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82 Cards in this Set
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Support emotion,memory, mood, motivation & behavior
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Limbic System
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Medial edges of two cerebral hemispheres
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Limbic lobe
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“relay” station
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Thalamus
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Controls emotions
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Hypothalamus
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Lobe of brain
Reasoning, judgment, planning, personality, creativity and recent memories Injury causes: flat affect, disinterest, inability to concentrate, inappropriate laughing/crying/behavior, abide by/create rules, etc |
Frontal lobe
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Controls pleasure, excitement, fear, anger and sexual arousal
Injury causes: overeating/obesity, disinterest in eating, sleep abnormalities |
Hypothalamus
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Interpret facial expressions, new social situations, id danger
Hyperstimulation causes: aggressive behavior Injury causes: loss of emotions |
Amygdaloid bodies
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Controls emotions/long-term memory
Injury or degeneration causes: loss of long-term memory |
Hippocampus
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a neurotransmitter
Increased levels: anxiety, social phobia, performance phobia and panic attacks |
Epinephrine
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a neurotransmitter
Increased levels: aggression, infatuation, mania |
Norepinephrine
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a neurotransmitter
Increased levels: caused by alcohol or drugs Increased levels couple w/ decreased serotonin = paranoia Decreased levels: schizophrenia & depression |
Dopamine
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Decreased levels: depression
Decreased level coupled with increased norepinephrine = violent behavior |
Serotonin
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Decreased levels: anxiety
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Gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA)
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Dwelling on “what if…” and predicting or fearing the worst in a situation
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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Constant, persistent, uncontrolled thoughts that occupy mind, cause anxiety and compel patient to perform excessive, repetitive, meaningless tasks
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
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Sudden attacks of severe, overwhelming anxiety without an identifiable cause
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Panic Disorder
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Delayed anxiety due to painful external event
Disinterest in people or current events Insomnia, irritable, occasional violent outbursts May last weeks, months or years |
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
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an extreme or irrational fear of heights
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Acrophobia
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an anxiety disorder defined as a morbid fear of wide open spaces, crowds, or uncontrolled social conditions
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Agoraphobia
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the fear of spiders and other arachnids such as scorpions.
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Arachnophobia
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fear of having no escape and being closed in
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Claustrophobia
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fear of small, invisible objects such as germs and/or microbes
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Microphobia
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Fear of snakes
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Ophidiophobia
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a persistent and irrational fear of situations that may involve scrutiny or judgment by others, such as parties and other social events
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Social phobia
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fear of death
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Thanatophobia
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fear of foreigners or strangers
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Xenophobia
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Partial or total loss of long-term memory due to trauma or disease of hippocampus
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Amnesia
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Acute confusion, disorientation and agitation due to toxic levels of chemicals, drugs or alcohol
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Delirium
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Gradual, progressive deterioration due to aging or neurological disease process
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Dementia
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Areas of brain affected by dementia and Alzheimer's Disease
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Frontal lobe (behavior)
Temporal lobe (memory) Parietal lobe (language) |
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Short attention span, distracts easily, doesn’t follow directions, hyperactive, impulsive and emotional liability
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
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Inability to communicate or form relationships
May be of normal intelligence or may be mentally challenged - Repetitive behaviors - echolalia (repeat words that others say) |
Autism
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Aggressive behavior; Refusal to obey orders; Disrespect authority figures
Conduct disorder is severe form |
Oppositional defiant disorder
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Frequent, spontaneous, involuntary motor and vocal movements (tics)
Inappropriate comments (obscene and vulgar= {coprolalia}, racist) May also have echolalia, OCD or hyperactivity |
Tourette’s Syndrome
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Extreme, chronic fear of being fat
Refuse to eat Refusal to maintain normal body weight Affects your whole body |
Anorexia nervosa
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Recurrent binge eating (gorge/vomit)
Depressed mood Low self esteem |
Bulimia
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Feigning illness in order to receive tangible reward or excuse absence from work
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Malingering
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Making up medical problems in order to seek attention
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Munchausen Syndrome
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Illness created in person unable to take care of themselves (child) in order to seek attention
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Munchausen by proxy
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Acute blindness, deafness, paralysis, or inability to speak without physical basis
Anxiety is too painful to face |
Conversion disorder
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Convinced they have serious illness and seek medical attention often
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Hypochondriac
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Impulse to steal
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Kleptomania
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Gambling that interferes with job, family life, etc
Lie about financial status |
Pathological gambling
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Deliberately setting fires for self pleasure
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Pyromania
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Repetitive pulling out of one’s own hair
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Trichotillomania
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Chronic moods swings of mania and depression
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Bipolar
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Chronic, mild-moderate depression
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Dysthymia
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Chronic, severe
Apathy, hopelessness, helplessness, worthlessness, crying, insomnia, lack of pleasure in any activity, inability to concentrate or make decisions, slowed movements |
Major depression
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Continued, fixed false beliefs concerning everyday events
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Delusional disorder
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Chronic loss of touch with reality in most or all aspects of life
Bizarre behavior - Hallucinations - Neologisms (meaningless words) - catatonia (characterized by a marked lack of movement, activity, or expression) - Catalepsy (extremities stay fixed in placed position) - hebephrenia (childish, silly behavior) |
Schizophrenia
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Disregard for rules and standard conduct of society
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Antisocial
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Avoids social contact because of shyness and extreme fear of criticism or rejection
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Avoidant
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Fear abandonment and panic when alone
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Borderline
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Expects/wants to be told what to do/think
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Dependent
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Exaggerated sense of self worth
Histroinic effect |
Narcissistic
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Everything in it’s place and accounted for
Unwilling to compromise Only one way to do something |
Obsessive-compulsive
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Screening tool that assess degree of depression
Rating scale used |
Beck Depression Inventory
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Assigns point values to various stressors
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Holmes Social Readjustment Rating Scale
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Show abstract shapes on cards
Asks patient to describe what inkblot represents |
Rorschach test
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Shown 31 different pictures
asked to describes what is happening in each |
Thematic Apperception Test
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Inhibit enzyme that metabolizes breakdown of alcohol
- antabuse |
Drugs for alcoholism
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Inhibits action of excessive norepinephrine while increasing sensitivity of serotonin
- lithium |
Drugs for mania
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fear
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-phob/o
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pertaining to
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condition, or state
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pertaining to going
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thinking
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-cognit/o
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self
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aut/o
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sound
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ech/o
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a process
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-esis
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across, through
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trans-
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two
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bi-
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to steal
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klept/o
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fire, burning
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pyr/o
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hair
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trich/o
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against
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anti-
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meaningless words
Associated with schizophrenia |
Neologisms
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characterized by a marked lack of movement, activity, or expression
Associated with schizophrenia |
catatonia
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extremities stay fixed in placed position
Associated with schizophrenia |
Catalepsy
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childish, silly behavior
Associated with schizophrenia |
hebephrenia
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repeat words that others say
Associated with Autism |
echolalia
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saying vulgar words
Associated with Tourette's Syndrome |
coprolalia
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