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Rank of suicide for adolescents
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third leading cause of death
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psychological autopsy
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psychological profile of an individual who has committed suicide is reconstructed and examined for clues
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Two main sources for head injuries in children
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bicycle accidents, child abuse
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How much change in the brain depends on?
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1) severity and location of injury
2) personality pre-existing before (coping mechanisms) and functioning before |
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Who particularly have closed head injuries?
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young male adults; usually damage frontal and temporal lobes
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When more likley to have depression with brain injury?
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When stroke on posterior of right side and frontal left side
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What is memory?
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a process
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Annual cost from schizophrenia
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$100 billion
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Annual cost from schizophrenia
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$100 billion
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Pos and Neg symptom chart
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chart
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What is difference between delusional disroder and paranoid schizophrenia?
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delusional disorder is one specific focus and reality testing is good in all other areas; paranoid schizophrenics have multiple delusions and reality is very distorted
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Difference between schizotypal personality disorder and schizophrenia?
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Shcizotypal will feel someone is there but schizophrenia will actually believe their hallucination
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what does dopamine have to do with?
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it is a "switch", movement
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Percentage of schizophrenics that commit suicide?
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10%
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Social services for schizophrenics
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recreation, social support, income support, housing
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Continuity of care
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active coordination of services
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rehabilitation
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housekeeping, job training, nutrition, hygiene, transportation
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What is dopamine?
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neurotransmitter
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What does dopamine deal with?
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limbic system (emotions)
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3 systems for dopamine and serotonin and which for schizophrenia?
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*mesolimbic system, mesocortical system, nigrostriatal system
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defecits and strategies for schizophrenics
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chart
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differences in therapy racially
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negative in African Americans and Hispanic to take medication but more acceptable to get therapy
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how long is complicated bereavement?
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longer than one year
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6 specifiers
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sheet
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Name some consequences of MDD?
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substance abuse, early parenting, suicide attempts, social impairments
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suicide rates highest in?
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elderly
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who is more likely to commit suicide between dysthmia and MDD?
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dysthymia
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Permissive hypothesis?
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low serotonin = other neuotransmitters aren't regulated --> depression
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what is arbitrary inference?
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emphasize negative aspects
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overgeneraliztion?
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transfer negative part of one event to all event
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suicide is what leading cause of death in united states?
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8th
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which gender is more likely to commit?
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males
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altruistic suicide?
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sanctioned by the family
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egoistic suicide?
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from disintegration of social support
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anomic suicide?
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follows disruption in life
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fatalistic suicide
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loss of control of one's destiny
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low serotonin =
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high impulsivity
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percentage of those who commit suicide has disorder or mood disorder
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disorder = 90%
mood disorder = 60% |
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cognitive triad for depression
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negative cognitions of self, world, future
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difference between MDD single and recurrent
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single has one episode, recurrent has at least 2 episodes seperated by at least 2 months
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when may not take medications?
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mania
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What does orbital frontal injury cause?
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changes in personality, stability
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What does dorsolateral injury cause?
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apathy, can't initiate, attention defecits
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why called atypical neruoleptic
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affets pos. AND neg symptoms; less extrapyramidal side effects
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difference between amnesic disorder and dissociative amneisa
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dissociative amensia is a psych. mechanism while amnesic disorder is organic
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what can l-dopa do in biploar patients
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create hypomania
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clang associations?
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rhyming
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what axis is alzheimers disease?
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axis 1
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difference of delusions of grandeur in Manic and shizophrenic
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manic = think highly of self; schizophrenia = think you are someone else who is higher
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is alzheimer's reversible?
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no
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are dementia patients aware they are detoriating mentally?
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yes
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which gender is more likely to have mood disorders?
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women but for depression and dysthymia
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as many as ___ % of those with alzheimers suffer from depression
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50
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difference in sleeping in those with depression
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shorter period of time after falling asleep before REM begins
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bipolar have greater snesitivity to?
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light
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difference in brain waves?
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more on right side than left side
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what is importnat in life event?
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context and meaning
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difference in brain waves?
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more on right side than left side
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