Anxiety Disorders
What is Generalized Anxiety disorder?
Decreased serotonergic activity.
What is the hypothesized cause of major depressive disorder?
A person loses touch with reality
What is psychosis?
Decline in reasoning, memory, judgement, and other cognitive functions?
What is dementia?
Forgetting the purpose of familiar items
What is agnosia?
Emotional significance of events and emotional memories
What is the role of the amygdala?
Seasonal form
What is seasonal affective disorder?
Neologisms, clang associations, word salad, echolalia, flight of ideas
What are possible unique expression of individuals with schizophrenia?
Alzheimer's disease, Lewy body, Parkinson's, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Huntington's disease.
What are causes of dementia?
Forgetting how to perform activities
What is apraxia?
Recurrent, unexpected episodes of extreme anxiety
What is panic disorder?
Cycles of depression and mania
What is Bipolar Disorder?
Though broadcasting, thought insertion, & thought withdrawal
What are three specific delusions in schizophrenia?
Accumulation of neurofibrillary tangles, senile plaques (AKA beta-amyloid plaques), cerebrocortical atrophy and acetylcholine deficiency (important for memory)
What are characteristics of Alzheimer’s Disease?
Transient, usually reversible, cause of cerebral dysfunction. Can be a hyperactive or hypoactive state
What is delirium?
Chronic illness of persistent intrusive and inappropriate thoughts that include activities or rituals are used to neutralize the thoughts and reduce anxiety.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
SSRI
What is a common first line medication to treat depression?
Most common psychiatric condition affecting children in the US?
What is Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder?
What are risk factors for Alzheimer’s Disease?
Medications, electrolyte disturbances, metabolic abnormalities, sleep deprivation, surgery
What are causes of delirium?
A specific type of anxiety disorder in response to a highly stressful event(s) that includes flashbacks, insomnia, hyperarousal, and hypervigilance.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
What needs to be ruled out before a diagnosis of major depressive disorder?
A paradoxical way to increase attention, while reducing hyperactivity, impulsivity, restlessness.
What is Ritalin?
Caused by small strokes or large stroke preceded by smaller strokes
What is vascular dementia?
Baseline level of cognitive function must be known?
What is needed to diagnose delirium?