ADHD & Autism
This drug can cause GI upset, suicidal ideations, and liver failure.
What is Atomoxetine?
This brain pathway is used by readers to read familiar words that have been stored in long-term memory.
What is the ventral pathway?
For an accurate diagnosis of Schizoaffective Disorder, a patient must independently exhibit psychosis for this amount of time without a manic or depressive episode.
What is at least 2 weeks?
A hospitalized elderly woman develops acute confusion, fluctuating attention, disorganized thinking, and altered level of consciousness over the course of a day. She is experiencing this condition.
What is delirium?
A young boy experiences sudden episodes of rage roughly twice a week where he smashes furniture and screams at his family. These outbursts are completely out of proportion to any trigger. Between these episodes, his family describes his mood as pleasant and stable. This boy must be this age or older.
What is 6 years old? (Intermittent Explosive Disorder)
To be diagnosed with ADHD, symptoms must appear before this age.
What is age 12?
This is the specific type of cognitive behavioral therapy implemented in patients with OCD.
What is Exposure-Response Prevention Therapy?
For 2 months, a patient was hearing voices and lost her sexual drive and ability to experience reward and pleasure. She can be diagnosed with this.
What is Schizophreniform Disorder?
A 22-year-old female patient is experiencing orofacial dyskinesia, seizures, and psychosis. She is suffering from this condition.
What is Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis?
An 8-year-old girl began showing defiant behavior, irritability, and frequent temper tantrums approximately two months after her parents started a contentious legal separation. Her diagnosis is most likely this.
What is Adjustment Disorder?
Deficits in this pathway in children with autism underlie the social interaction impairments they experience.
What is the mesolimbic (reward) pathway?
Joe is speaking with his friend Sam. Joe struggles to follow Sam's train of thought. Sam has difficulties with syntax, using context in comprehension, and often includes unusual content in conversation. Sam suffers from this disorder.
What is Social Pragmatic Communication Disorder?
After starting an atypical antipsychotic medication, a man noticed significant weight gain and metabolic issues. He was most likely prescribed this drug.
What is Olanzapine?
An 70-year-old man is admitted for irritability and depression. Upon labs, he is noted to have macrocytic anemia. What labs should be ordered?
What are MMA and homocysteine?
What differentiates Conduct Disorder from Intermittent Episode Disorder is that Conduct Disorder episodes are this.
In patients with autism spectrum disorder, interests and behaviors are described respectively with these adjectives.
What are restricted (interests) and repetitive (behaviors).
This is the term for compulsively pulling out one's hair.
What is Trichotillomania?
A patient recently diagnosed with schizophrenia is emotionally withdrawn and leaving his apartment without deodorant and an unkempt beard. He is exhibiting this negative symptom.
What is avolition?
A patient with schizophrenia is started on dantrolene and stops their typical antipsychotic medication after experiencing increased CK levels, muscle rigidity, fever, and unstable vitals. They are experiencing this condition.
What is Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome?
Lower skin conductance and slower resting heart rate are physiological findings associated with this disorder.
What is Conduct Disorder?
This is the method of action of the ADHD drug that reduces the threshold for seizures and exacerbates tics.
What is NE-Dopamine re-uptake inhibition? (Bupropion)
Acute Dystonia, Tardive Dyskinesia, and Akathisia are symptoms of D2 blockade from antipsychotics of this brain pathway in schizophrenic patients.
Analgesia and horizontal nystagmus are associated with intoxication from this substance.
What is PCP?
Diagnosis of Oppositional Defiant Disorder requires that symptoms of anger and irritability with argumentative, vindictive, and defiant behavior toward authority figures lasts at least this amount of time.
What is 6 months?