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false belief that is not supported by fact and cannot be challenged successfully by logic or reason
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delusion
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What may help clarify intermittent explosive disorder?
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EEG
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3 year old girl: clumsy, poorly coordinated, impaired language, constantly wringing her hands, small head
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Rett's disorder
DSM IV Pervasive Developmental Disorder |
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OCD and obsessive personality disorder are differentiated by ?
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presence of obsession and compulsions in the disorder
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IQ level from 35-40 to 50-55
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Preschool to second grade level
moderate mental retardation |
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Concrete thinking is normal in ?
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Children
Schizophrenia Cognitive disorders (mental retardation, dementia) |
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Do males or females have a higher risk for suicide?
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Males are at higher risk for completed suicide.
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Do people >45 or young people have a higher suicide risk?
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People >45
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Suicide risk for ethnic groups? (most to least)
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Caucasians
Native Americans African Americans Hispanics Asians |
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What marital status has the highest risk for suicide?
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Divorced.
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Do people usually talk about their suicide before going through with it?
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Yes. Especially if they describe very specific plans.
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catatonic posturing is usually seen in ?
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schizophrenia
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inability to perform voluntary motor activity in the absence of motor or sensory deficits
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apraxia
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protracted contraction of a group of muscles
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dystonia
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the stimulation of one sensory modality produces a sensation belonging to another sensory modality (color is perceived as smell)
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synesthesia
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sleep like condition characterized by a reduced state of consciousness
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trance
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perception of a stimulus when, in fact, no sensory stimulus is present
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hallucination
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erroneous unshakable belief
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delusion
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auditory hallucinations are most commonly associated with ?
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psychotic illness
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What type of hallucinations are common to neurologic disorders?
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NOT auditory
visual tactile gustatory olfactory |
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address problems at an early stage to avoid future more severe problems
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secondary prevention
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a PORTION of the population who has a specific disorder at a specific point in time regardless of when the disorder started (snapshot)
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prevalence
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a RATE that includes only those people who develop the disease during a specific period of time (usually one year)
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incidence
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preventing a disorder from happening in the future; targets normal individuals at risk
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primary prevention
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interventions aimed at reducing the disability or the duration of a disorder
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tertiary prevention
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Mood vs. Affect
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Mood: sustained feeling tone experienced internally by the pt.; REPORTED
Affect: feeling tone that accompanies pt.'s verbalizations or immediate behaviors; OBSERVED |
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Pt. stops talking in the middle of a sentence and cannot finish his/her thoughts
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blocking
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inability to change the topic or gives the same answer to different questions
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perseveration
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Looseness of association is found in ?
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schizophrenia
acute mania |
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The belief that specific thoughts, words or gestures can lead directly to fulfillment of wishes.
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magical thinking
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Delusional belief that oneself or part of oneself has ceased to exist
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Nihilism
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repetitive behavior or ritual that is performed to avoid future unpleasant events
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compulsion
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the appearance of regressive behaviors and fears during the oedipal period as an attempt to withdraw from the conflicts caused by the intensity of oedipal longing for the parents of the opposite sex
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infantile neurosis
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inherited set of personality traits such as adaptability, intensity of reaction, threshold of responsiveness, etc.
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temperament
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Which theorist primarily focused on the importance of early interpersonal experiences in the development of a cohesive and stable sense of self?
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Kohut
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Piaget is best known for ?
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Cognitive development theories - the way children reason and make sense of their environment at different ages.
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The concept of the transitional object such as a security blanket was introduced by whom?
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Winnicott
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animus and anima, according to Jung
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animus: masculine elements of woman's personality
anima: feminine elements of man's personality |
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subjective feeling of restlessness and inability to stay still
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akathisia
very common in neuroleptic treatment more frequent in individuals with recent onset psychosis |
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TOC for akathisia?
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beta blockers, particularly propanolol
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clomipramine
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TCA with SRI properties
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-pramines and -triptylines ?
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TCA's
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an effective antidepressant used in the treatment of ADHD as well
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bupropion
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only antipsychotics that ameliorate negative sx.'s of schizophrenia
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olanzepine (Zyprexa)
clozapine (Clozaril) |
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TCAs are fatal at what dosages?
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2 - 3 grams
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drugs used to reverse the negative sexual SE's of SSRI's
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cyproeptadine
yohimbine bethanecol amantidine buproprion |
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What class of meds causes nipples to "leak" and how?
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antipsychotics
DA receptor blockade causes hyperprolactinemia |
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What OTC drug can cause increase in lithium levels and thus, pts. should be warned?
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NSAIDS - ibuprofen, naproxen, diclofenac, indomethacin
inhibition of renal tubular prostaglandin synthesis |
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high potency neuroleptics
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haloperidol
fluphenazine |
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low potency neuroleptics
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thioridazine
chlorpromazine |
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aplastic anemia is a rare SE of what drug
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carbamazepine
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What drug to use in schizophrenic pts. who do not respond to other treatments?
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clozapine
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