Depressive Disorders
At least one of these two symptoms must be present in order to make a diagnosis of a Major Depressive Episode
What are depressed mood or anhedonia?
These recurrent thoughts, urges or images are experienced as intrusive and unwanted, and cause distress or anxiety for the patient
What are obsessions?
Fear of spiders and fear of needles are two examples of this common anxiety disorder
What is Specific Phobia?
She is the founder of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy.
Who is Marsha Linehan?
This personality disorder includes “strange beliefs or magical thinking that influences behavior and is inconsistent with subcultural norms”
What is Schizotypal Personality Disorder?
This category of drugs are known to cause substance-induced depressive disorder, in the context of withdrawal, particularly after a period of regular usage of higher doses
What are Stimulants?
In patients with OCD, this is the most common comorbid mood disorder
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
My condition causes me to have a surge of intense fear that peaks within minutes. During this time, I experience shortness of breath, heart palpitations, sweating, and nausea. I've started to have anticipatory anxiety. I was diagnosed with this disorder.
What is Panic disorder?
This was the first antipsychotic introduced.
What is Chlorpromazine?
This personality disorder cannot be diagnosed in individuals under the age of 18
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
This cyclic mood disorder is believed to afflict about 1.3% of adult women in the United states
What is Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder?
Introduced in 1989 by Wayne Goodman and colleagues, this tool is used extensively in research and clinical practice to both determine the severity of OCD, as well as to monitor improvement during treatment
What is Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS)?
This is the minimum duration of time required for a diagnosis of Generalized Anxiety Disorder
What is six months?
This was the decade that the first DSM was first published
What are the 1950s?
History of separation anxiety disorder is a risk factor for the development of this personality disorder
What is Dependent Personality Disorder?
This condition is most likely to be diagnosed in children who have severe, recurrent temper outbursts which occur, on average, 3 or more times a week. Their mood is persistently irritable. The onset of this condition must be before the age of 10.
What is Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder?
This treatment is considered first line for Hoarding Disorder.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
This anxiety disorder usually has the age of onset before 5 years
What is Selective mutism?
The first case report of this SSRI was published in 1974
What is fluoxetine?
Mindfulness and Emotion Regulation are two modules of Dialectical Behavioural Therapy. These are the other two.
What is Distress Tolerance and Interpersonal Effectiveness?
According to the DSM-5, the presence of this particular symptom, above and beyond what might be expected in grief after a significant loss, would suggest the presence of a Major Depressive Episode.
What are Feelings of Worthlessness?
This controversial diagnosis in children is characterized by a sudden onset of obsessions, compulsions, and/or tics, or by a variety of acute neuropsychiatric symptoms. It is thought to be associated with Group A streptococcal infection.
What is PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal infections)?
The DSM-5 describes this culture-bound syndrome as being the fear that the individual makes OTHER people uncomfortable. It is commonly described as a form of social anxiety disorder.
What is Taijin kyofusho?
This neurologist was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1949 for “for his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses.”
Who is Antonio Egas Moniz?
This psychoanalyst viewed the grandiosity and exploitation seen with narcissistic personality disorder as a result of emotional deprivation caused by an indifferent and spiteful parent.
Who is Otto Kernberg?