Psychotic Disorders — Flashcards

Flashcard 11: When can the principle of beneficence trump respect for patient autonomy?

Answer: When patient "competence" is compromised (e.g. drugs, psychosis, severe retardation) Otherwise, automony usually takes precedence.

Flashcard 12: Autism spectrum disorder rarely is accompanied by unusual abilities (_____)

Answer: savants

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Flashcard 13: What features of extrapyramidal symptoms may be treated with β-blockers, benzodiazepines, and benztropine? _____

Answer: Akathisia

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Flashcard 14: Which psychiatric disorder, delirium or dementia, is characterized by decreased intellectual function without affecting level of consciousness? _____

Answer: Dementia

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Flashcard 15: _____ is usually secondary to other illness (e.g. CNS disease, infection, trauma, substance abuse/withdrawal, metabolic disturbances, hemorrhage, urinary/fecal retention)

Answer: Delirium

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Flashcard 16: _____ amnesia is the inability to remember things that occurred before a CNS insult

Answer: Retrograde

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Flashcard 17: Benzodiazepines are useful for treating _____ and sleepwalking by decreasing N3 and REM sleep

Answer: night terrors

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Flashcard 18: Between malingering, factitious, and somatic symptom disorders; in which disease are symptoms intentional, motivation unconscious? _____

Answer: Factitious

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Flashcard 19: The symptoms of neuroleptic malignant syndrome may be remembered with the mnemonic "Malignant FEVER": M: _____ F: Fever E: Encephalopathy (altered mental status) V: unstable Vitals (autonomic instability) E: increased Enzymes (e.g. CK) R: muscle Rigidity

Answer: Myoglobinuria

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Flashcard 20: _____ is defined as decreased cognitive ability, memory, or function with intact consciousness

Answer: Dementia

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