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33 Cards in this Set
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Grave's Disease
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Hyperthyroidism
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Cushing's Disease
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overactive adrenal gland
agitated depression, irritability, problems with memory and concentration. Adiposity of face, neck, and truck. |
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Huntington's Disease
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heritable disease transmitted by a single dominant gene. dx bet 30-50
starts with emotional and cognitive symptoms progresses to physical symptoms, and dementia (basal ganglia problems) |
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Parkinson's Disease
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Progressive degeneration of dopamie containing cells in substantia nigra
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Hyperthyroidism is
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characterized by heat intolerance, tachycardia, hyperactive reflexes, distractibility, and impaired problem-solving
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Symptoms of hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) include
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polydipsia, polyuria, polyphagia, fatigue, weight loss, and recurrent infections.
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Hypothyroidism is
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characterized by cold intolerance, bradycardia, fatigue, mental slowing, and decreased libido
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hypoglycemia
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Intense hunger, headaches, anxiety, dizziness, weakness, heart palpitations, and confusion
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Tourette’s syndrome has been most consistently linked to abnormalities in
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basal ganglia
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Basal ganglia dysfunction has been implicated in a number of disorders including
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Tourette’s syndrome, ADHD, OCD, and schizophrenia.
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According to Weber’s law
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the more intense the stimulus, the greater the increase in stimulus intensity required for the increase to be perceived
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Fechner’s law proposes that
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sensation is a logarithmic function of stimulus intensity – i.e., that a person’s experience of stimulus intensity increases arithmetically as the stimulus intensity increases geometrically
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Anticholinergic side effects result
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when the amount of acetylcholine (ACh) in the central and peripheral nervous systems is reduced.
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Anticholinergic side effects are
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dry mouth, blurred vision, urinary retention, constipation, decreased perspiration, and tachycardia.
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Tardive dyskensia is characterized by
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repetitive, involuntary tic-like movements of the face, eyelids, mouth, tongue, extremities, and/or trunk.
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Acute dystonia is
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an early-onset side effect of the antipsychotics. Its primary symptoms are muscle spasms and slow abnormal movements, most often in the eyes, jaw, and tongue
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Parkinsonism is
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an intermediate-onset side effect of the antipsychotic drugs. Its symptoms include muscle rigidity, impaired balance, gait changes, tremors, changes in facial expressions and speech, and muscle cramps
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Damage to the dominant temporal lobe may cause
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verbal memory loss, while damage to the nondominant temporal lobe may produce nonverbal memory loss
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The right hippocampus is
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involved in memory for nonverbal information, including spatial and temporal memory
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symptoms of Kluver-Bucy syndrome include
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Agnosia (“psychic blindness”)reduced fear, increased docility, compulsive oral behaviors, markedly different dietary habits, and hypersexuality
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side effects of the beta-blocker propranolol
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bradycardia, shortness of breath, and depression
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common side effects of the psychostimulant drugs.
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insomnia, appetite loss, and restlessness
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Common side effects of the benzodiazepines include
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drowsiness, impaired psychomotor ability, disorientation and confusion, anterograde amnesia, and depression
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signs of narcotic-analgesic overdose
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muscle rigidity, catalepsy, and clammy skin
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ECT and memory loss
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Anterograde amnesia does occur with ECT but generally clears up within six months. However, loss of memory for past events (events prior to ECT) is sometimes permanent and most often involves autobiographical memories from the recent past.
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a lesion in the temporal lobe affects
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memory, may produce hallucinations (especially auditory hallucinations), and often affects mood.
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The temporal lobe mediates
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auditory perception and memory
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frontal lobe lesions
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poor judgment, impulsivity, and inappropriate jocularity
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occipital lobe lesions
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homonymous hemianopia, prosopagnosia, and irritability and suspiciousness
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parietal lobe lesions may produce
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dysgraphia, depression and apathy, and denial of his/her problems
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Damage at the lumbar or sacral level is likely to cause
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some loss of functioning in the hips and legs.
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Quadriplegia (the loss of sensory and motor functioning in the arms and legs) results from damage at
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the cervical level.
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Paraplegia (loss of functioning in the legs) is caused by damage at
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the thoracic level
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