Delusions of grandeur
TskTsk Misc
Just say no
Depression and Pregnancy
To Blue or Die
100
A delusion where one denies ownership of a limb or an entire side of one's body (often connected with stroke).
What is Somatoparaphrenia?
100
The triad of bodily preoccupation, disease fear, and disease conviction is central to the diagnosis of. . .
What is hypochondriasis?
100
A patient comes in for a surgery and is recovering in the post-op area when he starts to develop tremors, autonomic instability, confusion, and agitation. He is given this medication.
What are benzodiazepines?
100
This SSRI has the most literature to support its safety during pregnancy
What is Fluoxetine (Prozac)?
100
The risk of relapse after one episode of depression.
What is 50%
200
A rare delusional misidentification syndrome in which a person experiences the delusion that he or she has a double with the same appearance, but usually with different character traits and leading a life of its own.
What is Doppelgänger syndrome or subjective doubles syndrome?
200
A neurological disorder characterized by the inability to recognize faces.
What is prosopagnosia?
200
An 18 yo college freshman is brought to the ED by his friends. They say he is normally happy and good-natured, but became unsually withdrawn and aloof a few hours after a football game. He complains of dry mouth and PE shows injected conjunctivae and tachycardia. He used this substance.
What is cannabis (marijuana)?
200
This SSRI is the first line choice for breastfeeding mothers.
What is Zoloft (sertraline)?
200
Name 2 types of sleep disturbance associated with Depression.
What is increased sleep with atypical depression, frequent awakenings, early morning awakening, decreased REM latency, increased REM density.
300
A disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a friend, spouse, parent, or other close family member has been replaced by an identical-looking impostor.
What is The Capgras delusion? (or Capgras syndrome) pronounced: kăh′grah The delusion most commonly occurs in patients diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and occurs more often in females. Capgras delusion is classified as a delusional misidentification syndrome, a class of delusional beliefs that involves the misidentification of people, places, or objects.
300
The percentage of patients who meet criteria for a psychiatric disorder that present with a somatic symptom as their chief complaint.
What is 50-75%?
300
These drugs have recently caused the CDC to release this statement: The "CDC does not know of a virus or condition that would reanimate the dead (or one that would present zombie-like symptoms)" despite releasing a Zombie Preparedness Guide in 2011.
What are bath salts?
300
Name a birth-defect associated with taking SSRIs during pregnancy.
What are Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension, Septal Defects, Anencephaly, Omphalocele, and Craniosynostosis?
300
Name 3 risk factors for Suicide
What are Psychiatric Disorders, Prior Suicide Attempts, Family History, Social History (Unemployment, widowed/divorced/separated individuals, financial/legal difficulties).
400
The belief that various people whom the believer meets are actually the same person in disguise.
What is Fregoli delusion? The condition is named after the Italian actor Leopoldo Fregoli, who was renowned for his ability to make quick changes of appearance during his stage act.
400
This mechanism leads to tardive dyskinesia in long-term antipsychotic use.
What is the up-regulation of dopamine receptors due to dopamine blockade?
400
A 37 yo M presents to ED complaining that “it hurts so bad all over, I think I’m dying.” He also reports diffuse muscle aches for the last couple of hours, abdominal cramps which started last night and have gradually increased in intensity, and persistent nausea. T 97.8F BP 144/102 P 88/min RR 16/min. PE shows sweating, thin man, clear nasal discharge, and dilated pupils.
What is heroin withdrawal?
400
What first trimester fetal malformation has been linked to paroxetine (Paxil)?
What are cardiac malformations?
400
Name 4 Major Categories of Psychiatric Diagnosis Associated with Suicide
What are Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Personality Disorders, Schizophrenia, Anxiety Disorders, Alcohol or other Substance Abuse Disorders
500
The belief that oneself is dead or does not exist; sometimes coupled with the belief that one is putrifying or missing internal organs
What is Cotard delusion or Walking Corpse Syndrome? The syndrome is named after Jules Cotard (1840–1889), a French neurologist. In one of his lectures, Cotard described a patient with the pseudonym of Mademoiselle X, who denied the existence of several parts of her body and her need to eat. Later she believed she was eternally damned and could no longer die a natural death. She eventually died of starvation.
500
Name 5 of the 9 criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder.
What are affect instability with rapidly shifting mood swings, chronic feelings of emptiness, impulsivity, identity disturbance, fear of abandonment, suicidal or parasuicidal behavior, patterns of intense and unstable relationships, inappropriate anger, and transient stress-related paranoia/psychosis
500
The criteria that make up the definition for substance abuse.
What is use of a substance leading to impairment or distress for at least 1 year with one or more of the following manifestations: 1) failure to fulfill obligations at work, school, home 2) use in dangerous situations 3) recurrent substance-related legal problems 4) continued use despite social or interpersonal problems due to substance use?
500
Rare occurrences of priapism are most frequently associated with the use of this psychiatric medicine.
What is trazodone?
500
Two major risk factors for Adolescent Suicide
What are being a victim of child abuse and having a parent who attempted/completed suicide.
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