Diagnosis & Psychopathology

Question 1

Which personality disorder has the highest genetic influence?

Answer 1

Antisocial

Question 2

What is the most prominent risk factor for childhood depression?

Answer 2

A parent with a depressive disorder

Question 3

What is the most common second-line medication for ADHD?

Answer 3

Antidepressants

Question 4

T/F: Risk for major depression is essentially the same whether an individual has one or two parents with depression.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

What are 3 common vegetative symptoms associated with depression?

Answer 5

Sleep difficulties, appetite changes, psychomotor retardation

Question 6

Which areas of the brain are most likely to be affected by FAS?

Answer 6

Basal ganglia, hippocampus, frontal lobes

Question 7

Buprenorphine is used for what?

Answer 7

Opioid addiction

Question 8

T/F: A patient will score low on the Rancho Los Amigos Scale globe when admitted to a rehabilitation setting and score will increase as they improve.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

Prevalence rate for ASD in epidemiological studies since 2000 indicate a convergence rate of…

Answer 9

60/10,000

Question 10

What is the best treatment for Factitious Disorder?

Answer 10

Supportive psychotherapy in an outpatient setting

Question 11

ADHD has been linked to abnormalities in what brain structures?

Answer 11

Frontal lobe, striatum, cerebellum

Question 12

Is nicotine replacement itself effective for long-term abstinence?

Answer 12

No

Question 13

Nicotine replacement therapy + behavioral interventions are more helpful in terms of short-term or long-term abstinence?

Answer 13

Long-term

Question 14

Korsakoff’s Syndrome results in severe anterograde amnesia and retrograde amnesia for events that occurred when?

Answer 14

In the recent past

Ex. Remembering someone met a week ago

Question 15

What percentage of children with ADHD continue to exhibit symptoms into adulthood?

Answer 15

30-70%

Question 16

Dissociative amnesia usually results in memory loss for information acquired when?

Answer 16

After the emotional trauma (event that caused the symptoms)

Question 17

Reactive Attachment Disorder involves what?

Answer 17

Emotionally withdrawn behavior toward adult caregivers.

Question 18

Idiopathic

Answer 18

Of unknown cause

Question 19

Stage 1 of Alzheimer’s involves what?

Answer 19

Short-term memory loss

Question 20

Stage 2 of Alzheimer’s involves what?

Answer 20

Inability to perform complex tasks

Question 21

Incidence rate of OCD in males vs. females in adolescence and adulthood

Answer 21

Higher rates among boys

About equal rates among adult males and females

Question 22

Caution is necessary when considering Ritalin for a hyperactive child who has a family history of what?

Answer 22

Tourette’s

Question 23

What type of hallucinations are most common among Schizophrenics?

Answer 23

Auditory

Question 24

Circumstantiality (speech)

Answer 24

A pattern of speech that is delayed in reaching the point

Question 25

Clonidine side effects

Answer 25

Dry mouth, headache, hypotension

Question 26

Depression is accompanied by what type of memory deficit?

Answer 26

Recall memory

Question 27

According to Theodore Millon, people with Narcissistic Personality Disorder rely primarily on which defense mechanisms?

Answer 27

Repression, rationalization, projection

Question 28

What area of the brain appears to be overactive in people diagnosed with OCD?

Answer 28

Caudate nucleus

Question 29

% of children diagnosed with ADHD who will exhibit symptoms through life

Answer 29

30-70%

Question 30

Hypokalemia

Answer 30

Low levels of serum potassium from purging May ultimately lead to kidney failure or cardiac arrest

Question 31

To diagnose someone under 18 with a personality disorder, features must be present for how long?

Answer 31

1 year

Question 32

Factors associated with successful smoking cessation

Answer 32

Male 35+ Married or living with partner (support) Started smoking at a later age

Question 33

Tourette’s criteria - sxs - duration - age of onset

Answer 33

At least one vocal, multiple motor tics Sxs have persisted for more than 1 yr Onset before 18

Question 34

Rehm’s Self-Control Model (depression)

Answer 34

Depression = issues with self-monitoring, self-evaluation, self-reinforcement

Question 35

When a parent had childhood-onset ADHD, risk for diagnosis in own child is?

Answer 35

57%

Question 36

How many symptoms are needed (in either category or combined) for an adult to receive an ADHD diagnosis?

Answer 36

5

Question 37

How many symptoms (in either category or combined) are needed for someone under 17 to receive an ADHD diagnosis?

Answer 37

6

Question 38

Functional amnesia is characterized by?

Answer 38

Amnesia for autobiographical info

Question 39

12-month prevalence rate for Bipolar 1 in US

Answer 39

0.6%

Question 40

What % of women experience postpartum depression?

Answer 40

10-15%

Question 41

When is suicide risk the highest for someone with Bipolar Disorder?

Answer 41

When depressive symptoms have begun to lift