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Neurology, Part II
Statistics & Psychological Testing
Genetics & Development
Psychotherapy
History of Psychiatry
100
Individuals with this disorder describe severe, intermittent, lancinating pain, involving the posterior tongue and pharynx, with radiation to deep ear structures. These events are often triggered by the swallowing of cold liquids or talking.
What is trigeminal neuralgia?
100
A child is shown a rat and does not react to it. The child is then shown a rat while, at the same time, a frightening noise is made. After a few pairings of the rat with the noise, the child exhibits signs of being fearful when the rat alone is presented. In terms of Pavlovian conditioning, the rat represents this type of stimulus.
What is conditioned?
100
A child with an IQ of 68 is most likely to exhibit adjustment issues and struggles during this stage of development. (infancy, toddlerhood, preschool, school-age, adolescence)
What is adolescence?
100
This psychotherapeutic term which describes the relationship between therapist and patient is most predictive of a positive psychotherapy outcome.
What is therapeutic alliance?
100
Explicit diagnostic criteria and the multiaxial system were first introduced in this edition of the DSM.
What is the DSM-III?
200
Either deficiency or extreme excess of this B vitamin may cause polyneuropathy.
What is Vitamin B6?
200
This psychological test is considered to be most useful to specifically evaluate concept formation with set shifting.
What is the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test?
200
The e2/e3 apolipoprotein E genotype is associated with a decreased incidence of this disease in older age.
What is Alzheimer disease?
200
Supporting and accepting a patient's defense mechanisms is the core tenet of this type of psychotherapy.
What is supportive psychotherapy?
200
Dr. Bob Smith, a surgeon incapacitated with substance use, and Bill Wilson, an individual seeking support for abstinence from alcohol while traveling on business, are the founders of this organization.
What is Alcoholics Anonymous?
300
This neurotransmitter is reduced in quantity, uptake, and turnover in spasticity.
What is GABA or Glycine?
300
This statistical measure could be used to determine how two independent variables in a study, such as depression and alcohol dependence, affect the frequency of the occurrence event, such as suicide.
What is Regression Analysis?
300
A child with moderate intellectual disability (mental retardation), deficits in visual-spatial processing, high levels of anxiety, a phobia, and who is highly sociable is most likely to have this genetic disorder, also described by a microdeletion on chromosome 7q11.23.
What is Williams Syndrome?
300
This dynamic psychotherapy term describes a set of feelings that a patient reenacts in the therapeutic relationship.
What is transference?
300
This famous document, named after the German town in which famous trials occurred after World War 2, outlined the principle that human subject consent is essential for ethically conducted research.
What is the Nuremberg Code?
400
This class of medication, which increases Na reuptake in the distal renal tubule, is useful in the management of orthostatic hypotension due to Parkinson disease.
What are mineralcorticoids (e.g. Fludrocortisone)?
400
A statistical technique called "last observation carried forward" aims to address the effects of participants doing this prior to completion of a study.
What is dropping out?
400
An individual over 65 years of age who has achieved a sense of satisfaction that life has been productive and worthwhile has successfully reached this psychosocial stage of development hypothesized by Erik Erikson.
What is integrity?
400
This specific type of psychotherapy, formally introduced into the Federal Dictionary of Occupational Titles by Dr. John Kappas in 1973, has demonstrated high efficacy for treating irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in controlled trials.
What is hypnosis or hypnotherapy?
400
This mood disorder lasting at least two years (DSM IV) was originally described as depressive neurosis in the DSM II.
What is dysthymic disorder?
500
This neurological emergency is shown in the computed tomography (CT) scan below.
What is subarachnoid hemorrhage?
500
This extensive battery of neuropsychological tests includes the Trail-Making Test, Tactual Performance Test, and Seashore Rhythm Test among others. It is named after a former chairman of the department of Psychology at the University of Chicago and his graduate student who helped to develop it.
What is the Halstead-Reitan Battery?
500
This describes the pattern of inheritance in Wilson's disease.
What is autosomal recessive?
500
The underlying principles for this specific psychodynamically-oriented psychotherapy for individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder is based on Bowlby's attachment theory.
What is mentalization-based therapy?
500
This individual is largely credited with first differentiating dementia praecox and manic-depressive illness?
Who is Emil Kraepelin?