Personality Disorders
A disorder characterized by a dull, flat affect and a lack of desire for close relationships.
What is the schizoid personality?
A personality pattern characterized by hostility, cynicism, drivenness, impatience, competitiveness, and ambition.
What is the Type A personality?
People with anorexia nervosa typically do this.
What is severely restricting calorie intake?
What is the approximate percentage of college students who are diagnosed with stimulant use disorder?
What is 10-15%
A person feeling pain in their whole hand that is not consistent with medical knowledge is said to have this.
What is glove anesthesia?
Grandiose sense of self-importance.
What is the cardinal symptom of narcissistic personality disorder?
A disorder in which a person feigns or induces physical symptoms, typically for the purpose of assuming the role of a sick person.
What is factitious disorder?
The peak age range for the development of anorexia nervosa is:
14-18 years of age.
This drug had both stimulating and hallucinogenic effects, and is used at "raves".
What is MDMA (ecstasy)?
The main distinction between anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa is this.
What is weight?
Non-suicidal self-harm is a feature of this disorder.
What is borderline personality disorder?
A person with a Type A or H personality is much more likely to be diagnosed with this medical pathology.
What is cardiovascular disease?
For people with bulimia nervosa, binge episodes produce feelings of:
What are guilt & depression?
This drug works by binding to GABA, thus inhibiting neural activation.
What is alcohol?
The main symptom of this disorder is high anxiety and preoccupation about obtaining a serious disease.
What is illness anxiety disorder?
This disorder is similar to social anxiety disorder.
What is avoidant personality disorder?
A psychological disorder in which people become excessively distressed, concerned, and anxious about bodily symptoms, in which pain is the predominant symptom that has no organic cause.
What is somatic symptom disorder, predominant pain pattern.
The main difference between binge eating disorder and the other eating disorders is that they do not do____.
What are compensatory behaviors?
Opioids decrease pain by attaching to these receptor sites.
What are endorphins?
People who suffer from this disorder are critical of weakness and fault in others, are unable to recognize their own mistakes, and are extremely sensitive to criticism by becoming hostile.
What is paranoid personality disorder?
The name for maladaptive personality traits that are consistent with the self and do not cause distress.
What is ego syntonic?
From a psychodynamic perspective, this occurs when people experience neurological, sensory, or motor deficits to unconsciously avoid traumatic memories and conflicts.
What is primary gain?
The levels of brain ______ are low in many people with depression and in eating disorders.
What is serotonin?
Women and Asians are more sensitive to the effects of alcohol due to a lower amounts of this enzyme that metabolizes alcohol.
What is alcohol dehydrogenase?
For a person to be diagnosed with bulimia nervosa (and not anorexia nervosa) they must do this?
What are binging and compensatory behaviors (purging)?