Schizophrenia
This substance should be avoided until adulthood due to increased risk of drug-induced psychosis.
What is Cannabis?
This term describes a bipolar illness when a patient suffers from at least four mood episodes within a 12 month period, separated by remission or switch in polarity.
What is rapid cycling?
The only schizophrenia disorder with a postpartum onset specifier.
What is Brief Psychotic Disorder?
Lithium, a first line bipolar disorder treatment, was part of the original formula for this popular soft drink brand.
What is 7-Up?
(Some people theorize that the 7 is a nod to lithium's atomic mass)
The French term describing shared psychotic disorder, where delusional beliefs are transmitted from one person to another.
What is Folie à deux?
These two 1850s French terms first categorized bipolar disorder as an illness.
What is "folie circulaire"/"folie à double forme"?
This antipsychotic is associated with a purple gray metallic rash over sun-exposed areas.
What is Chlorpromazine?
This medication that can rarely cause a serious rash helps PREVENT recurrence of mania but does NOT help with acute symptomatic relief.
What is lamotrigine?
In 1908, Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler coined the term "schizophrenia" (meaning "split mind") to replace Emil Kraepelin’s earlier Latin term, which mistakenly implied the disorder was an early-onset irreversible dementia.
What is Dementia Praecox?
This famous Greek philosopher was the first to characterize the two extremes of mood, "mania" and "melancholia".
Who is Hippocrates?
(He believed mania = excess of yellow bile and melancholia = imbalance of black bile.)