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male veterans are twice as likely to die by __________ as compared with their civilian peers in the general United States population.
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suicide
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About 50% of ppl with addictions have a...
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comorbid mental health illness
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leading cause of disability in the world for women and children in 2020 will be...
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major depressive illness
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What is Psychiatric Illness
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impairment of an individual's normal cognitive, emotional, or behavioral functioning, and caused by social, psychological, biochemical, genetic, or other factors, such as infection or head trauma.
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what is a Psychiatric Disorder
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a cluster of sx that tend to occur together
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Primary psychiatric disorders
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No underlying medical disorder to account for the diagnosis
Not caused by medication Not caused by substance abuse or withdrawal |
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Secondary psychiatric disorders
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Due to a medical condition
Due to a medication(s) Due to substance abuse or withdrawal |
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are etiology usually known/seen in psychiatry?
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no, these are mostly clinically dx diseases. no pathology or lab results tend to show anything unless its a secondary cause.
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what was Karl Jaspers theory?
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that it is the form and not the context that is important. the fact of having hallucinations is important and not what the are.
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Insurance companies will only pay for...
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what is proven by evidence based medicine
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what are only 3 things that the DSM IV tells you.
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criteria, codes, and disorders. has nothing about etiology or the tx.
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Axis 1
Axis 2 Axis 3 Axis 4 Axis 5 |
1= clinical disorders
2= personality disorders, MR 3- GMC 4= psychosial and envirmental problems 5= global assesment scales. |
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psych disorders fall into...
bio disorders fall into... social disorders fall into... |
Axis 1 and 2
axis 3 axis 4 |
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what are the 5 parts to a mental exam (B-PECS)
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behavior
perception emotion cognitive sensorium |
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what is one question you should always ask a depressed person?
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ever thought about suicide
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what should you always rule out in a psy pt?
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underlying cause
labs, images, toxicology, etc |
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What is the Mental Status Exam?
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Comprehensive description of a patient’s appearance, behavior, thinking, feeling, etc.
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is a MMSE the same as a MSE?
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no
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what do you have an voveractivity of when you suppress dopamine?
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ach
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Cataplexy
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sudden loss of muscle tone
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Dystonia
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uncontrolled muscle clinch. Ex: torticolis
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Myoclonus
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jerk
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logorrhea
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diarrhea of the mouth
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mood VS affect
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mood- how the pt says they feel
affect- ood based upon looks sometimes these do not coincide. |
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Thought Process VS thought content
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process- the way the person thinks
content- what the person thinks |
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Circumstantial Thought
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way to may details but gets to the pt
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Tangential Thought
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there is obviously a connections between thhought but they never get to the pt
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Loose Associations
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jump from one subject to another
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Flight of Ideas
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all over the place
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attention VS concentration
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attn- ability to focus
concentration- abikity to focus and carry out a task |
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Language is
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highly lateralized to the left hemisphere
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