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Psychopharmacology
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History
Diagnosis and Assessment
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Modern antidepressants (SSRIs) target this neurotransmitter, and use this mechanism.
What is serotonin, and reuptake inhibition.
100
Clinical shorthand uses these abbreviations: Hx, Sx, Dx, Rx, Tx
What are: Hx - history, Sx - symptoms, Dx - diagnosis, Rx - prescription, and Tx treatment?
100
These historical mental health facilities went through a series of reforms.
What are asylums?
100
This term describes having more than one disease or disorder, simultaneously.
What is comorbid?
200
These five neurotransmitters are targeted by modern psychopharmacology.
What are norepinephrine, dopamine, serotonin, GABA, and glutamate?
200
Groups of symptoms that "go together."
What is a syndrome?
200
Benjamin Rush, a US physician and signatory on the Declaration of Independence, argued that mental institutions should provide these four things.
What is "freedom, participation, choice, and safety" ?
200
The act of reviewing symptoms, behaviors, etc. to make a meaningful diagnosis and treatment plan.
What is assessment?
300
The goal of most medication prescriptions.
What is to bring the patient to a "treatable" level of consciousness?
300
This property is what makes a syndrome clinically significant.
What is "will not get better without treatment"?
300
This activist lobbied for the creation of the first generation of American mental asylums.
Who was Dorothea Dix?
300
The mental status exam considers six categories of information.
What are "appearance, behavior, perception, sensorium, judgement, thoughts"?
400
***DAILY DOUBLE*** This drawing of a neuron is labeled with five mechanisms that describe the mechanisms of psycho-active medications.
[drawings] 1. Stimulating neurotransmission, 2. Increasing receptivity/sensitivity, 3. Reuptake inhibition, 4. Changing electrical potential, 5. Reducing receptivity
400
This descriptor applies to symptoms that are likely to worsen over time, and may lead to death.
What is "morbid"?
400
Emil Kraepelin was a German psychiatrist best known for creating diagnostic nosologies. These two modern classifications systems are descended from his work.
What is the DSM-5 and the ICD-10?
400
The DSM gives this definition: “The development of emotional or behavioral symptoms in response to a stressor(s) occurring within three months of the onset of the stressor.”
What is adjustment disorder?
500
There are five types of psychotropic medications, each of which are used to treat certain kinds of disorders.
What are anxiolytics (anxiety), antidepressants (depression), mood stablizers (BPD), psychostimulants(ADD/ADHD), antipsychotics (psychosis)?
500
When reviewing a case study (e.g. Zelda), symptoms can be divided into these four categories.
What are Cognitive, Emotional, Behavior, and Physical?
500
This late 18th and early 19th century humane approach to mental health care combined ideas from psychiatry and religion, and was an early influence the asylum system in the United States.
What was 'moral treatment'?
500
At least three of these "four D's" are necessary for diagnosis.
What are 1.Distinct or deviant, 2.Distressful, 3.Dysfunctional, 4. Dangerous or deadly?