Diagnoses
This disorder can have symptoms such as depressed mood, anhedonia, weight changes, sleep dysregulation, loss of energy, and suicidal ideation over a 2-week period.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
This drug class is commonly used to treat depressive disorders, can cause side effects such as GI upset and sexual dysfunction, and increased suicidality, and therapeutic effects can take up to 6-8 weeks.
What are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)?
This is a range of expressed emotions and can be described as flat, blunted, constricted, full or labile.
What is affect?
Also known as the nerve cell, there are approximately 100 billion in the brain.
What is a neuron?
This is an acute confusional state characterized by rapid onset, disturbance in consciousness, disorientation, memory deficits, etc and can be caused by infections, metabolic imbalances, drug or alcohol withdrawal, and a variety of other reasons.
What is delirium?
This disorder has symptoms of delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior, or negative symptoms during a 1-month period.
What is schizophrenia?
When taking medications in this drug class, patients must avoid foods with tyramine such as aged cheese, meats, caffeine and alcohol, in order to avoid hypertensive crisis?
What are monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs)?
This type of thought process is described as continuous, rapid, unconnected ideas, and does not answer the question.
What is flight of ideas?
This neurotransmitter is linked in reward seeking behaviors and is linked in some mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, ADHD, and addiction?
What is dopamine?
This type of grief can happen when the patient has sufficient time to think about what the loss will be like.
What is anticipatory grief?
This disorder is characterized by at least one lifetime episode of mania followed by hypomania or major depressive episodes.
What is bipolar 1 disorder?
This drug is commonly used for aversion therapy for alcohol addiction.
What is antabuse (disulfram)?
With this type of psychotic symptom, the patient believes that others can hear their thoughts.
What is thought broadcasting?
This neurotransmitter is responsible for slowing the activity of the nerve cells, is associated with impacting anxiety, seizures, and agitation, and plays a role in the sedative effects of benzodiazepines, barbiturates, and alcohol?
What is GABA?
This supplement can be used to help treat mild depression but interacts with a large number of medications.
What is St John's Wort?
This disorder is characterized by labile, unregulated emotions, impulsivity, self-destructive behavior, feelings of emptiness, splitting behaviors and maladaptive coping mechanisms.
What is borderline personality disorder?
This drug can be used in the treatment of alcohol withdrawal or opioid withdrawal.
What is naltrexone (vivitrol)?
Another word for long term memory.
What is remote memory?
This dopamine pathway is also known as the reward pathway, and too much dopamine in this pathway leads to positive symptoms for schizophrenia.
What is the mesolimbic pathway?
The loss of purposeful movement in the absence of motor/sensory impairment.
What is apraxia?
This disorder is characterized by extreme shyness, fear of rejection or disapproval in social situations.
What is avoidant personality disorder?
The drug class is commonly used to treat the positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia and has fewer neuromuscular side effects but has more metabolic side effects.
What are second generation antipsychotics?
With this psychotic symptom, the patient believes that irrelevant stimuli has a direct personal meaning.
What are ideas of reference?
This dopamine pathway, known as the endocrine pathway, regulates the release of prolactin and dysregulation can cause effects such as amenorrhea, gynecomastia, or galactorrhea.
What is the tuberoinfundibular pathway?
This drug class can be used in elderly patients to help with symptoms of aggression but has a black box warning for increased risk of death in elderly patients with dementia related psychosis.
What are antipsychotics?