Schizophrenia
A cluster of symptoms including
delusions, hallucinations, and grossly
disordered thinking and behavior
What is psychosis?
Ingrained, enduring pattern of behaving and relating to self, others, and environment; perceptions, attitudes, emotions.
What is personality?
Sleep changes, interest loss (anhedonia), energy lack, guilt (worthless), concentration reduced, appetite change, psychomotor change, suicide ideation, or at least 5 of these.
What is major depressive disorder?
Progressive cognitive impairment, involving memory impairment with progressive deterioration that includes all cognitive functioning.
What is dementia?
Diaphoresis, fast heart rate, agitation/irritability, hands trembling, disorientation, and even seizures begin as soon as 12 hours and as late as 48 hours.
What is alcohol withdrawal?
This form of extrapyramidal symptom (EPS) presents with jerking or twitching, rocking or swaying, various tongue movements, rapid eye blinking, and/or cheek puffing.
What is tardive dyskinesia?
Avoidant personality disorder belongs to this "bunch," along dependent personality disorder and obsessive personality disorder; all based on anxious and fearful.
What is cluster C?
The I, G, and F in D.I.G.F.A.S.T.
What is irresponsibility/irritable/impulsive, grandiose, and flight of ideas?
Neurodevelopmental disorder first seen in childhood, conceptualized across a continuum with symptoms varying from mild to severe.
What is autism spectrum disorder?
Medication often used for patients going through alcohol withdrawal, helps with anxiety and reduces seizures.
What is lorazepam (Ativan)?
Chlorpromazine (Thorazine), Fluphenazine (Prolixin), and Haloperidol (Haldol).
What are conventional antipsychotics?
Seen often in patients with BPD when they see everything in "good" or "bad" extremes.
What is splitting?
Rapid shift from emotional extremes, often seen in mood disorders.
What is lability?
Inability to recognize or name objects despite intact sensory abilities.
What is agnosia?
To assess for alcohol withdrawal symptoms, this scale of 0-7 for ten measurements ranging from categories such as agitation to visual disturbances is used.
What is CIWA-AR assessment?
An excess of these neurotransmitters is thought to be the cause positive symptoms and/or negative symptoms.
What is dopamine and serotonin?
Characterized by pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of emotional expression in interpersonal setting; part of cluster A
What is schizoid personality disorder?
Considered the maintenance dose of lithium.
What is 0.5 to 1.5 mEq/L?
Neurotransmitter most involved with patients with Alzheimer's; neurotransmission is reduced, neurons are lost, and the hippocampal neurons degenerate.
What is acetylcholine?
Hydrocodone, heroin, morphine, and codeine, but NOT amphetamine.
What are opioids?
Seclusive to self, loner-type vs. being eccentric, odd beliefs, malignant, dresses weirdly.
What is schizoid vs. schizotypal?
Last line of pharmacology due to its issues with drug-drug interactions, used to treat atypical depression/dysphoria, severe anxiety, chronic cognitive and somatic disorders.
Period of abnormally and persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood and some other milder symptoms of mania.
What is hypomania?
Can be caused by sepsis, urinary tract infection, pneumonia, syphilis, electrolyte imbalances, alcohol withdrawal, sedation medications.
What is delirium?
Using inconsistent with medical or social norms; problems in social, vocational, or legal areas PLUS addiction issues like tolerance, withdrawal, and unsuccessful attempts at stopping use.
What is substance dependence?