Keeping people healthy Flashcards
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In the thyamus what is often found in the medulla and what is it?
Thymic/ Hasel’s corpuscles
Dead clumped epitheioreticular cells
What are the two processes of filtration in the lymph nodes?
Mechanical filtration
Biological filtration
What’s the disease called when someone has no thyamus and what’s the outcomes of this?
Di George’s syndrome
No T cell formation
What type of connections do E-Cadherins have?
Homotypic connection
What do epithelial cells become when they lose their E-cadherins?
Epithelial mesenchymal transitional tissue
To diagnose depression what core symptoms must a person have?
Low mood and:
- Anhedonia - loss of happiness in things
- fatigue
Everyday for 2 weeks +
What is the clinical term for someone who starts to believe they are dead? or have parts of them that are dead?
Cotard’s syndrome
What type of drug is amitriptyline?
tri-cyclic anti-depressant
A form of monoamine oxidase enzymes are found in the G.I and break down what substance? and if this substance is blocked from being broken down what can it cause?
Tyramine
Hypertensive crisis
What is checklist criteria for assessing one’s mental health?
Appearance
Behaviour
Speech
Mood and Affect
Thought form
Perception
Cognition
Insight
What are the types of Delusions?
Persecutory - perceived threat from others
Grandiose - Overestimation of self - believing they have powers
Nihilistic - believing they are dead or part of them is dead
Delusions of reference - believing external things are talking to them
Thought interference - insertion, withdrawal or contrast
What’s the difference between hallucination and illusion?
Hallucination is based on NO stimuli
Illusion is based on a stimuli that is miss - interrupted
What is mood and how can it be broken down?
Mood is the generalised emotional state - over weeks and months.
Subjective - what patients says the feel
Objective - what the clinician observes
What is affect and what can it be broken down to?
The affect is the moment by moment monitoring of the mood of someone.
reactive? - appropriate to discussion Expansive? - exaggerated effects Flattened? - limited reaction Blunted? - no reaction Labile? - excessive emotions
What are differential diagnosises for depression?
Dysthymia - not bad enough to be depression
Clyclothymia - not enough to be bipolar
Atypical depression - SAD
Adjustment reaction - grief usually 1 month afterwards and lasts 6 months
What are the core features of depression?
Low mood with:
- Anhedonia
- Fatigue
What enzyme is checks the protein has folded correctly within the R.E.R? and what is it checking?
Glucosyltransferase
Checking for stretches of hydrophobicity. If large amoutn present it is re-folded or destroyed
What is internal locus of control?
People see that they have agency and control over their illness.
- more likely to comply
- can lead to feelings of guilt
What is external locus of control?
Where they do not believe they have control but instead is due to external agency
What are some barriers to adjustment?
Characteristic of the illness - pain? fatigue? uncertainty?
Treatment - burdensome? long?
Societal - stigma? rejection? does society see you as ill?
Co-moralities
Personality - locus of control
Social circumstances - fiances? support?
What is secondary gain of illness?
where there is subconscious increase in the person illness.
Their wife won’t leave them as long as their ill
What are 2nd auditory halluciations? and how does this compare to 3rd auditory halluciations?
2nd auditory - is to you “you are useless”
3rd auditory - is hearing voices talking about you “He’s useless”
What is the gene defect in Chronic Myloid Leukemia
Abl (chromosome 9) Bcr (chromosome 22)
What is the Abl Bcr?
It is a Tyrosine Kinase protein - only found in cancer cells from the mutation of chromosome 9 and 22
