Terminology Flashcards
What is euthymic?
normal mood
What is cyclothymic?
variable mood
What is anhedonia?
loss of enjoyment
What is anergia?
lack of energy
What is early morning wakening?
waking up around 2 hours before the normal waking time
What is psychomotor retardation?
slowing of thoughts and/or movement
What is stupor?
absence of relational functions
What is the difference between mood and affect?
- mood: subjective, how the patient feels
- affect: objective, how the patient reacts
What is in the 5 factor model of personality?
- openness
- conscientiousness
- extraversion
- agreeableness
- neuroticism
How are means and proportions compared statistically?
- means = t test
- proportions = Chi-squared test
When can you reject the Null Hypothesis?
P value = low/<0.05
What are the features of prospective cohort studies?
- Time consuming
- Expensive
- Defined cohort with detailed exposure records
What are the features of retrospective cohort studies?
- Faster answers
- Cheaper
- Quality of records has to be checked
What are the positives of cohort studies in general?
- No recall bias
- Can study multiple outcomes
- Can measure incidence
What are the negatives of cohort studies in general?
- Requires large investment of time and resources
- Large sample sizes
- Bias due to loss of follow-up
- Inefficient for rare diseases
What are the features of a case-control study?
- you take cases of people with the disease and a control group of people who don’t have it
- outcome is an odds ratio (OR)
- immediate information
What is a cross-sectional study?
more like a survey so is carried out at a single point in time
What is a hallucination?
- perception in the absence of an external stimuli
- not subject to conscious change
What are the characteristics of obsessional thoughts?
resisted
unpleasant
repetitive
What is anticipation in terms of disease?
each generation develops a genetic disease at an earlier age
