This patient fails to speak in certain venues where it is expected for them to speak.
What is selective mutism?
What is the timeline for acute stress disorder?
3 days-1 month, precedes PTSD
Benzodiazepine toxicity is treated with ____
What is flumazenil?
Pt presents with delusion, disorganized speech, negative symptoms for 4 months. What disorder is this?
What is schizophreniform?
This disorder is characterized by unstable self-image and relationships. Often report emptiness & suicidal ideation.
What is borderline personality disorder?
Conduct disorder often precedes this adulthood diagnosis
This drug has a key side effect of priapism
What is trazodone?
Pt presents with blunt affect. Reports distant relationships and preference to be solitary.
What is schizoid?
Pt presents with discomfort with the ACT of social interaction. They are often eccentric, have cognitive distortions, and have strange speech
What is schizotypal?
This is the 'terrible triad' of psychiatry
ADHD, OCD, & Tourette's
You have a patient with MDD who is really concerned about weight gain and sexual side effects. What is a good drug to put them on?
What is bupropion?
This pt presents with disregard for others and laws, and often denies remorse. Often labeled a 'sociopath'
What is antisocial personality disorder?
This patient reports severe fear speaking or performing in public places, may be concurrant with avoidant disorder
What is social anxiety?
This is the most commonly encountered psychiatric disorder
What is adjustment disorder?
What is the main sign of toxicity of an anti-suicidal drug used for BPD?
coarse tremor
Pt comes to you with complaint of wanting friends, but not knowing how. They are afraid of ridicule and rejection.
What is avoidant personality disorder?
Disorder that contains an absence of mood disorder for at least two weeks while keeping psychotic symptoms
What is Schizoaffective?
The only SSRI approved for OCD
What is fluvoxamine?
This drug used to treat BPD is an autoinducer & lessens effectiveness of oral contraceptives
What is Carbamazepine?
That pathophysiology of psychosis is an overabundance of dopamine in _____ and an underabundance in _______
What is mesolimbic (+ symptoms), mesocortical (- symp)?