Personality & Psychotic Disorders
Schizophrenia, Delusional Disorder, and Brief Psychotic Disorder are examples of this group of disorders.
What are Psychotic Disorders?
A group of mental disorders characterized by feelings of anxiety and fear. Anxiety is a worry about future events and fear is a reaction to current events
What is an Anxiety Disorder?
A category of mental health disorders that primarily affect learning, memory, perception, and problem solving, and include amnesia, dementia, and delirium.
What is a cognitive disorder?
Name 3 symptoms of schizophrenia
List of possible schizophrenia symptoms:
- delusions (false beliefs)
- hallucinations
- disorganized speech/thinking
- speech/movement difficulty
- negative symptoms (depression, anhedonia, decrease in motivation)
46% of all suicides are committed by people with this?
What are mental illnesses/disorders?
This mental disorder is characterized by a worsening of mood and exhibiting symptoms of depression during specific months
What is Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)?
How do Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa differ?
Anorexia nervosa has symptoms which restrict the act of eating, while bulimia nervosa has symptoms of purging after eating.
These are the model organism for studying Parkinson's disease.
What are MPTP mice?
(mice/rats are an acceptable answer)
Are anxiety disorders genetic or environmental?
Both!
This disorder is commonly found in adolescence and is characterized by the routinely regurgitation of food. Often, the individual does not experience anxiety while regurgitating the food.
What is rumination disorder?
A Cognitive Disorder in which there is a sudden loss of memories, such as facts, information and experiences.
What is Amnesia?
A Personality Disorder in which the individual demonstrates a pervasive preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control
What is Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder?
- Doing breathing exercises
- Consulting a mental health specialist
- Listening to music
- Writing in a journal
- Tell yourself positive affirmations
What are ways to deal with stress?
What is the most common and effective treatment for anxiety disorders?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
This disease is characterized by the child/adolescent having antisocial behaviors.
What is Conduct Disorder?
State the difference between schizophreniform and schizoaffective disorders.
Schizoaffective disorder affect mood as well (e.g. mania, depression) and schizophreniform disorder has the symptoms of schizophrenia for a shorter duration (1-6 months)
Name three ways to improve mental health:
- Managing stress
- proper exercise
- maintaining circadian rhythm
- having a proper diet
- improve social connections
This disorder is characterized by children and adolescents which experience ongoing irritability, anger, and frequent, intense temper outbursts
What is Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder?
This disorder is characterized as the individual being an extremely selective eater (taste/texture/etc.) and sometimes having little interest in eating food. They may eat a limited variety of preferred foods, which can lead to poor growth and nutrition.
What is Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID)?