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Mental impairments that cause the person to loose touch with reality =
Psychotic disorders
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Anxiety and personality disorders are __ disorders.
Non-psychotic
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A persistence untrue belief =
delusion
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Perceiving something that is not really there =
hallucination
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Illogical or unrelated responses to questions =
disorganized speech
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Poor goal directed behavior and personal hygiene =
disorganized behavior
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Deficit of emotion or facial expression =
flattened affect
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Inability to experience pain or pleasure =
anhedonia
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Profound detachment =
autism
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Small vocabulary, echolalia, and perseveration =
poverty of thought and speech
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Meaningless repetition of a word or phrase =
echolalia
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Excessive repetition of a word or phrase =
perseveration
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Schizophrenia, Major depression, and Bipolar disorder are what kind of abnormalities?
neuroanatomic & neurotransmitter
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Excess dopamine, or excess dopamine receptors
Schizophrenia
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Low serotonin, small hippocampus, or overabundant stress hormones
Major depression
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M’s include any or all psychotic disorders =
Schizophrenia
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Anhedonia, dysphoria, restless, irritable, and impaired concentration or cognition (M’s of)
Major depression
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Impaired judgment, appetite, and sleep; hallucinations, and delusions (M’s of)
Mania a/w Bipolar disorder
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Anti-depressants a/w =
Serotonin
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Anti-psychotics a/w =
Dopamine
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“Rev-up” stress hormone =
norepinephrine
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“Quiet-down” stress hormone =
cortisol
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Part of brain responsible for emotions =
Amygdala
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Part of brain responsible for executive and higher function =
Frontal lobe
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Uncontrollable worry that is pervasive and persists for at least a month (M’s of)
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
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Ritualistic behaviors that person feels must be performed anxiety relief (M’s of)
compulsion
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Thoughts, impulses, or images that persist and recur =
obsession
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Abnormal basal ganglia-frontal circuits, and high glucose metabolism in prefrontal cortex =
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
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Anxiety or terror a/w a perceived threat, intense autonomic response symptoms (M’s of)
Panic disorder
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Instability of mood, behavior, relationships, and self-esteem (C’s of)
Borderline personality disorder
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Life is in a constant state of crisis, history of childhood trauma/crisis =
Borderline personality disorder
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Thoughts or action of suicide or self-harm, searching to be rescued by others (M’s of)
Borderline personality disorder
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Profound trauma as a child, now demonstrates total disregard for others and the law (C’s of)
Antisocial personality disorder
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Lack of remorse, concern or empathy; often charming and laid back; dishonest and deceitful (M’s of)
Antisocial personality disorder
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