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)
Drug that worsen Akathisia and Tardive Dyskinesia? Treatment for each?
Anticholinergics
Propranolol vs clozapine
Drug for psychosis in Parkinson’s?
Clozapine (Seroquel second)
Temporal lobe seizure - most common cause?
HSV
Lesions in Korsakoff’s?
Mammillary bodies or thalamus
Wernicke’s marked by? Korsakoff’s?
Araxua, nystagmus vs confabulation
Treatment for tics?
Antipsychotics, alpha-2 agonists (clonidine)
Prazosin used to treat?
Nightmares and ??
Alternative to benzodiazepines in anxiety?
SSRIs and Buspirone
Opiate withdrawal Symptoms and treatment?
Lacrimation, piloerection, diarrhea, twitching
Supportive, methadone and clonidine
Lesion location in Alzheimer’s?
Parietal-temporal
Periodic sharp waves?
3 Hz waves?
3 spike waves?
Prions
Absence seizures
Hepatic encephalopathy
Amenorrhea after medication - cause?
Antipsychotics
Aplastic anemia caused by? Thrombocytopenia?
Carbamazepine; Valproic acid
TCA overdose - cardiac sign and treatment?
QRS prolongation
Charcoal or sodium bicarbonate to alkalizate urine
Treatment of NMS?
Danteolene or DA agonists (Bromocriptine, anatadine)
Seizure in schizophrenia - causes?
Clozapine
Hyponatremia from psychogenic polydipsia or carbamazepine/lithium
Actute mania treatment?
Antipsychotics + benzodiazepines + mood stabilizer
Hyperplasia and hypersomnia - causes? Treatment?
Atypical depressant or seasonal affective disorder
SSRIs then MAOIs
vascular symptoms of MAOIs?
Hypotension (rarely hypertension crisis)