Forensics
This landmark case established the "duty to warn" principle for psychiatrists.
Tarasoff (1974)
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This neuroanatomical anomaly is often grossly visible in brain scans of patients with schizophrenia.
Enlarged ventricles
Name a mature coping mechanism.
Altruism, Humor, Suppression, Sublimation, Anticipation all acceptable
True or False: The epigenome is heritable.
True
This rule from the APA states that is unethical for psychiatrists to offer a professional opinion about a public figure without examining them personally and obtaining consent.
Goldwater Rule
This stage of sleep is most likely to feature sleepwalking, bedwetting.
N3
This hypothalamic nucleus regulates the circadian rhythm.
Suprachiasmatic nucleus.
These brief, involuntary thoughts are identified and challenged in CBT.
Automatic thoughts
DNA is stored coiled around these proteins, in a "beads on a string" model.
Histones
Mr. Jacobs has been found comatose after a car accident without Advanced Directive. His mother, sister, wife, and son are all at bedside, all adults. Please describe the order in which Healthcare Surrogacy would be assigned among these family members.
Wife > Mother > Son > Sister
Benzodiazepines increase this stage of sleep.
N2 - light sleep
Name the four major dopaminergic pathways.
Mesolimbic, mesocortical, nigrostriatal, tubuloinfundibular
Name the three parts of the psyche in Freud's Structural Theory.
Ego, Superego, Id
This epigenetic mechanism leads to downregulation of genes by blocking access to DNA strands.
DNA methylation
What criteria must a patient satisfy to be legally competent?
1) Able to understand the charges against them
2) Able to understand court proceedings
3) Able to cooperate with defense
What lab test could be ordered for diagnosis in a patient with narcolepsy?
Hypocretin in CSF
These two structures make up the striatum of the basal ganglia.
Caudate nucleus and putamen
A woman with cancer feels nauseous every time she sees an ad for a chemotherapy center. Name the conditioned and unconditioned stimulus in this example.
Conditioned stimulus: The advertisement (would not normally provoke nausea)
This epigenetic mechanism leads to upregulation of genes by increasing the accessibility of DNA strands?
Histone acetylation
Name the four elements which must be met for a medical malpractice case.
1) Duty to Patient
2) Dereliction of Duty
3) Direct Causation of injury
4) Damages suffered by patient
Tirzepatide
Where does neurogenesis continue to occur in the adult brain?
Dentate gyrus (Hippocampus acceptable answer)
Name three of the seven baseline "Assumptions" about clients/patients in DBT.
1) Patients are doing the best they can at any given moment with the knowledge they have
2) Patients want to improve.
3) Patients need to do better, try harder, and be more motivated to change.
4) Patients may not have caused their problems, but they have to solve them anyways.
5) Patients must learn new behavior in all relevant contexts.
6) The lives of suicidal, borderline patients are unbearable as they are currently being lived.
7) Patients cannot fail in therapy.
This Syndrome is characterized by a silencing or deletion of the maternal chromosome 15, leading to intellectual/developmental disability and an unusually happy disposition.
Angelman Syndrome