L1: Overview of Psychiatry

Question 1

Etiology of Psychiatric Disorders

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Bio - Psycho - Social model

• Biological factors
• Psycholgical factors
• Social factors

Question 2

Biological factors of Psychiatric Disorders

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Question 3

Mode of inheritance of Psychiatric Disorders

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Question 4

Examples of Genetic Heritability

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Question 5

Neurotransmitters in different Psychiatric Disorders

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Question 6

Psychological factors in Psychiatric Disorders

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❶ Premorbid personality (susceptible for certain disease)

❷ Conflicts (intra-psychic)

❸ Cognitive errors

Question 7

Premorbid personality

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Question 8

Social Factors in Psychiatric Disorders

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Question 9

Diagnostic Issues in Psychiatric Disorders

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• Continuity with the normal.
• Difficulty to determine what is considered abnormal.
• Cultural consideration.
• No Biological diagnostic tests, so psychiatrists use diagnostic criteria

Question 10

what are Diagnostic Criteria?

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They are the result of statistical studies and require:

① Certain number of symptoms

② Certain duration

③ Impairment of functioning level

④ Exclusion of other medical or psychiatric causes.

Question 11

Classification of mental disorders

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Question 12

Charaters of Psychosis

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Psychotic symptoms
- Hallucinations: presence of sensations without a stimulus .
- Delusions: fixed, false beliefs that are not shared by the person’s culture and cannot be corrected by reasoning.

Lost (impaired) insight

Question 12

what are Neurocognitive disorders?

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1. Dementia
2. Delirium
3. Amnestic syndromes

Question 13

Types of Psychotic disorders

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1. Schizophrenia
2. Schizophreniform
3. Schizo-Affective
4. Brief Psychotic
5. Delusional
6. Mood dis. with psychotic features
7. Culture-Bound syndromes

Question 14

what are mood disorders?

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They are Episodes of:
a) Depression
b) Mania or hypomania
c) Mixed

Question 15

Characters of Somatic symptom & Factitious Disorders

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present with prominent somatic symptoms.

Question 16

Examples of Somatic symptom & Factitious Disorders

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1. Somatic symptom disorder
2. Conversion disorder (functional neurological symptom disorder)
3. Illness anxiety disorder
4. Psychological factors affecting other medical conditions
5. Factious disorder

Question 16

Disorders with anxiety

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• Obsessive – compulsive
• trauma
• stressor-related disorders.

Question 17

Characters of Dissociative Disorders

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• Disruption in the integrated sense of self.

Question 18

what do Dissociative Disorders include?

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Amnesia: Lapses in autobiographical memory

Depersonalization: Feelings of detachment from one’s self

Derealization: Feelings of detachment from one’s surroundings

Question 19

Examples of Eating Disorders

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1. Anorexia Nervosa
2. Bulimia Nervosa

Question 20

Def of Personality Disorders

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• enduring patterns of inner experience and behavior that deviate markedly from expectations of an individual’s culture.

Question 21

Characters of Personality Disrders

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• They are pervasive, maladaptive, and cause significant impairment in social or occupational functioning.

Question 22

Characters of Childhood Psychiatric Disorders

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Characterized by their early onset.

Question 23

Examples of Childhood Psychiatric Disorders

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o ADHD
o Autism
o Conduct
o Learning disability
o Depression, Psychosis, Mania, Anxiety Disorders.