Reminders 2 Flashcards
Cruzfeldt-Jakob’s disease
Caused by Prions disease
Most aggressive (rapidly progressing) form of neurocognitive disorder
Drugs that reduce tics
Drugs that reduce dopamine
Three primary sx of schizophrenia
Hallucinations
Delusions
Disorganized speech
Early Alzheimer’s will show degeneration…
In the entorhinal cortex
Causes of adolescent-limited and life-course persistent development of antisocial traits
Adolescent-limited type is due to a maturity gap
Life-course persistent is due to neurological deficits
Lifetime suicide risk for people with BD
15x higher than general population
Techniques used to teach verbal communication to autistic children
Discrimination training and shaping
For sleep issues in people with MDD
Increased sleep latency
Increased REM density
Decreased REM latency
Decreased slow-wave sleep
High expressed emotion predicts relapse of…
Schizophrenia and MDD
Illness anxiety disorder
Preoccupation with having or getting a serious illness
May or may not have somatic sx, if you do they’re usually mild
“Analysis” practice of psychoanalysis involves…
Confrontation
Clarification
Interpretation
Working through
Teleological approach
Adler
Emphasizes future goals over past behaviors
(Style of life and striving towards superiority, depends on social interest)
Focus of narrative family therapy
Focuses on how the problem is effecting the family (the problem is the problem, not the person)
Replacing problem-saturated stories with satisfying and supportive stories (meeting family, listening for sparking moments, separating members for their problems, enacting preferred narratives, strengthening the better narratives)
Two types of questions used by narrative family therapists
Externalizing questions - view problems as being outside of yourself (what does your anger tell you to do)
Opening space questions - help members identify unique outcomes (have there ever been times when xyz didn’t happen)
Circular questioning
Part of systemic family therapy (Milan)
Joining
Part of structural family therapy
Allows you to enter the family and make adjustments, while still keeping and forming therapeutic rapport (being supportive to the family)
Scaling questions
Solution-focused therapy
Helps clients evaluate their current progress towards their treatment goals
What explains increase of stress and mental health symptoms in LGBT clients
Minority stress
What percentage of patients receive sx improvement after [ # ] sessions?
75% see improvement after 26 sessions
Object constancy
Part of object relations theory
Maintaining a positive connection with your significant other even when they are not immediately gratifying your needs
Sue and Sue’s example of twins communicating vs attorneys communicating
High and low communication
High for twins growing up in same house
Low for two attorneys communicating in court
Efficacy vs Effectiveness
Efficacy - highly controlled trials of whether something works
(High internal validity, low external validity)
Effectiveness - less controlled, more error
(High external validly, low internal validity)
Per Cross’s model, when a minority person does not appraise their problems to be the result of discrimination…
They are in the pre-encounter phase
Per Helms model, when a white therapist can best work integrative,y with minorities…
They are in the autonomy stage
Theme interference
Caplan
When loss of objectivity occurs because the therapist is treating clients in accordance with a past interaction
Electronic stimulation of the ___________ causes aggression in animals
Hypothalamus
Conduction aphasia
Damage to arcuate fasciculus (connects Wernicke’s and Broca’s areas)
Fluent speech, normal communication, impaired repetition
Weber’s law
JND is due to a constant proportion
Low metabolites of serotonin in the CSF…
Found in individuals with increased risk of suicide attempts and completed suicide
Purpose of dichroic listening task
Studies of hemispheric specialization
Quality of REM dreams…
More emotional and bizarre than dreams occurring in other sleep stages
More likely to be remembered than dreams in other sleep stages
Papez Circuit is related to…
Emotional expression and experiences
Cause of diabetes insipidus
Low levels of ADH (secreted by the pituitary)
Ideomotor apraxia
Damage to the left dominant parietal lobe
Cannot turn an idea into action (would struggle with being given verbal commands to do something)
What part of the brain is associated with OCD
Basal ganglia
Simple partial seizures VS Complex partial seizures
Both have tingling and jerking of limbs, blinking, sometimes only on one side of the body (less severe than tonic clinic jerking)
Simple Partial - no alteration in consciousness
Complex Partial - alteration in consciousness
Years of infantile amnesia
3-4yo
Neither adults nor children can recall memories from before this age
What part of temperament (per Kagan) is biologically based and stable over time
Behavioral inhibition
Can be altered by env situations