Violence risk assessment in psychosis — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: Antisocial personality disorder is more common in _____ (gender)

Answer: males

Flashcard 2: A _____ disorder is an inflexible, maladaptive, and rigidly pervasive pattern of behavior causing subjective distress and/or impaired functioning

Answer: personality

Flashcard 3: Which psychiatric disorder, delirium or dementia, is characterized by disorganized thinking, visual hallucinations, disturbances in sleep wake cycle, cognitive dysfunction, and agitation? _____

Answer: Delirium

Flashcard 4: What is the treatment for borderline personality disorder? _____

Answer: Dialectical behavioral therapy

Flashcard 5: Risks factors for postpartum psychosis include _____ pregnancy, history of bipolar or psychotic disorder, family history, and recent discontinuation of psychotropic medication

Answer: first

Flashcard 6: Broca's aphasia

Answer: damage to inferior frontal gyrus of dominant frontal lobe

Extra: nonfluent speech, intact comprehensionmnemonic: Broca's Broken Boca

Flashcard 7: Wernicke's aphasia

Answer:

Extra: fluent but nonsensical speech, impaired comprehensionmnemonic: Wernicke's Wordy Widdershins (widdershins is nonsense in this context)superior temporal gyrus of dominant temporal lobe

Flashcard 8: global aphasia

Answer: damage to both Broca's and Wernicke's areas (dominant frontal and temporal lobes)

Extra: nonfluent speech, impaired comprehension

Flashcard 9: olfaction

Answer: limbic system

Flashcard 10: GABA

Answer: nucleus accumbens