Eponymous Disorders
This neurodegenerative disorder, characterized by tremors and rigidity, is named after the British apothecary who wrote "An Essay on the Shaking Palsy."
What is Parkinson’s Disease?
This element, #3 on the periodic table, is a gold-standard mood stabilizer for Bipolar Disorder.
What is Lithium?
This Philadelphia physician, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, is known as the "Father of American Psychiatry."
Who is Benjamin Rush?
In the DSM, "MDD" stands for this common mood disorder.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
This mechanism involves refusing to accept reality or a fact as if a painful event did not exist.
What is Denial?
Named after a French psychiatrist, this "illusion of doubles" involves the belief that a person has been replaced by an identical impostor.
What is Capgras Syndrome?
Fluoxetine, the first blockbuster drug of its class, is better known by this brand name.
What is Prozac?
Established in 1751, this Philadelphia institution was the first hospital in the colonies to treat the mentally ill in a dedicated ward.
What is Pennsylvania Hospital?
This "Cluster B" personality disorder is characterized by grandiosity, excessive need for admiration and a lack of empathy.
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
This is the act of attributing one's own unacceptable thoughts or feelings to another person.
What is Projection?
This syndrome involves the belief that one is dead, decomposing, or has lost their internal organs.
What is Cotard’s Syndrome?
MAOIs, an older class of antidepressants, require a diet low in this amino acid found in aged cheeses and wine.
What is Tyramine?
This Philadelphia psychiatrist is considered the father of "Structural Family Therapy," developed while he was director of the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic.
Who is Salvador Minuchin?
To be diagnosed with Tourette's, a patient must have both vocal and these types of physical tics.
What are Motor tics?
A mature defense mechanism where "unacceptable" impulses are channeled into socially acceptable activities, like boxing to manage anger.
What is Sublimation?
This condition, often seen in chronic alcoholism, involves a memory deficit and confabulation; it’s named after a Russian neuropsychiatrist.
What is Korsakoff Syndrome?
This life-threatening reaction to antipsychotics is characterized by "lead-pipe" muscle rigidity and high fever.
What is Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome (NMS)?
In 1844, thirteen superintendents met in Philadelphia to form the "Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane," the precursor to this modern organization.
What is the American Psychiatric Association (APA)?
The DSM replaced the term "Multiple Personality Disorder" with this name in 1994.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)?
When a person reverts to a more childlike state of development under stress.
What is Regression?
This rare disorder, where a patient believes people are changing their appearance like actors, is named after a 20th-century Italian actor.
What is Fregoli Delusion?
Benzodiazepines work primarily by enhancing the effect of this inhibitory neurotransmitter.
What is GABA?
This Philadelphia neurologist famously developed the "Rest Cure" for "nervous exhaustion" (neurasthenia), later criticized by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Who is S. Weir Mitchell?
This is the specific duration (in months) required for a diagnosis of Schizophrenia.
What is six months?
This "higher level" defense involves dealing with emotional conflict by emphasizing the amusing or ironic aspects of the situation.
What is Humor?