Case Clues
This DSM-V Diagnosis requires symptoms to be present in 2 or more settings.
What is ADHD?
This is the most common value in a data set.
What is the mode?
Dementia characterized by personality change, attention deficits, impulsivity, affect lability, indifference, preservation and loss of executive function is associated with this area of the brain.
What is the frontal lobe?
Has an intoxication syndrome but is not a substance of abuse in the DSM-5.
What is caffeine?
Physical fights, theft, talking back to authority figures, and bullying are typical of this diagnosis.
What is conduct disorder?
In the global burden of disease study series, these disorders have the highest measurement of disability adjusted life years (DALYs).
What are depressive disorders?
This study type was used to follow rescue workers who were involved in 9/11 attacks over 10 years to assess their development of PTSD.
What is a cohort study?
This was developed in the 1980s to differentiate MDD from dementia and has been tested and validated to differentiate MDD from depression secondary to major medical disorders or Parkinson's.
What is the Geriatric Depression Scale?
Perceptual abnormality where hallucinogenic drugs cause moving objects to appear as a series of discrete and discontinuous images.
What is trailing?
A patient presents to clinic with h/o failure to thrive, obesity, hypogonadism, OCD and hyperphagia and concerns for this diagnosis.
What is Prader-Willi Syndrome?
According to the DSM-V, this is the length of time of sleep difficulty needed for the diagnosis of insomnia.
What is 3 months?
This change will improve the precision of a study if the study population has a high level of heterogeneity.
What is increasing the sample size?
DAILY DOUBLE!
This medication is most likely to slow the progression of vascular dementia.
This is a side effect common to both naltrexone and disulfiram.
What are elevated liver enzymes?
Most useful instrument to assess a non-verbal 3-year old who play alone in the corner stacking and unstacking blocks.
What is the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule or ADOS?
This is the number one preventable cause of death in the USA.
What is tobacco use disorder?
This statistical test is most appropriate for assessing the relationship between zip codes and the presence of bipolar disorder in a population.
What is a chi-square test?
In normal aging, this is the last cognitive ability to decline.
What is word knowledge?
A patient coming to your clinic previously used this substance prior to immigration from East Africa to assist with concentration and to stay awake.
What is khat?
A 20-month-old child repeatedly returning to their mother when playing with other children is demonstrating this.
What is rapprochement?
This mental illness carries the highest economic burden of chronic disability relative to its incidence and prevalence.
What is Schizophrenia?
This process is used to split a group of patients with obsessive-compulsive traits into groups based on their primary symptom in order to then analyze them for genetic polymorphisms.
What is a cluster analysis?
Earliest evidence of cell loss in patients with Alzheimer's Dementia occurs in this specific area of the brain.
What is the entorhinal cortex?
This is the maximum duration of PCP in the urine.
What is 8 days?
This age range of children is at the greatest risk for death resulting from child abuse.
What is age birth to 3 years?