FA Psych Book Pearls

Question 1

What is the Minnesota Mulitphasic Personality Inventory test used for?

Answer 1

Assess personality and ID psychpathologies

-mean score of 50, SD 10

Question 2

Semantic memory located where?

Answer 2

Inferolateral Temporal lobe

Question 3

What are the long acting (> 20 hour) benzos?

Answer 3

Diazepam, Clonazepam

Question 4

What refers to the sudden loss of muscle tone?

Sx of what?

Answer 4

Cataplexy

Narcolepsy

Question 5

What TCAs are the tertiary amines?

Answer 5

AICD
Amitriptyline
Imipramine
Clomipramine
Doxepin

Question 6

What are the secondary TCA amines?

Answer 6

Nortriptyline

Desipramine

Question 7

Pt w/hepatic encephalopathy shows what on EEG?

Answer 7

Triphasic waves

Question 8

According to Freud, what contains the instinctual drives?

Answer 8

The Id

Question 9

What is the most important factor in assessing a pt’s risk of violence?

Answer 9

Hx of violence

Question 10

What is the #1 SE in SSRI?

Answer 10

GI disturbance

Question 11

What are important CYP450 inducers?

What does this mean?

Answer 11

Tobacco, Carbamazepine, barbs, St Johns Wort

Decreased level of drug

Question 12

What is the primary metabolite of dopamine?

Found where?

Answer 12

Homovanillic acid (HVA)

CSF, blood, urine

Question 13

Pt w/opioid intox: shows what on EEG?

Answer 13

Dec alpha, inc voltage of delta and theta waves

Question 14

Person that is hyposexual, emotionally intense, and has viscosity and a peculiar perseverative approach to interactions with others is suffering from what?

Answer 14

Temporal lobe epilepsy

Question 15

What receptor does sumatriptan target?

Answer 15

5-HT1D

Question 16

What is Pregabalin used to treat?

Answer 16

GAD (2nd line)

Fibromyalgia

Question 17

Who decided competence?

Capacity?

Answer 17

Judge

Dr

Question 18

A “blanky” that comforts a child is called what according to Winnicott?

Answer 18

Transitional object

Question 19

all primary psychiatric disorders are recorded in what axis?

Other than what?

Those go where?

Answer 19

1

Retard or personality

2

Question 20

Chlorpromazine SE?

Answer 20

Ortho HoTN
Blue-gray skin discoloration
Cornea/lens deposits

Question 21

What receptors do atypical antipsychotics target?

Answer 21

5-HT6

D4

Question 22

What is Memantine used to treat?

Should be used with what?

Answer 22

Dementia

AChE-i

Question 23

Circadian rhythms are targeted by what receptor?

Answer 23

5-HT7

Question 24

Pt w/caffeine withdrawal shows what on EEG?

Nicotine withdrawal?

Answer 24

Inc in amplitude of theta activity

Dec in alpha activity

Question 25

What are the 4 elements of informed consent?

Answer 25

Reason for treatment Risks and benefits Alternatives Refused treatment consequences

Question 26

Antiparkinsonism anticholinergic drugs target what receptor?

Answer 26

M4

Question 27

Episodic memory located where?

Answer 27

``` Medial temporal lobe Anterior thalamic Nucleus Mamillary bodies Fornix Prefrontal cortex ```

Question 28

Procedural memory located where?

Answer 28

BG | Cerebellum

Question 29

What refers to an immobile position that is constantly maintained?

Answer 29

Catalepsy

Question 30

What drug is best at treating mania w/mixed features and rapid-cycling bipolar disorder? What must be checked during treatment?

Answer 30

Carbamazepine CBC, LFT

Question 31

What antipsychotics are better at treating the negative psychotic symptoms?

Answer 31

Atypicals - 2nd gen

Question 32

Pt that used weed shows what on EEG?

Answer 32

Inc alpha activity in the frontal area of brain but OVERALL slows alpha activity

Question 33

Pt w/electrolyte imbalance - stroke shows what on EEG?

Answer 33

Diffuse slowing of background rhythms

Question 34

What is the most significant developmental event of middle childhood (age 6-12)?

Answer 34

Going to school

Question 35

What axis do medical conditions go in?

Answer 35

3

Question 36

- symptoms of schizophrenia via what brain pathway?

Answer 36

Dec dopaminergic action in the mesocortical pathway

Question 37

According to Freud, whose function is to find an equilibrium between gratification of the instinctual drives and the rules of society?

Answer 37

Ego

Question 38

+ symptoms of schizophrenia occur in what brain pathway? What is involved?

Answer 38

Mesolimbic dopamine nucleus acumen’s, fornix, amygdala and hippocampus

Question 39

Thioridazine SE?

Answer 39

Retinitis pigmentosa

Question 40

What are the Short acting BENZOs?

Answer 40

Triazolam, Midazolam

Question 41

Pt w/CJD shows what on EEG?

Answer 41

Generalized periodic sharp waves

Question 42

Periodic lateralizing epileptiform discharges on EEG indicates what?

Answer 42

Stroke

Question 43

What axis does global assessment of functioning go in?

Answer 43

5

Question 44

What SSRI is only approved to treat OCD?

Answer 44

Fluvoxamine

Question 45

According to Freud, what is the agency that contains the internalized parental and societal rules and dictates to the ego what is not to be done?

Answer 45

Superego

Question 46

Avg IQ? V. Superior? High Avg? Superior?

Answer 46

90-109 > 130 110-119 120-129

Question 47

What are important CYP450 inhibitors? Means what?

Answer 47

Fluvoaxmine, Fluoxetine, Paroxetine Increased levels of drug

Question 48

What axis do stressors in the pt’s life go in?

Answer 48

4

Question 49

What is a compulsive act performed in an attempt to negate or avoid the consequences of a fantasized action that is the result of an obsessional impulse? Seen in what?

Answer 49

Undoing OCD

Question 50

Biggest SE of venlafaxine?

Answer 50

HTN