ACS: Brain Functions & Mental Health Flashcards
(90 cards)
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Fx: personality, problem solving
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Frontal lobe
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Fx: Somatosensory (temp, pressure, position)
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anterior edge- Parietal lobe
3
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Fx: vision (color/shape)
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Occipital lobe
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Fx: Auditory & smell
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Superior temporal lobe
5
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Fx: speech (motor)
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Broca’s area- frontal lobe (left hemisphere)
6
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Fx: Speech (sensory, planning & understanding)
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Wernicke’s area- Jxn of parietal, temporal & occipital
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Fx: biological drives (thirst, hunger)
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Hypothalamus
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Fx: emotions
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Near corpus colloquy & temporal lobe
9
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Fx: visual & spatial
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Right parietal
10
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Fx: Understand language
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Left parietal
11
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Which hemisphere = Speech, organized, aware of time, visual
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Left
12
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Which hemisphere = movement & sensation on right body and right half visual field
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Left
13
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Which hemisphere = Needs a reason to follow rules, enjoys sensory stimulation
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Left
14
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Which hemisphere = Music & art appreciation, drawing ability, words to remember
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Right
15
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Which hemisphere = mvmnt & sensation on left side of body and left half visual field
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Right
16
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Which hemisphere = Follows rules, likes to observe rather than participate
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Right
17
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Time period for:
Isolation, lobotomies, ECT
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Pre 1960’s
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Time period for:
drugs, therapy, de-institutionalizations
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Post 1960’s
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What institution, in 1955, was very successful with mental illness?
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Spear’s Chiropractic Hospital
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Theory of Reasoned Action
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Perception + family/friends + beliefs = action
21
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Communication is based on:
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Speech, eye contact, body language, body contact, & language
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Combination of open-ended and direct questioning
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Funneling
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Non-reversible deterioration of cognition and behavior
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Dementia
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Often reversible acute confusion that may fluctuate
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Delirium
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Mania & melancholy mood swings
Appears around 20 y/o
Tax: lithium, drug stabilizers, mood charting
Bipolar disorder
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Causes hypo manic & mild depressive episodes
Cyclothymic disorder
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Aka depression, hopelessness, suicidal
| High incidence: Alzheimer's, DM, Parkinson's, heart, stroke CA
Unipolar disease
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Major depressive is ___ weeks of ___ symptoms
2 weeks of 4 symptoms (loss of appetite, insomnia, agitation, worthlessness, suicidal, poor concentration)
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2 years of at least 3 symptoms (loss of appetite, insomnia, agitation, worthlessness, suicidal, poor concentration)
Dysthymic disorder
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Tx for depression and dysthymia
Personal therapy, drugs, ECT, nutrition
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Tx for Seasonal Affective Disorder
Light, exercise, comfort foods
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Episodic
Young adults are most commonly affected
Reality is altered
Delusion, hear voices, disorganized speech
Schizophrenia
33
Types of schizophrenia (x4)
1. Disorganized: unpredictable mood shifts
2. Catatonic: Rigid posture, flat affect, masked fancies
3. Paranoid: delusions of persecution
4. Schizophreniform: adolescent onset, family induced, contradictory messages
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No regard for self or others (lacks empathy)
Strongly amoral conduct masked by ability to appear outwardly normal
Verbal therapy not effective
Psychopath
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Believes they are superior, grandiose, lack remorse
Shallow emotions
Need stimulation
Pathological liar
Violent
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Sociopath/antisocial
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Multiple personalities
Childhood trauma
Can be short term event
Dissociative disorder
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Physical complaint with no organic pathology, entirely unconscious
Somatoform disorders
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Convinced of a body flaw (real or imagined) and preoccupied with it
Dysmorphic disorder
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Food disorders
Anorexia: fear of fat
Bulimia: binge & purge (Barrett's)
Pica: no nutritional value
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Psychic conflict causing physical symptom
Conversion disorder
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Preoccupation with personal health or contracting illness
Hypochondriac
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Females under 30 (usually in adolescence)
Multiple systems
Confusing
Somatization disorder
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Underlying emotional process
| Pain often allows escape from responsibility
Somatoform pain disorder
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Constant excessive fear
Hypervigilant
S/s: twitching, sweating, dry mouth, HA, stomach ache, urinary frequency
General anxiety disorder (GAD)
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Occur with GAD, phobias, OCD, and/or PTSD
Panic attack
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Types of phobias (x2)
1. Social: provoked by people or performance issues
| 2. Specific: provoked by object or situation
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Repetitive thoughts and repetitive actions
| I.e. Cleaning, checking, repeating, hoarding, touching, etc.
Obsessive compulsive disorder
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Fear and anxiety following an emotional event
Flashbacks, sleep disorders (common)
Fibromyalgia, MFS, RLS
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
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In reality most of the time, hard on themselves
Low self esteem
Defense mechanisms are working overtime
To: support and enlighten
Neurosis
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Likes abuse
Masochist
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Inflicts abuse
Sadist
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Enjoys watching (sexual disorders)
Voyeur
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Enjoys showing (sexual disorders)
Exhibitionist
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Individual exaggerates personal complaints
Münchausen syndrome
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Caregiver inflicts harm on individual they care for
Munchausen by proxy
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Preoccupation with ones owns thoughts
Slow language development
No smiling (6 mo's)
No babble (12 mo's)
Repeated phrases (24 mo's)
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Autism
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Impulsive pattern
Inattentive, often dyslexic
Poor focus & academics
ADD
58
Coping methods
| Transfer one drive to opposite expression
Reaction formation
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Coping methods
| Act out emotion on someone else
Displacement
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Coping methods
| No feelings
Denial
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Coping methods
| Ignore feelings
Repression
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Coping methods
| Act younger
Regression
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Coping methods
| Give undesirable trait away, "blame game"
Projections
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Coping methods
| Excuse for behavior
Rationalize
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Coping methods
| Transfer emotions towards Doctor (parents, lovers, etc)
Transference
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Coping methods
| Replace socially unacceptable behavior with a more acceptable but similar one
Sublimation
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Personality disorder
Self love (me, myself and I)
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Narcissism
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Personality disorder
| Feels inadequate, isolates
Avoidant
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Personality disorder
| Believes everyone is out to get them
Paranoid
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Personality disorder
| Afraid of a particular thing
Phobic
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Personality disorder
| Peculiar dress, magical thinking and beliefs
Schizotypal
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Personality disorder
| Overly dramatic, victim often, seductive
Histrionic
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Analyze underlying issues
Psychotherapy
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LIfe style change therapy
Vacation
In-patient, half-way house, etc
Milieu therapy
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Therapy for severe depression
Electroconvulsive Shock Therapy (ECT)
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Many different stimulus leads to the same response
| Slow exposure
Generalization
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Psychotherapy
| Focused on self-actual inning and personal growth
Humanistic therapy
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Hierarchy of Needs
| Physiological needs - self actualization
Abraham MASLOW
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Dream analysis
Free association, hypnotherapy
Unconscious entities: ID, EGO, SUPEREGO
Freud
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ID:
EGO:
SUPEREGO:
ID: kid, unconscious primitive
EGO: reality, control
SUPEREGO: unconscious, conscience, guilt
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Psychoanalysis
| Student of Freud
Jung
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Desensitization
Aversion, reinforcements, shaping
3 types
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Behavior medicine
(Aversion, Avoidance, Conditioning)
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Associate behavior with negative consequences
Aversion behavioral medicine
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Avoid person, place and things associated with behavior
Avoidance behavioral medicine
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Subtypes: classical, modeling, and operant
Conditioning behavioral medicine
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Classical Conditioning
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Pavlov's dogs
Unconditioned stimulus (food) and reflex (salivate)
Conditioned stimulus (bell) and reflex (salivate)
Stimulus and response are related
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Modeling Conditioning
Environment
Influence
Video
Music
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Operant Conditioning
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Skinner "pay offs"
To change behavior
Stimulus and response are UNrelated
Negative- fastest
Positive- longest
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89
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Psychology tests:
Standford Binet =
WISC =
MMPI =
Rorschach =
MMSE =
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Standford Binet = IQ - adult
WISC = IQ - kid
MMPI = Personality
Rorschach = Projective
MMSE = memory and mental status
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90
Fx: Voluntary motor
Frontal lobe & cerebellum
