Theme 11 by Ryan

Question 1

Low road pathway

Answer 1

AH there this a snake!!

SC-Pulvinar-amygdala-hypothalamus

Question 2

High Road pathway

Answer 2

Oh it is just a stick……

LGN-V1-corticocortical-amygdala

Question 3

Kluver Bucy Sydome

Answer 3

Bilateral Temporal damage( amygdala, hippocampus, anterior temporal lobe)

Symptoms

• Docile
• Loss of Fear
• Hypersexaul
• Hypoemotial
• Hyperphagia( always hungry)
• Visual Agnosia
• Memory Impairment

Question 4

Prefrontal Damage

Answer 4

What was done in transorbital lobotomies

• Emotional disinhibition
• Emotional flattening,increased docility
• decreased goal-oriented behavior

Question 5

Formation of Fear Center?

Answer 5

Amygdala

Question 6

Extinction of Fear Center?

Answer 6

VPFC( Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex)

Question 7

Context of fear Center?

Answer 7

Hippocampus

Question 8

Criteria Panic disorder

Answer 8

> 1 month
Fear of future panic attacks
or Change in behavior related to attacks

Question 9

Criteria Agoraphobia

Answer 9

2 or more symptoms

of fear or avoiding crowds, places,

Question 10

Criteria Generalized Anxiety disorder

Answer 10

> 6 months

uncontrolled anxiety of multiple events

Question 11

Criteria Selective mutism

Answer 11

person can speak but doesn’t

CANT be with in the first of school

Question 12

Criteria OCD

Answer 12

Obsessive OR Compulsive behaviors

-Specifier “absent insight” if they don’t think they have a problem

Question 13

Neuroanatomical Cause of OCD

Answer 13

CSTC(Cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical) circuit overactivity

Serotonin deficiency

Question 14

Criteria PTSD

Answer 14

Needs to be do to actual threat of death or serious injury and last for greater than a month

1 or more symptoms from each of the 4 categories

• Intrusion
• Avoidance
• Negative Alteration in Cognition and Mood
• Alteration in Arousal and Reactivity

Question 15

Criteria Acute Stress

Answer 15

3 days to a month of PTSD like symptoms

Question 16

Neuroanatomical cause of PTSD

Answer 16

Hyperresponsive amygdala
Under Responsive prefrontal cortex( failure to suppress fear)
Reduced volume of hippocampus

Question 17

Criteria MDE

Answer 17

At least 2 weeks of more than 5 depressives symptoms

must include Depressed mood or Anhedonia

Question 18

Neuroanatomical Cause of MDD

Answer 18

increased-Amygdala firing,increased HPA axis( Cortisol, Cytokines)

Decreased: Hippocampal volume, Prefrontal Cortex activity and volume, Monoamines

Question 19

Neuroanatomical Causes for Somatic Symptom & Related Disorders

Answer 19

Overactivity of cingulate, insula and somatosensory cortex

amplified perception of pain

Question 20

Specifiers for Moods Disorder

Answer 20

Melancholic Features- worse in morning, loss of appetite, loss of sleep

Atypical-Weight increase, sleep increase

Psychotic Features- Mood congruent= sad Mood-incongruent=happy

With Catatonia-Mutism, immobility

Peri-Partum- MUST BE WITH IN 4 week of delivery

Seasonal Pattern-consistent temporal relationship

Rapid cycling- Used for bipolar with 4 or more mood episodes per year