Personality Clusters
This Cluster B disorder is characterized by a pervasive pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
This neuropeptide (also known as Orexin) is deficient in the CSF of patients with Narcolepsy Type 1.
What is Hypocretin?
Developed by Marsha Linehan, this therapy was originally designed for Borderline Personality Disorder and focuses on mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)?
The four generally accepted components of "Decision-Making Capacity" are Communicating a Choice, Understanding, Appreciation, and this
What is Reasoning or Rationale
This semi-autobiographical novel by Sylvia Plath details a young woman's descent into clinical depression and her experiences with ECT.
What is The Bell Jar?
While Schizoid Personality Disorder involves voluntary social withdrawal and a limited range of emotion, this Cluster A disorder includes cognitive distortions, magical thinking, and eccentricities of behavior.
What is Schizotypal Personality Disorder?
While Benzodiazepines help initiate sleep, they change sleep architecture by suppressing these two stages of sleep.
What are Stage N3 (Slow Wave Sleep) and REM?
In psychoanalytic theory, this occurs when a patient redirects feelings about a person from their past (e.g., a parent) onto the therapist
What is Transference?
A patient with an ovarian teratoma presents with psychosis, agitation, and autonomic instability. You should suspect this autoimmune condition.
What is Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis?
In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Lady Macbeth’s compulsive hand-washing ("Out, damned spot!") is a classic literary depiction of this symptom
What is a Compulsion (or Obsessive Guilt)?
Unlike OCD, which is ego-dystonic, this personality disorder involves a preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control, often at the expense of flexibility and efficiency, and is ego-syntonic.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD)?
This parasomnia, occurring during REM sleep, is often a prodromal sign of synucleinopathies like Parkinson’s Disease or Lewy Body Dementia
What is REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD)?
This form of conditioning (Skinner) involves increasing a behavior by removing an aversive stimulus (e.g., doing chores to stop a parent from nagging)
What is Negative Reinforcement?
In a patient with severe malnutrition (e.g., Anorexia Nervosa), rapid initiation of feeding can lead to this potentially fatal metabolic shift, characterized by hypophosphatemia
What is Refeeding Syndrome?
This Ken Kesey novel (and later film) features Nurse Ratched and Randle McMurphy, offering a critical critique of institutionalization and lobotomy.
What is "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"?
To diagnose Antisocial Personality Disorder, the individual must be at least 18 years old and have evidence of Conduct Disorder with onset before this age
What is Age 15?
Used to treat nightmares in PTSD, Prazosin works by blocking this specific receptor
What is the Alpha-1 Adrenergic Receptor?
Aaron Beck’s "Cognitive Triad" of depression involves negative views about these three things
What are: 1. The Self, 2. The World (or Environment), and 3. The Future?
This test involves asking a patient to draw a clock face set to "10 past 11" and is a sensitive screen for parietal lobe dysfunction and executive impairment.
What is the Clock Drawing Test?
In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield’s alienation, irritability, and intrusive thoughts about his brother Allie’s death are often interpreted as this disorder.
What is PTSD (or Pathological Grief/Depression)?
Individuals with this disorder often perceive relationships as being more intimate than they actually are, are uncomfortable when not the center of attention, and use physical appearance to draw attention to themselves
What is Histrionic Personality Disorder?
This rare disorder of hypersomnolence, often called "Sleeping Beauty Syndrome," presents with megaphagia (excessive hunger) and hypersexuality, primarily in adolescent males
What is Kleine-Levin Syndrome?
his brief, structured therapy for depression focuses on four problem areas: Grief, Role Disputes, Role Transitions, and Interpersonal Deficits
What is Interpersonal Therapy (IPT)?
Used to treat Catatonia, the "Lorazepam Challenge" typically involves administering this dose of IV Lorazepam.
What is 1mg to 2mg? (Looking for a robust dose, not 0.5mg).
This 1892 short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman depicts a woman’s descent into psychosis (likely postpartum) after being confined to a room for "rest cure."
What is "The Yellow Wallpaper"?