Comorbidities with mood disorders — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: _____ disorder is characterized by an abnormal range of moods or internal emotional states and loss of control over them

Answer: Mood

Flashcard 2: Treatment for disruptive mood dysregulation disorder includes psychostimulants, antipsychotics, and _____

Answer: CBT

Flashcard 3: Which personality disorder is characterized by excessive emotionality/excitability and sexually provocative behavior? _____

Answer: Histrionic (cluster B)

Flashcard 4: Marijuana withdrawal may cause irritability, anxiety, depression, insomnia, and _____ appetite

Answer: decreased

Flashcard 5: Which brain system is primarily responsible for the regulation of sex drive (libido) and emotional behavior?

Answer: Limbic system

Extra: The limbic system (including the amygdala, hippocampus, and cingulate gyrus) regulates emotions and drives. While the hypothalamus controls the physiological aspects of sexual function and hormonal release, the limbic system is key for the behavioral and emotional components.

Flashcard 6: Which part of the brain is primarily responsible for the processing and regulation of emotion?

Answer: Limbic system

Extra: The limbic system is a complex set of structures that includes the amygdala, hippocampus, thalamus, hypothalamus, basal ganglia, and cingulate gyrus. it is involved in motivation, emotion, learning, and memory.

Flashcard 7: What is the timecourse of normal grief and bereavement?

Answer: up to one year

Flashcard 8: How does sexual interest change in the elderly?

Answer: It usually doesnt!

Flashcard 9: What are the characteristics of normal grief and bereavement?

Answer: Shock, denial, guilt, and somatic symptoms. May experience illusions.

Flashcard 10: Patient is suicidal.

Answer: If credible threat to self, advise patient to stay in hospital voluntarily. If patient refuses, they may be hospitalized involuntarily.