Bipolar Disorder
This type of bipolar disorder includes manic episodes lasting at least 7 days or manic symptoms so severe that immediate hospital care is needed.
What is Bipolar I Disorder?
Schizophrenia typically presents in this age range for men.
What is the late teens to early twenties?
This type of delusion involves a false belief that others are plotting against, spying on, or trying to harm the individual.
What is a persecutory delusion?
This is the most commonly used illicit drug in the United States.
What is marijuana?
This is the term for a false belief that is resistant to reason or contrary evidence.
What is a delusion?
This is a mood stabilizer commonly prescribed to treat bipolar disorder.
What is Lithium?
This symptom of schizophrenia involves hearing voices or seeing things that aren’t there.
What is hallucinations?
A brief psychotic disorder may last up to this amount of time.
What is less than 1 month?
This medication is used in opioid overdose situations to reverse respiratory depression.
What is naloxone (Narcan)?
This type of medication is primarily used to treat psychotic disorders by affecting neurotransmitters in the brain.
What are antipsychotics?
This phase of bipolar disorder is characterized by feelings of sadness, fatigue, and decreased interest in activities.
What is the depressive phase?
A patient with schizophrenia may show reduced emotional expression, also known as this type of symptom.
What are negative symptoms?
A primary characteristic of dissociative disorders is the inability to recall important personal information, often due to this cause.
What is trauma or stress?
This term is used to describe the unpleasant physical symptoms that occur when a person stops using an addictive substance.
What is withdrawal?
This medication, commonly used as a mood stabilizer in bipolar disorder, requires careful dose titration to reduce the risk of a severe skin reaction.
What is Lamictal (lamotrigine)?
Rapid cycling in bipolar disorder is defined by experiencing how many mood episodes per year?
What is four or more episodes?
This symptom of schizophrenia involves speaking in rhyming or similar-sounding words that don’t necessarily make sense together.
What is clang association?
This term refers to the persistent feeling of being detached from one's body or mental processes.
What is depersonalization?
Chronic alcohol abuse can lead to this condition, characterized by confusion, memory problems, and coordination issues due to a lack of thiamine.
What is Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome?
This neurotransmitter is thought to play a significant role in the positive symptoms of schizophrenia.
What is dopamine?
The therapeutic blood level of lithium should be between these two values to be effective and safe.
What is 0.6 to 1.2 mEq/L?
This type of thought disorder in schizophrenia involves inventing new words or phrases that only have meaning to the individual.
What is neologism?
This type of delusion is when someone believes they have exceptional abilities, wealth, or fame.
What is grandiose delusion?
This medication is often used to reduce cravings in people with alcohol use disorder.
What is naltrexone?
This class of antipsychotics is associated with a higher risk of extrapyramidal side effects, while this newer class tends to have a lower risk of these motor symptoms but may increase the risk of metabolic side effects.
What are first-generation antipsychotics (e.g., haloperidol) and second-generation antipsychotics (e.g., clozapine)?