DSM-V
The major distinguishing feature that separates bipolar 1 and bipolar 2 disease.
What is mania?
Catagory of first line medication for ADHD
What are Stimulants?
Maria, a 27 year old female, graduated law school and landed her dream job two years ago. After graduation, her friends noticed that she was extremely talkative and hyper—and seemed to never sleep. Then, she started feeling hopeless, fatigued, and indecisive. Despite undergoing two recent trials of antidepressants (sertraline and escitalopram), she has not experienced significant improvement. Although she has been able to maintain employment, and her finances are in order, she is miserable. Maria's symptom presentation is best aligned with what disorder?
What is bipolar II?
Unconscious psychological strategies people use to protect themselves from unacceptable thoughts and feelings that cause anxiety.
Introduced by Eli Lilly and Company in 1987, this antidepressant revolutionized the treatment of depression as the first selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) to hit the marker
What is fluoxetine (Prozac)?
Recognized as an aggravating factor but is not one of the diagnostic criteria for bipolar disorder.
What is anxiety?
First line classification of drugs for schizophrenia.
What are antipsychotics?
Janice grapples with fear of rejection and abandonment and an underlying insecurity about not being good enough. She has a history of impulsivity, aggression, and self-injurious behavior. At age sixteen, after an intense argument with her best friend, Sr. Rita attempted suicide by ingesting a bottle of pills. Janice's symptom presentation aligns best with what personality disorder
What is borderline personality disorder?
A phenomenon where someone directs feelings or desires related to an important figure in one's life toward someone who is not that person.
What is Transference?
What decade did the first SSRI start being prescribed?
What is the 1980s?
Symptoms of adjustment disorder must start within three months after the stressor and must go away within this amount of time.
What is six months?
The first line of medication for depression.
What is an SSRI?
When one experiences hallucinations, delusions, disorganization of speech and behavior that lasts less than a month.
What is a Brief Psychotic Disorder?
Two dimensions of attachment insecurity.
What are anxiety and avoidance?
Unlike other reuptake inhibitors (such as SSRIs and SNRIs), atypical antidepressants, which were first approved in 1989, specifically target what two transporters
What are norepinephrine and dopamine?
A trauma-related disorder that must last a minimum of 3 days and up to a month after experiencing the traumatic event.
What is Acute Stress Disorder?
First-line medication for generalized anxiety disorder?
What are SSRIs
A symptom seen among those with forms of psychosis that manifest as neurogenic motor immobility and stupor.
What is Catatonia?
A label given to a mechanism that is present across disorders.
What is a transdiagnostic process?
An inhibitory neurotransmitter involved in the pathology of schizophrenia.
What is dopamine?
Another name for dysthymia found in the DSM-V.
What is Persistent Depressive Disorder?
Type of medication that quickly reduces anxiety but can be highly addictive and impair short-term memory.
What are benzodiazepines?
Jim is a 38-year-old man with a history of criminal behavior, substance abuse, and impulsivity. He likes to exploit people's fears and insecurities after he figures out what they are. Jim most likely has what personality disorder
What is antisocial personality disorder?
Jack is so anxious that something catastrophic will happen that he does not leave the house.
What is an example of avoidance?
This efficacious tricyclic antidepressant was used to treat depression until SSRIs became the treatment of choice
What is Imipramine?