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ADHD
5-7% of total school population is affected with ADHD
ADHD
Males to Females 6:1
ADHD, dysfunction of what part of the brain?
PFC, working memory and cognitive function (NE, DA)
ADHD heritability?
between schizophrenia and height
Specific genes with ADHD?
DRD4 on ch11, DAT1 on ch5, D2, Dopamine-beta-hydroxylase gene, noradernergic genes
What lobe for ADHD?
frontal lobe, executive functions
Coexisting disorders with ADHD children?
Tic, Conduct, Mood, Anxiety, ODD
Coexisting disorders with ADHD in adults?
Panic disorder, OCD, Dysthymia, Drug Abuse, Alcohol Abuse, Cuclothymia, GAD
ODD
conduct disorder to antisocial personality disorder (axis I to axis II)
Depression symptoms in children?
depressed affect, somatic complaints, separation anxiety, irritability
Depression symptoms in teens?
anhedonia, increased sleep, feelings of hopelessness, weight change
Bipolar disorder prevalence in children?
1-3%
Bipolar before age 9
irritable mood, labile
Bipolar after age 9
euphoria, gradiose thoughts, delusions and paranoia
Manic and ADHD share?
hyperactivity, pressured speech, distractibility
Age of onset for OCD, child and adult?
9.6, 19.8
Phonic tic age of onset
age 11
ADHD+ Tics + OCD
Tourette's
Tourettes
autosomal dominant transmission
begins age 5-10
tics wax and wane
Negative symptoms in childhood schizophrenia?
poverty speech, avolition, apathy, flat affect
Mental retardation
IQ below 70, impaired adaptive functioning, onset before 18
Mild MR
IQ 50-70, 85%, 6th grade functioning, blending adult
Moderate MR
IQ 40-50, 10%, 2nd grade functioning, sheltered living
Fragile X
long face, prominent ears, macro-orchidism, 5% of MR is Fragile X
Autism
First and late born, close birth order <20 months, most are MR, MZ 3x higher than DZ
Chemical/Neuro for Autism
amygdala, hippocampus smaller, cerebellum has less purkinje cells, blood has less oxytocin
Rett's Disorder
after normal development (4 years), hand-wringing movements, microcephaly, MR, X-linked, GIRLS
Childhood disintegrative disorder
3-4 years of normal development, loss of skills, more common in BOYS
Dream anxiety disorder (nightmare)
late night, REM, recall, quickly become alert
Sleep terror disorder (pavor nocturnus)
non REM (stage 3,4), autonomic hyperarousal, early PM, not alert, no recall
Wernicke-Korsakott
thiamine (Vit B1) deficiency, wernicke's TRIAD: confusion, ataxia, opthalmoplegia
Korsakoff's: chronic phase, loss of short term memory
Delirium
visual, tactile, gustatory, olfactory hallucinations
Delirium sympathetic arousal
Tachycardia, wide pulse pressure, dilated pupils, tremor
Registration
repeat the names of these three objects
construction
copy this design
Aphasia
language disturbance
Apraxia
inability to carry out motor activities despite intact motor function
Agnosia
failure to recognize or identify objects
Dementia: impaired executive functioning
planning, sequencing, abstracting
Alzheimer's Dementia
most common: 50-60%
female, down syndrome, depression, increases with age (20% over 85)
Alzheimers Etiology
CH 1, CH 14: early onset
CH 21: downs
CH 19 APOE4 (women)
Alzheimer's neurotransmitter changes
decreased choline acetyltransferase, over stimulation of NMDA by glutamate
Alzheimer's brain
cortex/hippocampal atrophy
ventricles enlarge
Tangles
Tau collapses, tracts fall apart, unable to move nutrients, CELL DEATH
Early Stage, Alzheimers
plaques and tangles, learning, memory, thinking, planning

symptoms undetected
Moderate stage, Alzheimers
memory, thinking, planning
functioning problems, speech, spatial awareness

personality changes
Severe Alzheimers
most of cortex damaged, severe atrophy, lose ability to communicate/recognize self
Dementia unlike delirium
no impairment of alertness, no wax and wane (sundown), no autonomic arousal, not acute or reversible
Vascular dementia
second most common
15-30%
abrupt onset, not acute
STEPWISE
risk factors for vascular disease
males 50-60 HTN, ASCVD, smoker
Lewy bodies dementia
brainstem, cortex, visual hallucinations and parkinsonism
Pick's dementia
Frontotemporal
disinhibition, language impairment
Huntingtons
CH 4, striatal atrophy, middle age, choreoathetosis