Chapter 17- Psychiatry Flashcards
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What is psychiatry concerned with?
Physical symptoms and signs
Where are all the structures in this system located?
In the brain
What other system does psychiatry share duties with?
The limbic system
What is emotion?
An intense state of feelings
What is affect?
The outward display of emotion on the face
What is mood?
Prevailing, predominant emotion
What are the 5 neurotransmitters?
- Norepinephrine
- Epinephrine
- Dopamine
- Serotonin
- GABA
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)?
Constant, persistent, uncontrollable thoughts that occupy the mind, cause anxiety, and compel the patient to perform excessive, repetitive or meaningless activities.
What are phobias?
Intense, unreasonable fear of a specific thing or situation.
What is post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and what are some symptoms?
Continuing, disabling reaction to an excessively traumatic situation or event, such as war, terrorist, attack, torture, rape, ect.
Symptoms: chronic anxiety, insomnia, irritability, or occasional violent outbursts.
What is anorexia nervosa and what are some symptoms?
Extreme, chronic fear of being fat and an obsession to become thinner.
Symptoms: abnormal eating habits, distorted body image, fear, guilt, and depression.
What is bulimia and what are some symptoms?
Patients gorge themselves on excessive amounts of food and then, for fear of gaining weight, they rid themselves of food by using laxative drugs or self-induced vomiting.
Symptoms: Eroded tooth enamel, inflammation and ulcers in esophagus, fear, and guilt.
What is addiction?
A state of complete psychical and psychological dependence on a substance.
What is bipolar disorder and what are some symptoms?
Chronic mood swings between the two opposite emotional poles of mania and depression.
Symptoms: hyperactive, limitless energy, extreme happiness, need little sleep, poor judgement and recklessness.
What is major depression?
Chronic,, severe symptoms of depression with apathy, hopelessness, helplessness, worthlessness, crying, insomnia, lack of pleasure in activities, increased or decreased appetite.
What is delusional disorder and what are some symptoms?
Continued false beliefs concerning events of everyday life. These beliefs are fixed and unchanging despite the efforts of other to persuade or evidence showing otherwise.
Symptoms: paranoia or delusions of persecution believes that other people are trying to hurt them.
What is schizophrenia and what are some symptoms?
Schizophrenia is the most common type of psychosis. There is chronic loss of touch with reality in most or all aspects of life with bizarre behavior and breakdown of thought processes.
Symptoms: Hallucinations, false impressions of vision, smell, sound, taste, or touch. Delusions of persecution and delusions that other are controlling their thoughts of that they can use this thoughts to control events.
What is autism and what are some symptoms?
Inability to communicate, socialize, or form significant relationships with others, and a lack of interest in doing so.
Symptoms: avoid physical contact and eye contact, fascinated by objects, and ritualistic, repetitive behaviors.
What is attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)/
Distractibility, short attention span, inability to follow directions, restlessness, hyperactivity, emotional lability, and impulsiveness.
What is tourette’s syndrome?
Frequent, spontaneous, involuntary muscle tics, vocal tics, or spontaneous comments that socially inappropriate vulgar, obscene, or racist.
What is amnesia?
Partial or total loss of long-term memory due to trauma or disease of the hippocampus.
What is delirium?
Actue confusion, disorientation, and agitation due to toxic levels of body chemicals, drugs, or alcohol in the blood that affect the brain.
What is kleptomania?
Overwhelming impulse to steal things that have little of no value.
What is pyromania?
Deliberately setting fires for the please of watching the fire and the people sent to fight the fire.
