2024 PRITE Exam review 100%
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Contralateral leg weakness with sparing of the face and arm associated with urinary incontinence
and abulia are typical for what kind of stroke?
- Basilar
- Carotid
- Middle cereberal
- Anterior cerebral
- Posterior cerebral - ANSWERAnterior cerebral
abulia = lack of initiative
Effects of posterior cerebral stroke - ANSWERvisual field deficits (hemianopia)
sensory deficits
The impaired physician who fails to obtain or benefit from treatment may require the services of an
administrative psychiatrist skilled in performing fitness for duty evaluations. In these situations, the
admin psych:
-serves as a patient advocate
- has the authority to administer necessary treatment
- may assist the physician with professional obligations
- is not bound by the usual parameters of confidentiality
- may not respond to the physician's questions concerning diagnosis or treatment. - ANSWERis not
bound by the usual parameters of confidentiality
WHich of the following is the most common with anxiety disorder?
- mood disorder
- personality disorder
- another anxiety disorder
- susbstance abuse disorder
- impulse use disorder - ANSWERanother anxiety disorder
Schizotypal B criteria five or more of: - ANSWER1. Ideas of reference (excluding delusions of
reference)
, 2. Odd beliefs or magical thinking that influences behavior and is inconsistent with sub cultural
norms (superstitious, belief in clairvoyance, telepathy, or "sixth sense"; in children and adolescents,
bizarre fantasies or preoccupations).
3. Unusual perceptual experiences, including bodily illusions.
4. Odd thinking and speech ( vague, circumstantial, metaphorical, over elaborate, stereotyped)
5. suspiciousness or paranoid ideation.
6. inappropriate or constricted affect
7. Behavior or appearance that is odd, eccentric, or peculiar.
8. Lack of close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives
9. Excessive social anxiety that does not diminish with familiarity and tends to be associated with
paranoid fears rather than negative judgement about self.
Which of the following distinguishes empathy from identification?
- establishing rapport
- retaining objectivity in the relationship
- experiencing what the patient is feeling
- understanding what the patient is feeling
- being able to put oneself in the patient's place - ANSWERretaining objectivity in the relationship
empathy- intellectual identification of the thoughts, feelings, or state of another person
identification-
What is the purpose of digit span (repeating sequence forward and backwards)? - ANSWERforward
span = attention efficiency and capacity
backward span = executive task dependent on working memory.
__________________ hormone is released during slow-wave sleep - ANSWERgrowth hormone
Difference between cortical and subcortical dementia in early stage cognitive impairment? -
ANSWERsubcortical = preserved calculation skill
What is subcortical dementia? - ANSWERDamage to thalamus, basal ganglia, or brain stem nuclei
Parkinson's dz
Huntington's- caudate
Wilson's disease- putamen + globus pallidus
Encephalitis Lethargica (basal ganglia)
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Contralateral leg weakness with sparing of the face and arm associated with urinary incontinence
and abulia are typical for what kind of stroke?
- Basilar
- Carotid
- Middle cereberal
- Anterior cerebral
- Posterior cerebral - ANSWERAnterior cerebral
abulia = lack of initiative
Effects of posterior cerebral stroke - ANSWERvisual field deficits (hemianopia)
sensory deficits
The impaired physician who fails to obtain or benefit from treatment may require the services of an
administrative psychiatrist skilled in performing fitness for duty evaluations. In these situations, the
admin psych:
-serves as a patient advocate
- has the authority to administer necessary treatment
- may assist the physician with professional obligations
- is not bound by the usual parameters of confidentiality
- may not respond to the physician's questions concerning diagnosis or treatment. - ANSWERis not
bound by the usual parameters of confidentiality
WHich of the following is the most common with anxiety disorder?
- mood disorder
- personality disorder
- another anxiety disorder
- susbstance abuse disorder
- impulse use disorder - ANSWERanother anxiety disorder
Schizotypal B criteria five or more of: - ANSWER1. Ideas of reference (excluding delusions of
reference)
, 2. Odd beliefs or magical thinking that influences behavior and is inconsistent with sub cultural
norms (superstitious, belief in clairvoyance, telepathy, or "sixth sense"; in children and adolescents,
bizarre fantasies or preoccupations).
3. Unusual perceptual experiences, including bodily illusions.
4. Odd thinking and speech ( vague, circumstantial, metaphorical, over elaborate, stereotyped)
5. suspiciousness or paranoid ideation.
6. inappropriate or constricted affect
7. Behavior or appearance that is odd, eccentric, or peculiar.
8. Lack of close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives
9. Excessive social anxiety that does not diminish with familiarity and tends to be associated with
paranoid fears rather than negative judgement about self.
Which of the following distinguishes empathy from identification?
- establishing rapport
- retaining objectivity in the relationship
- experiencing what the patient is feeling
- understanding what the patient is feeling
- being able to put oneself in the patient's place - ANSWERretaining objectivity in the relationship
empathy- intellectual identification of the thoughts, feelings, or state of another person
identification-
What is the purpose of digit span (repeating sequence forward and backwards)? - ANSWERforward
span = attention efficiency and capacity
backward span = executive task dependent on working memory.
__________________ hormone is released during slow-wave sleep - ANSWERgrowth hormone
Difference between cortical and subcortical dementia in early stage cognitive impairment? -
ANSWERsubcortical = preserved calculation skill
What is subcortical dementia? - ANSWERDamage to thalamus, basal ganglia, or brain stem nuclei
Parkinson's dz
Huntington's- caudate
Wilson's disease- putamen + globus pallidus
Encephalitis Lethargica (basal ganglia)
