Final Abnormal Psych Exam

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Personality disorder

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Ingrained patterns of relating to other people,situations, and events with a rigid a maladaptive pattern of inner experience and behavior, dating back to adolescents

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Psychopath

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A cluster of traits that form the core of the anti social personality

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Sociopath

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A personality disorder characterized by a lack of regard for society's moral or legal standards and an impulsive and risky lifestyle

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Magical Thinking

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Claiming they can predict the future, read the thoughts of others and so on usually seem paranoid

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Schizotypal personality disorder

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A personality disorder that primarily involves odd believes behaviors appearances and interpersonal style people with this disorder may have bizarre ideas or preoccupation such as magical thinking and belief in psychic phenomena

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Avoidant personality disorder

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A personality disorder in which people have Low estimation of their social skills and are fearful of disapproval rejection and criticism or being shamed or embarrassed

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Histrionic Personality Disorder

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A personality disorder characterized by exaggerated emotional reactions, approaching theatrically, in everyday behavior

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Narcissistic Personality Disorder

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A personality disorder primarily characterized by an unrealistic inflated sense of self importance and lack of sensitivity to the needs of other people

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Pica

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A condition in which a person eats inedible substances such as dirt or feces commonly associated with mental retardation

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Rumination

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And eating disorder in which the infant or child regurgitates food after it has been swallowed and then either spits it out or reswallows it

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Anorexia

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And eating disorder characterized by an inability to maintain normal weight and an intense fear of gaining weight and a distorted body perception

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Bulimia

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And eating disorder involving alternation between the extremes of eating large amounts of food in a short time and then compensating for the added calories by either vomiting or extreme actions to avoid gaining weight

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Eunuresis

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And elimination disorder in which the child is incontinent of urine and urinates and clothes or bed after the age of the child is expected to be continent

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Encopresis

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A elimination disorder in which the child is incontinent of feces and has bowel movements either in clothes or in another inappropriate place

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Pedophilia

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A paraphiliac disorder in which an adult is sexually aroused but children or adolescents

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Fetish disorder

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A paraphilic disorder in which the individual is preoccupied with an object and depends on this object rather than sexual intimacy with partner for achieving sexual gratification

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Sadism

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A paraphilic disorder in which sexual gratification is derived from activities that harm or from urges to harm another person

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Masochism

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A paraphilic disorder marked by an attraction to achieving sexual gratification by having painful stimulation applied to ones own body

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Sexual dysfunction

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An abnormality in an individual's sexual responsiveness and reactions

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Gender dysphoria

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distress that may accompany the incongruence between a persons experienced or expressed gender and that persons assigned gender

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Paraphilias

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Behaviors in which an individual has recurrent, intense sexual arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving

1. Non human objects

2. Children or of other non consenting persons

3. The suffering or humiliation of self or partner

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Amnesia

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Inability to recall information that was previously learned or to register new memories

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Wernicke's disease

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A form of aphasia in which the individual is able to produce language but has not lost the ability to comprehend so that these verbal productions have no meaning

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Broca's aphasia

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When a stroke injures the frontal regions of the left hemisphere, different kinds of language problems can occur. This part of the brain is important for putting words together to form complete

sentences. Injury to the left frontal area

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Alzheimer's disease

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A progressive disease that destroys memory and other important mental functions. A person can have one of the three stages which is mild, moderate, and severe

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Picks disease

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A relatively rare degenerative disease that affects the frontal and temporal lobes of the cerebral cortex and that can cause neurocognitive disorders.

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Parkinson's disease

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A neurocognitive disorder that involves degeneration of neurons in the subcortical structure that control motor movements

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Depression

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Involves periods of symptoms in which an individual experiences an unusual intense sad mood

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Substance tolerance

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The extent to which an individual requires larger and larger amounts of substance in order to achieve its desired effects or extent to which the individual feels less of its effects after using the same amount of substance

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Withdrawal

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Physiological and psychological changes that occur when an individual stops taking a substance

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Substance Abuse

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The pattern of maladaptive substance use that leads to significant impairment or distress

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Amphetamines

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A stimulant that affects both the central nervous system and the autonomic nervous system

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Stimulant

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A psychoactive substance that has an activation effect on the central nervous system

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Hallucinogen

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Psychoactive substances that cause abnormal perceptual experiences in the form of illusions or hallucinations usually visual I'm nature

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Hypnotic

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A substance that induces sedation

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Sedative

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A psychoactive substance that has a calming effect on the central nervous system

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Ecstasy (MDMA)

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A hallucinogenic drug made from a synthetic substance chemically similar to methamphetamine and mescaline

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Gambling disorder

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A non substance disorder involving the persistent urge to gamble

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Pyromania

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An impulse control disorder involving the persistent and compelling urge to start fires

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Trichotillomainia

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An impulse control disorder involving the compulsive persistent urge to pull out ones own hair

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Anti social personality disorder characteristics

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They have a predatory attitude a chronic indifference to and violations of others

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Cleckly Description of antisocial personality disorder

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1. Misdeeds not just impulsive but unmotivated

2. Only the shallowest emotions

Don't feel anxiety or remorse from ignoring obligations

3. Poor judgment and failure to learn from experience.

4. Able to maintain a pleasant and convincing exterior (manipulation used if needed

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Cleckly Description of antisocial personality disorder

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1. Misdeeds not just impulsive but unmotivated

2. Only the shallowest emotions

Don't feel anxiety or remorse from ignoring obligations

3. Poor judgment and failure to learn from experience.

4. Able to maintain a pleasant and convincing exterior (manipulation used if needed)

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Schizoid personality disorder

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A personality disorder primary characterized by an indifference to social relationships as well as a very limited range of emotional experience and expression

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Personality disorder

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Ingrained patterns of relating to other people, situations, and events with a rigid and maladaptive pattern of inner experience and behavior, dating back to adolescences or early adulthood

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Dependent personality disorder

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A personality disorder whose main characteristic is that the individual is extremely passive and tends to cling to other people, to point of being unable to make any decisions or to take independent action

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Self dramatization

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Dramatization of ones own situation or feelings for effect

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Borderline personality disorder

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A personality disorder characterized by a pervasive pattern of poor impulse control and instability in mood, interpersonal relationships, and sense of self

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Borderline personality disorder

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A personality disorder characterized by a pervasive pattern of poor impulse control and instability in mood, interpersonal relationships, and sense of self

1. Difficulties in establishing a secure of self identity

2. Distrust

3. Impulse and self destructive behavior

4. Difficulty controlling anger/ emotions

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Sleep wake disorders

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Consist of: insomnia, narcolepsy, hypersomnolence, breathing sleep related disorders, circadian rhythm sleep wake, parasomnias

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Purging

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Eliminating food through unnatural methods such as vomiting or excessive use of laxatives

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Oppositional defiant disorder

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A disorder characterized by angry or irritable mood, argumentative or defiant behavior and vindictiveness that results in significant family or school problems

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Exhibitionism

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A paraphilic disorder in which a person has intense sexual urges and a rousing fantasies involving the exposure of genitals to a stranger

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Voyeurism

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A paraphilic disorder in which the individual has a compulsion to derive sexual gratification from observing the nudity or sexual activity of others

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Frotteuristic disorder

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A paraphilic disorder in which the individual has intense sexual urges and sexual arousing fantasies of rubbing up against or fondling an unsuspecting stranger

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Transvestic disorder

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Diagnosis applied to individuals who engage in transvestism behavior and have symptoms of a paraphilic disorder

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Transsexualism

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A term sometimes used to refer to gender dysphoria specifically pertaining to individuals choosing to undergo sex reassignment surgery

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Delirium

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A neurocognitive disorder that is temporary in nature involving disturbances in attention and awareness

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Korsakoff syndrome

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A permanent form of dementia associated with long term alcohol use in which the individual develops retrograde and anterograde amnesia leading to inability to remember recent events or learn new information

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Apraxia

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inability to perform particular purposive actions, as a result of brain damage.

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Agnosia

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inability to interpret sensations and hence to recognize things, typically as a result of brain

damage.

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Substance dependence

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A maladaptive of substance use manifested by a cluster of cognitive, behavioral, psychological symptoms during a 12 month period and caused by the continued use of a substance

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Cocaine

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A highly addictive central nervous system stimulant that an individual snorts objects of smokes

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Opioid

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A psychoactive substance that relieves pain

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Impulse control disorder

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Psychological disorder in which people repeatedly engage in behaviors that are potentially harmful, feeling unable to stop themselves and experiencing a sense of desperation of their attempts to carry out the behaviors are thwarted

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Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)

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A form of a hallucinogenic drug that users ingest in tablets, capsules and liquid form

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Peyote

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A form of hallucinogen drug whose primary ingredient is mescaline

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Alzheimer's

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A neurocognitive disorder associated with progressive, gradual declines in memory, learning, and at least one other cognitive domain

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Huntingtons disease

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A hereditary condition causing neurocognitive disorder that involves a widespread of deterioration of the subcortical brain structures and parts of the frontal cortex that control motor movements

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Creutzfeldt-Jakob

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A neurological disease transmitted from animals to humans that leads to neurocognitive disorder and death resulting from abnormal protein accumulations in the brain

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Parkinson's

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A neurocognitive disorder that involves degeneration of neurons in the subcortical structure that control motor movement

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Kleptomania

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An impulse control disorder that involves the persistent urge to steal

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Intermittent explosive disorder

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An impulse control disorder involving an inability to hold back urges to express strong angry feelings and associated violent behaviors