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Psychopharmacologic / Neuroscience
Foundations of Mental Health Care
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Question:
Which are more sedating? The pines or the drones?
Answer:
the pines
Question:
Adverse effect profile: EPS is seen more in?
Answer:
High potency Haloperidol
,Question:
Adverse effect profile: Weight gain and metabolic effects more often seen in?
Answer:
olanzapine & clozapine
Question:
Adverse effect profile: Hyperprolactinemia is seen more in?
Answer:
risperidone, paliperidone & FGAs
Question:
What is psychosis?
Answer:
Word to describe conditions that affect the mind, where there has been some
loss of contact with reality.
,Question:
What is a psychotic episode?
Answer:
A period of psychosis, where a person's thoughts a perceptions re disturbed
and then individual may have difficulty understanding what is real and what
is not.
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What is an illusion?
Answer:
A misrepresentation of a "real" sensory stimulus.
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What is a hallucination?
Answer:
the perception of an object or an event (in any of the 5 senses), in the absence
of external stimulus.
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What is a delusion?
Answer:
false beliefs based on incorrect inferences about reality
Question:
Schizophrenia DX:
Answer:
A. 2 or more of the following for at least a month (or longer) period of time
and at least one of them must be 1, 2, or 3.
1. Delusions
2. Hallucinations
3. Disorganized speech.
4. Grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior.
5. Negative symptoms such as diminished emotional expression.
Duration is signs of the disturbance for at least 6 month. This 6 month period
must include at least 1 month of sx that meet criterion A and may include
periods of prodromal or residual sx.
R/O bipolar with psychotic features.