Pharmacology
Pathology
Neurotransmitters
Therapy
Famous People
100
Antipsychotic medication absorbed primarily through oral mucosa
What is asenapine (saphris)?
100
Neurocognitive disorder where patients are more likely to develop extrapyramidal side effects from antipsychotics.
What is Lewy Body Dementia
100
Activation of this receptor is thought to be responsible for the anti-anxiety, motor-impairing, and sedative hypnotic effects of alcohol
What is GABA-A receptor?
100
In cognitive psychology, the process by which a person's reaction to stimuli decreases with repeated presentation.
What is habituation?
100
American psychologist who is best known for his work on operant conditioning
Who is BF Skinner?
200
TCA found to be useful in long-term treatment and relapse prevention in OCD
What is clomipramine?
200
Disorder closely associated with hypocretin-1 deficiency
What is narcolepsy?
Hypocretin-1 or Orexin is a neuropeptide that regulates arousal, wakefulness, and appetite
200
This is where most of the body's serotonin is located
What is the GI tract?
200
unconscious defense mechanism employed by the ego to keep disturbing or threatening thoughts from becoming conscious
What is repression?
200
In 1965, this psychologist designed the Strange Situation Procedure as a way of assessing individual differences in attachment behavior by evoking individual's reaction when encountering stress.
Who is Mary Ainsworth?
300
Heavy smoking is most likely to affect the dosing of these two antipsychotic medications
What are olanzapine and clozapine?
Smoking induces CYP1A2 activity- decreasing doses of these medications. If patient stops smoking this can increase blood levels of these medications
300
Culture bound syndrome seen in Latin American and Latin Mediterranean cultures, associated with a sense of being out of control, uncontrollable shouting, trembling, crying, heat in the chest rising to the head, and fainting or seizure-like episodes, and somewhat resembles panic disorder.
What is ataque de nervios?
300
Neurotransmitter systems that directly regulates impulsive or affective aggression
What is serotonergic system?
300
Specialized therapy that focuses on providing psychoeducation, validating the patient's emotional vulnerability and encouraging change.
What is DBT?
300
The first psychologist to postulate that personality developed over a lifetime, eschewing Freud’s psychosexual theory of development. His eight-stage theory posited a conflict each person must overcome in order to continue the developmental process.
Who is Erik Erikson?
400
SSRI that has the best risk-benefit ratio in treating MDD in youth
What is fluoxetine?
400
Delusion in which a patient confides to psychiatrist that an identical-appearing impostor has replaced their loved one
What is Capgras delusion?
The delusion most commonly occurs in individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia but has also been seen in brain injury, dementia with Lewy bodies, and other dementias.
400
NT whose receptors are downregulated in the ventral striatum in individuals with persistent pain
What is dopamine?
400
A cognitive distortion where the importance of a problem is exaggerated, or the worst possible outcome is assumed to be true.
What is catastrophizing?
400
He popularized the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior, especially as they pertained to the study of depression. He created one of the most popular depression assessment instruments.
Who is Aaron Beck?
500
Most common side effect of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors?
What is diarrhea?
500
1 in 4 individuals born with 22q11.2 deletion develop this psychiatric disorder
What is schizophrenia?
500
Enzyme that is rate limiting step in the synthesis of dopamine.
What is tyrosine hydroxylase?
500
a type of mindful psychotherapy that helps you stay focused on the present moment and recognize/affirm thoughts and feelings without judgment.
What is ACT?
500
This Swiss psychiatrist coined the term schizophrenia in 1908.
Who is Eugen Bleuler?