Syndromes Flashcards
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What’s Ekbom’s syndrome?
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- delusional psychosis → being infected with parasites
- physical sensation of parasties crawling around the body or burrowing into the skin (formication)
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What’s Cotard Syndrome?
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A delusion of either:
- being dead/ not existing
- being decaying
- losing all the possessions
*it can be a future of severe depression
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What’s Rett’s syndrome?
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- neurodevelopmental disorder
- similar to autism
- developmental decline occurs after 1-2 years of age (following a normal initial development)
- typical behaviours: screaming attacks, avoidance of eye contact, poor social interaction, loss of fine motor skills, developmental of stereotyped hand movements, ataxia
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What’s de Clerambault’s syndrome?
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- delusional belief that someone of higher social status is in love with them
- erotomania
- commoner in women
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What’s Ganser’s syndrome?
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- a factitious disorder /pl sztuczny/
- giving approximate answers to simple questions
- the underlying theme of a question is understood
*deliberately giving an answer that may suggest an underlying psychiatric disorder
*theme is understood but wrong answer given
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What’s Munchausen’s syndrome?
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- factitious /sztuczny/ disorder
- people pretend to be ill or self-inflict a pathology in order to seek medical attention
*Munchausen by proxy → a different person is used for the same purpose (faking a pathology in a child)
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What’s Fregoli’s syndrome?
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- a delusion that a persecutor /przesladowca/ can change into many forms (e.g. looking like different people)
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What’s Othello syndrome?
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- aka delusional jealousy
- feeling that a partner is being unfaithful
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What’s Capgar’s syndrome?
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- delusional belief that a close acquaintance has been replaced by an identical double
- most commonly seen in schizophrenia
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What’s Folie a deux?
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- it is when a delusion in one person becomes shared by someone close to them
*when it occurs in 3 or more people → folie a trois/folie a plusieurs
