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Alcohol use disorder is more common in men, but women are more likely to have “telescoping phenomenon” where the disease and health consequences develop faster.
*Not delirious and not disoriented; they are aware they are hallucinating.
# More likely to have seizures if patient has had seizures before
THC = marijuana
COC = cocaine
OPI = morphine
MET = methamphetamine (ecstasy)
AMP = amphetamines
MTD = methadone
BAR = barbiturates
BZO = benzos
TCA = tricyclic antidepressant
Not life-threatening, but most people FEEL like they want to die
PCP – only acidify urine if no myoglobinuria, or risk of ARF
Load: 10+mg of diazepam equivalents q1hr until sx’s suppressed or oversedated
NAS = high-pitched crying, yawning, sneezing, tremors, ↑ muscle tone, feeding difficulties, diarrhea, tachypnea or apnea, seizures
NAS can be deadly
IOP = best initial tx setting
Outpatient = good after IOP, or if pt unwilling to do IOP
28 day/inpatient = if fail IOP/outpatient tx
Remember – must increase dose SLOWLY
6 day supply at end of 1 yr in tx, 2 wk supply after 1 yr, 1 month supply after 2 yrs in tx.
Visual hallucinations are much less common than auditory hallucinations
Schizophrenics usually have derogatory auditory hallucinations that echo the patients thoughts and frequently command them to do things.
Bizarre delusions are things that cannot be true under any circumstances (alien abduction)
Non-bizarre can be things like thinking the FBI is following you
Ideas of reference means that the patient thinks, for example, radio or TV messages are directed to them personally
Control: thinking that someone is inserting thoughts into your head to control you
Not a loss of neurons, but less dendritic branching
Acute dystonia: acute stiffening of any muscle/muscles
Tardive dyskinesia: happens due to schizophrenia medications; involuntary movements at fingers, toes and mouth. Can be corrected if caught early and the medication is adjusted – but is usually permanent.
Neuroleptic malignant syndrome: rare but life threatening; hyperthermia and delirium
The patient that has a small lesion near a node is worse off than someone who has a large lesion in between; has to do with how many fibers are taken out or spared.
The hippocampii are white indicating necrosis; should look grey like the rest of the brain. This was caused by CO poisoning
Prosody: information that you communicate with your tone of voice.
Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area are connected by the arcuate fasciculus.
This has something to do with Aphasia…
This diagram is also in High-Yield Neuro
Declarative memory: ssn, parents birthday, etc… (hippocampus/neocortical)
Procedural memory: riding a bike, cooking a meal, etc… (neocortical + basal ganglia  just basal ganglia)
SMG – supramarginal gyri
AG – Angular gyri
Alzhiemers commonly affects the parietal lobe and are therefore usually apraxic
Knockout of this pathway can lead to the inability to recognize faces.