motor behavior
Narcolepsy - deficiency in?
Oxycretin/orexin??
What study to use for rare disease?
Case control
Piaget vs Mahler?
Sensorimotor (achieve object permanence), preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational
Autism, symbiosis (just wants mon), separation-individualtion (hatching, practicing, rapprochement, refueling, object constancy)
Defense mechanism in OCD?; non drug treatment?
Undoing; exposure treatment
Conduct vs oppositional-defiant?
Illegal vs non-illegal activities
REM sleep marked by?
Dreams and erections
REM sleep behavior disorder?
No muscle paralysis in REM sleep
Genetic disorders with skin picking?
Lesch-Nyhan, Prader-Willi
Most common inherited disorder vs most common genetic order for mental retardation?
Fragile X vs Down’s Syndrome
Drug for dystonia?
Anticholinergics (benztropine)