Mental status exam
Diagnosis
Adverse effects and interactions
Atypicals
Potpourri
100
Indirect pattern of speech, delayed in reaching its goal because of excessive or irrelevant detail
What is circumstantiality?
100
Major difference between schizophreniform disorder and schizophrenia
What is duration of symptoms?
100
First-line treatment for an acute dystonic reaction
What is diphenhydramine (or benztropine) IM?
100
Atypical most likely to cause elevated prolactin levels
What is risperidone?
100
The delusion that an impostor has replaced others or oneself.
What is Capgras syndrome?
200
Pause between the interviewer's question, and the patient's answer
What is latency of response?
200
DSM-IV-TR subtype of schizophrenia associated with later age of onset, better prognosis, and less regression of mental faculties
What is the paranoid type?
200
Of risperidone or olanzapine, the one more likely to cause a hypotensive episode
What is risperidone?
200
Two atypicals frequently used in Parkinson's patients, due to their low EPS burden
What are clozapine and quetiapine?
200
Dysprosody is an abnormality of this
What is speech?
300
Words within a sentence have no logical connection to one another
What is word salad?
300
Other than delusions or hallucinations, one of the Criterion A symptoms of schizophrenia
What are negative symptoms, disorganized speech, or disorganized or catatonic behavior
300
Of the medications used in the CATIE trial, the one that caused the greatest degree of QTc prolongation
What is quetiapine?
300
Other than risperidone and paliperidone, the atypical antipsychotic most associated with akathisia
What is aripiprazole?
300
The rough oral dosage equivalence of 50 mg of IM chlorpromazine
What is 100 mg?
400
Poverty of speech or content
What is alogia?
400
To meet criteria for schizoaffective disorder, one of these two symptoms must be present for at least two weeks in the absence of prominent mood symptoms, during the same period of illness
What are delusions or hallucinations?
400
Of chlorpromazine, perphenazine, and pimozide, the one least likely to cause sedation
What is pimozide?
400
Two atypical antipsychotics with FDA-approved depot formulations
What are risperidone and olanzapine?
400
Antipsychotic-induced orthostatic hypotension is likely mediated by blockade of this receptor
What is alpha-1?
500
Imitative repetition of words or fragments of speech
What is echolalia?
500
Type of delusion that would disqualify a patient from a diagnosis of delusional disorder
What is a bizarre delusion?
500
In a patient at a therapeutic level of clozapine, the effect of administration of a transdermal nicotine patch on clozapine levels
What is no significant effect?
500
Three clinical situations in which clozapine would be indicated
What are significant risk factors for suicide, tardive dyskinesia, comorbid movement disorder, or multiple failed trials of antipsychotics?
500
First-line treatment for catatonia
What is a benzodiazepine?
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