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This SSRI is FDA approved to treat OCD.
What is Fluvoxamine or Fluoxetine?
What other psychiatric disorder has a high co-morbidity with generalized anxiety disorder?
What is major depression?
What does the DSM stand for?
What is the the Diagnostic statistical manual of mental disorders?
You are interviewing a patient who starts giving unnecessary details.
What is circumstantial thinking?
Social Determinants of health determine this in a patient's life.
What is almost everything?
This antidepressant does not cause sexual side effects.
What are Trintellix or Viibryd?
This rating tool is used to follow the treatment response to anxiety.
What is the GAD-7?
A patient who reports their OCD symptoms as ego syntonic would probably be diagnosed with this disorder.
What is obsessive compulsive personality disorder?
Your patient is placing blame on another person. This is called what in the MSE?
What is Insight and Judgment?
This brain lobe is primarily involved in decision-making, planning and personality.
What is the frontal lobe?
What class of medications are considered the first line treamtent of generalized anxiety disorder?
What are SSRI and SNRI's?
This results from an unknown internal stimulus or inappropriate or excessive when compared to the external stimulus.
What is anxiety?
A patient who presents with anxiety must have the symptoms for how long before being diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder.
What are 6 months?
During the initial psychiatric interview, the PMHNP begins by asking this question.
What brings you here today or tell me about your current situation?
This is the primary function of the Thalamus.
Relays sensory information to the cerebral cortex?
This SSRI carries a risk QT prolongation, especially at higher doses.
What is citalopram?
These diagnoses are of disruptive fear of a particular object or situation.
What are phobias?
This is considered the median age for someone with generalized anxiety disorder.
What is 25-35 years old?
During a psychiatric exam, a patient with rapid thinking switching from one topic to another is known as what.
What is flight of ideas?
The autonomic nervous system is divided into which two branches?
What are the parasympathetic and sypathetic?
This serotonin modulator is associated with cognitive benefits in depression.
What is Trintellix/Vortioxetine
This diagnosis has similarities to shyness by is more extensive and intense.
What is social anxiety disorder?
In addition to prescribing an SSRI for your patient with generalized anxiety. You would also refer them to this type of therapy.
What is CBT?
These are the two components of the psychiatric exam.
What are the psychiatric history and mental status?
This neurotransmitter is inhibitory and is involved in anxiety regulation?
What is GABA