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What emotional states are most associated with the locus ceruleus?
Anxiety is characterized by _____ serotonin
_____ may be used to treat parasomnias in children, such as sleep walking and night terrors
_____ disorder is a psychological trauma in response to life threatening situation (witnessing death, serious injury, or sexual violence)
First-line treatment for OCD includes _____ + SSRIs (preferred) or clomipramine (not preferred)
_____ is compulsively pulling out one's hair which causes significant distress but persists despite attempts to stop
What is the first line treatment for generalized anxiety disorder? _____
What is the treatment for acute stress disorder? _____
_____ syndrome is when the parents perceive the child as especially susceptible to illness or injury
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Flashcard 1: anxiety disorder
Answer:
Extra: increased: NE decreased: serotonin, GABA
Flashcard 2: What emotional states are most associated with the locus ceruleus?
Answer: stress, panic
Flashcard 3: Anxiety is characterized by _____ serotonin
Answer: decreased
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Flashcard 4: _____ may be used to treat parasomnias in children, such as sleep walking and night terrors
Answer: Benzodiazepines
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Flashcard 5: _____ disorder is a psychological trauma in response to life threatening situation (witnessing death, serious injury, or sexual violence)
Answer: Post-traumatic stress
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Flashcard 6: First-line treatment for OCD includes _____ + SSRIs (preferred) or clomipramine (not preferred)
Answer: CBT
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Flashcard 7: _____ is compulsively pulling out one's hair which causes significant distress but persists despite attempts to stop
Answer: Trichotillomania
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Flashcard 8: What is the first line treatment for generalized anxiety disorder? _____
Answer: CBT + SSRIs/SNRIs
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Flashcard 9: What is the treatment for acute stress disorder? _____
Answer: CBT
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Flashcard 10: _____ syndrome is when the parents perceive the child as especially susceptible to illness or injury
Answer: Vulnerable child
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Flashcard 11: Specific phobia is defined as severe, persistent fear or anxiety triggered by specific things, situations, or environments for _____
Answer: > 6 months
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Flashcard 12: First-line treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) includes _____ + SSRIs or venlafaxine
Answer: CBT
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Flashcard 13: By what age does an infant develop separation anxiety? _____
Answer: 9 months
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Flashcard 14: Importantly, to classify a patient as having Generalized Anxiety Disorder, symptoms do not meet the criteria for _____
Answer: major depressive disorder
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Flashcard 15: Clomipramine is a TCA that may be used in the treatment of _____ disorder
Answer: obsessive-compulsive
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Flashcard 16: Agoraphobia is associated with _____ disorder
Answer: panic
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Flashcard 17: Specific phobias can be treated with _____ therapy (a form of behavioral therapy)
Answer: systematic desensitization
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Flashcard 18: Long-acting _____ are useful in the treatment of alcohol withdrawal (if no cirrhosis or alcoholic hepatitis)
Answer: benzodiazepines
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Flashcard 19: Buspirone is primarily used to treat _____ disorder (2nd line)
Answer: generalized anxiety
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Flashcard 20: What symptoms of alcohol withdrawal occur during the 3 - 36 hour time period? _____
Answer: Non-specific depressant withdrawal symptoms
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Flashcard 21: _____ disorders include panic disorder, phobias, generalized anxiety disorder, and selective mutism
Answer: Anxiety
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Flashcard 22: By what age can a preschooler comfortably spend part of the day away from mother? _____
Answer: 3 years
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Flashcard 23: Insomnia can be treated in multiple nonpharmacologic ways; including _____ control therapy
Answer: stimulus
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Flashcard 24: The symptoms of panic attacks may be remembered with the mnemonic "PANICS": P: Palpitations, _____, dePersonalization A: Abdominal distress N: Nausea I: Intense fear of dying or losing control C: Chest pain, Choking, Chills S: Shortness of breath, Sweating, Shaking
Answer: Paresthesias
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Flashcard 25: Aphthous ulcers arise in relation to _____ and resolve spontaneously, however they often recur
Answer: stress
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Flashcard 26: Collapsing weakness is often evidence of _____ disorder
Answer: conversion
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Flashcard 27: What is the next step in management for that began with SSRI therapy for anxiety that developed worsening anxiety and insomnia? _____
Answer: Decrease the SSRI dose
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Flashcard 28: What is the most common reason patients are put on long-term benzodiazepines? _____
Answer: Insomnia
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Flashcard 29: Patients with _____ social anxiety disorder do not fear nonperformance social situations and are not socially avoidant
Answer: performance-only
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Flashcard 30: A(n) _____ is defined as an exagerrated, irrational fear that leads to endurance of the anxiety and/or avoidance of the feared object or situation
Answer: phobia
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Flashcard 31: Young children with PTSD, whose memories may not be fully consolidated, often have _____ that are not specific to any trauma, as well as repetitive traumatic themes in play and often struggle with _____
Answer: nightmares
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Flashcard 32: Difference in presentation of physical symptoms between somatic symptom disorder and panic disorder? _____
Answer: Somatic symptom disorder → physical symptoms persist over time Panic disorder → acute symptoms and do not persist between panic attacks
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Flashcard 33: What is the recommended treatment for a child with intermittent sleep terrors? _____
Answer: Reassurance
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Flashcard 34: Panic Disorder Treatments: Acute: _____ Long-Term: _____
Answer: Benzos
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Flashcard 35: In the postpartum period, how does obsessive-compulsive disorder commonly manifest? _____
Answer: Fears of contaminating and harming the baby
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Flashcard 36: Fear of public speaking is a performance subtype of a(n) _____ phobia
Answer: social
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Flashcard 37: In contrast to panic disorder, panic attacks in specific phobia are _____ and _____ occur unexpectedly
Answer: always triggered by the phobic stimulus
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Flashcard 38: Is anxiety disorder associated with specific phobias? _____
Answer: No
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Flashcard 39: What is the likely diagnosis in a child that is verbal and talkative at home but refuses to speak in specific social settings (e.g. school)? _____
Answer: Selective mutism
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Flashcard 40: _____ disorder is a childhood disorder characterized by overwhelming fear of separation from home or an attachment figure lasting > 4 weeks
Answer: Separation anxiety
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Flashcard 41: Chronic tension headache is defined by episodes occurring at least _____ days per month for more than _____ months
Answer: 15
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Flashcard 42: An abrupt awakening from NREM sleep with a sensation of chest tightness/choking is known as _____
Answer: nocturnal panic attacks
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Flashcard 43: What is the non-pharmacological treatment for trichotillomania? _____
Answer: CBT
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Flashcard 44: What is the treatment of choice for patients with alcohol withdrawal? _____
Answer: Benzodiazepines (e.g. lorazepam)
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Flashcard 45: Symptoms of anxiety can mimic a(n) _____
Answer: myocardial infarction
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Flashcard 46: What psychiatric condition is characterized by recurrent hair pulling resulting in hair loss with significant distress/impairment? _____
Answer: Trichotillomania
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Flashcard 47: _____ treatment is appropriate for patients with acute onset of severe insomnia and anxiety
Answer: Short-term benzodiazepine
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Flashcard 48: Psychogenic dyspareunia vs genitopelvic pain disorder? PD = _____ GPD = _____
Answer: pain during sexual intercourse that is not due to an underlying organic cause
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Flashcard 49: What psychiatric disorder is characterized by failure to resist uncontrollable urges to steal objects that are not needed for personal use or monetary value, with increasing tension immediately prior to the theft and pleasure or relief is experienced while stealing? _____
Answer: Kleptomania
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Flashcard 50: What is the first-line pharmacologic treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)? _____
Answer: SSRIs (i.e. sertraline)
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Flashcard 51: OCD = CBT and _____
Answer: SSRIs
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Flashcard 52: _____ are a type of fear response involving an abrupt surge of intense anxiety which may be triggered or occur spontaneously.
Answer: Panic attacks
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Flashcard 53: _____ amnesia is an inability to recall important personal information, usually subsequent to severe trauma or stress
Answer: Dissociative
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Flashcard 54: At what age does an infant typically develop separation anxiety? _____
Answer: 12 months
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Flashcard 55: In contrast to general anxiety disorder, patients with somatic disorder have _____
Answer: anxiety that specifically revolves around their somatic symptoms with the fear that they have a serious medical illness
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Flashcard 56: How long does acute stress disorder last? _____
Answer: Between 3 days and 1 month
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Flashcard 57: Young children with PTSD may have nightmares and repetitive _____ themes in play
Answer: traumatic
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Flashcard 58: Increased sensitivity to lactate infusion is associated with _____
Answer: panic attacks
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Flashcard 59: Flashbacks, avoidance with depressive mood and hypervigilance following traumatic event lasting > _____ is suggestive of PTSD
Answer: 1 month
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Flashcard 60: What is the first line treatment for performance-only social anxiety disorder? _____
Answer: CBT + pharmacotherapy
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Flashcard 61: What is the most effective nonpharmacological treatment for Tourette's syndrome? _____
Answer: Habit reversal training (a form of CBT)
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Flashcard 62: What is the preferred drug for treating performance-only social anxiety disorder? _____
Answer: Benzodiazepines or β-blockers
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Flashcard 63: Defense Mechanism? _____
Answer: Denial
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Flashcard 64: Treatment for trichotillomania? _____
Answer: Treat the compulsion; refer to psychiatry
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Flashcard 65: Patients with obsessive compulsive personality disorder are ego-_____, which means their behavior is consistent with their own beliefs or attitudes
Answer: syntonic
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Flashcard 66: Anxiety, sleep disturbances, ↑ LFTs and macrocytosis is suggestive of _____
Answer: alcohol use disorder
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Flashcard 67: _____ is the lack of interest and avoidance of eating based on the sensory characteristics of food, with typical onset in infancy or early childhood
Answer: Avoidant-Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)
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Flashcard 68: Patients with generalized anxiety disorder frequently come to their PCP with _____
Answer: somatic symptoms
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Flashcard 69: Exaggerated fear of > 2 situations due to difficulty escaping (open/closed/crowded places) lasting > 6 months is characteristic of _____
Answer: agoraphobia
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Flashcard 70: Recurring anxiety-provoking, intrusive thoughts relieved by repetitive behaviors (rituals) that causes distress is characteristic of _____
Answer: obsessive compulsive disorder
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Flashcard 71: Performance anxiety / public speaking = CBT and _____
Answer: β-blockers
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Flashcard 72: _____ headaches may arise during times of stress
Answer: Tension
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Flashcard 73: Between malingering, factitious, and somatic symptom disorders, which disease do patines have intentional symptoms and motivation? _____
Answer: Malingering
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Flashcard 74: Contamination = _____
Answer: cleaning
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Flashcard 75: How to distinguish trichotillomania w/ other diseases? _____ Diagnostics? _____
Answer: Pathy alopecia with hair regrowth at different lengths since the pt pulls out hairs at different time frames
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Flashcard 76: Can patients with ADHD sit still and avoid fidgeting? _____
Answer: Yes
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Flashcard 77: What are the treatments for body dysmorphic disorder? _____
Answer: CBT and SSRIs
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Flashcard 78: Is it normal if elderly patients are concerned about memory loss? _____
Answer: Yes
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Flashcard 79: Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing treatment is helpful for patients with _____
Answer: post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
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Flashcard 80: Patient compulsively pulls out hair one stand at a time. Dx? _____ This dx is highly associated with? _____
Answer: Trichotillomania - psychiatric disease
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Flashcard 81: Tourette's syndrome is associated with _____ and _____
Answer: ADHD
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Flashcard 82: Which ego defense is defined as regulating situations and events of external environment to relieve anxiety? _____
Answer: Controlling (immature defense)
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Flashcard 83: What is the likely etiology of erectile dysfunction in a middle-age man that complains of difficulty attaining/maintaining an erection during sexual activity for 6 months? He continues to have normal early-morning penile erections. _____
Answer: Psychogenic
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Flashcard 84: _____ is a complex method of psychotherapy that integrates therapy with eye movements
Answer: Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing treatment
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Flashcard 85: What is the treatment for a panic attack in a patient with a history of hypothyroidism? _____
Answer: Benzodiazepines
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Flashcard 86: Chronic anxiety = _____ Acute anxiety = _____
Answer: GAD
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Flashcard 87: Between malingering, factitious, and somatic symptom disorders; in which disease are symptoms unconscious, motivation unconscious?_____
Answer: Somatic symptom disorders
Flashcard 88: Patients with conversion disorder are often aware but indifferent towards their symptoms (e.g. blindness, mutism); known as '_____''
Answer: la belle indifference
Flashcard 89: _____ disorder is characterized by various unexplained bodily complaints lasting for months and years with persistent thoughts/anxiety about symptoms
Answer: Somatic symptom
Flashcard 90: Sexual dysfunction includes sexual _____ disorders, such as dyspareunia and vaginismus
Answer: pain
Flashcard 91: _____ disorder is a loss of sensory or motor function (e.g. paralysis, blindness, mutism), often following an acute stressor
Answer: Conversion
Flashcard 92: _____ disorder is an excessive preoccupation with acquiring or having a serious illness, often despite medical evaluation and reassurance; minimal somatic symptoms
Answer: Illness anxiety
Flashcard 93: Do patients with erectile dysfunction due to psychological etiologies have nocturnal penile tumescence?_____
Answer: Yes
Flashcard 94: Conversion (functional neurological symptom) disorder is more common in _____ (gender), adolescents, and young adults
Answer: females
Flashcard 95: _____ amnesia is an inability to recall important personal information, usually subsequent to severe trauma or stress
Answer: Dissociative
Flashcard 96: Which ego defense is defined as partially remaining at a more childish level of development?_____
Answer: Fixation (immature defense)
Flashcard 97: Which personality disorder is characterized by preoccupation with order, perfectionism, and control? _____
Answer: Obsessive-compulsive (cluster C)
Flashcard 98: Which drug withdrawal is associated with yawning? _____
Answer: Opioid withdrawal
Flashcard 99: _____ is a phobia characterized by irrational fear/anxiety in uncontrollable environments (e.g. wide open or crowed spaces, public transportation)
Answer: Agoraphobia
Flashcard 100: Aphthous ulcers arise in relation to _____ and resolve spontaneously, however they often recur
Answer: stress
Flashcard 101: _____ syndrome is when the parents perceive the child as especially susceptible to illness or injury
Answer: Vulnerable child
Flashcard 102: Clomipramine is a TCA that may be used in the treatment of _____ disorder
Answer: obsessive-compulsive
Flashcard 103: _____ disorder is a preoccupation with a minor or imagined defect in appearance, causing significant emotional distress or impaired functioning
Answer: Body dysmorphic
Flashcard 104: Specific phobias can be treated with _____ therapy (a form of behavioral therapy)
Answer: systematic desensitization
Flashcard 105: What are the first-line pharmacologic treatments (2) for panic disorder? _____
Answer: SSRIs or venlafaxine
Flashcard 106: Do patients with nightmares have any memory of the scary dream?_____
Answer: Yes
Flashcard 107: Opioid withdrawal is associated with fever, yawning, rhinorrhea, lacrimation, and _____ ("cold turkey")
Answer: piloerection
Flashcard 108: Importantly, to classify a patient as having Generalized Anxiety Disorder, symptoms do not meet the criteria for _____
Answer: major depressive disorder
Flashcard 109: _____ disorders include panic disorder, phobias, generalized anxiety disorder, and selective mutism
Answer: Anxiety
Flashcard 110: _____ is compulsively pulling out one's hair which causes significant distress but persists despite attempts to stop.
Answer: Trichotillomania
Flashcard 111: _____ disorder is a phobia characterized by exaggerated fear of embarassment in public situations (e.g. public speaking, using public restrooms)
Answer: Social anxiety
Flashcard 112: What drug may be used to reduce nightmares in PTSD? _____
Answer: Prazosin
Flashcard 113: Benzodiazepines may be used to treat _____ disorder and panic disorder, though SSRIs and SNRIs are first line
Answer: generalized anxiety
Flashcard 114: What symptoms of alcohol withdrawal occur during the 3 - 36 hour time period? _____
Answer: Non-specific depressant withdrawal symptoms
Flashcard 115: What is the treatment for body dysmorphic disorder? _____
Answer: CBT
Flashcard 116: What is the first-line treatment for agoraphobia? _____
Answer: CBT + SSRIs
Flashcard 117: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is associated with _____ syndrome
Answer: Tourette
Flashcard 118: Anxiety is characterized by _____ serotonin
Answer: decreased
Flashcard 119: If a psychosocial stressor causes continued impairment > 6 months after the stressor ends, it is _____ disorder
Answer: generalized anxiety
Flashcard 120: Are patients with avoidant personality disorder content with social isolation? _____
Answer: No
Flashcard 121: What are the first-line pharmacologic treatments (2) for generalized anxiety disorder? _____
Answer: SSRIs or SNRIs
Flashcard 122: People with cluster _____ personality disorders are described as anxious or fearful
Answer: C
Flashcard 123: What is the treatment for acute stress disorder? _____
Answer: CBT
Flashcard 124: _____ disorders are characterized by an inappropriate experience of fear/worry and physical manifestations incongruent with the magnitude of the perceived stressor
Answer: Anxiety
Flashcard 125: Treatment for separation anxiety disorder includes _____, play therapy, and family therapy
Answer: CBT
Flashcard 126: Tension headaches are more common in _____ (gender)
Answer: females
Flashcard 127: Benzodiazepines may be used as a hypnotic to treat _____, but they are not first line treatment due to physical dependence
Answer: insomnia
Flashcard 128: Which childhood psychiatric disorder may lead to factitious physical complaints to avoid school? _____
Answer: Separation anxiety disorder
Flashcard 129: Neuro/PsychDo benzodiazepines have addictive potential? _____
Answer: Yes
Flashcard 130: _____ disorder is characterized by recurring intrusive thoughts, feelings, or sensations that cause severe distress and is temporarily relieved by the performance of repetitive actions
Answer: Obessive-compulsive
Flashcard 131: _____ disorder is a psychological trauma in response to life threatening situation (witnessing death, serious injury, or sexual violence)
Answer: Post-traumatic stress
Flashcard 132: Which personality disorder is characterized by social withdrawal with hypersensitivity to rejection and feelings of inadequacy? _____
Answer: Avoidant (cluster C)
Flashcard 133: Which ego defense is defined as temporary, drastic change in personality, memory, consciousness, or motor behavior to avoid emotional stress? _____
Answer: Dissociation (immature defense)
Flashcard 134: What drugs (2) may be used to treat social anxiety disorder for anxiety-inducing situations?_____
Answer: Benzodiazepines or -blockers
Flashcard 135: What is the first-line pharmacologic treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)? _____
Answer: SSRIs
Flashcard 136: Buspirone is primarily used to treat _____ disorder (2nd line)
Answer: generalized anxiety
Flashcard 137: Patients with _____ personality disorder often get stuck in abusive relationships
Answer: dependent
Flashcard 138: Which ego defense is defined as intentionally withholding an idea or feeling from conscious awareness (temporary)? _____
Answer: Suppression (mature defense)
Flashcard 139: Patients with _____ personality disorder are typically submissive and clingy
Answer: dependent
Flashcard 140: What is the first line treatment for generalized anxiety disorder? _____
Answer: CBT + SSRIs/SNRIs
Flashcard 141: Neuro/Psych_____ may be used to treat parasomnias in children, such as sleep walking and night terrors
Answer: Benzodiazepines
Flashcard 142: PTSD is diagnosed if the disturbance lasts _____ (duration) with significant distress or impaired social-occupational functioning
Answer: > 1 month
Flashcard 143: What demographic (age group) is associated with sleep terror disorder? _____
Answer: Children
Flashcard 144: Agoraphobia is associated with _____ disorder
Answer: panic
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