Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Question 1

Global Developmental Delay

Answer 1

Children under 5 severely delayed in cognitive and physical development

Question 2

Developmental Coordination Disorder

Answer 2

Impairment in developing and executing skills requiring motor coordination

Question 3

Stereotypic Movement Disorder

Answer 3

Repetitive motor movements not the result of compulsion or tics (like seen in autism, hand flapping)

Question 4

Tourettes Disorder includes what kind of tics?

Answer 4

Motor AND vocal tic

Question 5

True or False, to be diagnosed with Persistent (Chronic) Tic Disorder you need both a motor and vocal tic

Answer 5

Motor OR vocal

Question 6

Provisional Tic Disorder

Answer 6

single tick, less than 1 year, before the age of 18

Question 7

Delusional Disorder

Answer 7

One non-bizarre delusion for a mimimum of 1 month
brief concurrent mood episodes
psychosocial functioning normal

Question 8

schizophrenic symptoms after a stressful event that last for a least a day, but no more than one month classifies as what disorder

Answer 8

Brief Psychotic Disorder

Question 9

A Schizophrenia diagnosis includes what positive and negative symptoms?

Answer 9

Longer than 6months
Positive (hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech, inappropriate affect, disorganized behavior) symptoms
Negative symptoms (loss of abilities/characteristics)

Question 10

Avolition

Answer 10

Loss of willpower and decisiveness (Negative symptom in schizophrenia)

Question 11

Alogia

Answer 11

Speech disturbance (symptom of schizophrenia)
Poverty of speech

Question 12

Anhedonia

Answer 12

Loss of ability to experience pleasure (symptom of schizophrenia)

Question 13

Schizophreniform Disorder

Answer 13

short term “form of” schizophrenia–at least one month, no more than 6 months

Question 14

Schizoaffective Disorder

Answer 14

Schizophrenia with a major mood component (major depressive or manic episode)

Question 15

What is the belief for someone with a Delusional disorder, Erotomanic Type

Answer 15

Delusional Disorder, individual believes others of higher status are in love with them

Question 16

What is the delusion for someone with a Delusional Disorder, Grandiose Type

Answer 16

convinced of special talents

Question 17

Jealous Type

Answer 17

Delusional disorder: Individual believes love to be unfaithful

Question 18

Persecutory Type

Answer 18

Delusional disorder: Believes someone is trying to poison them

Question 19

Somatic Type

Answer 19

Delusional disorder: Believes they smell or feeling something crawling on them
(sensory delusions)

Question 20

3 Phases of schizophrenia

Answer 20

prodromal phase: decline in functioning
active phase: full symptoms of schizophrenia
residual phase: symptoms improve but impairment continues

Question 21

Manic episode

Answer 21

abnormally elevated mood, expansive or irritable for at least 1 week

Question 22

Hypomanic

Answer 22

symptoms of manic but less severe, at least 4 days

Question 23

Major Depressive Episode

Answer 23

Depressed mood with loss of pleasure

Question 24

Bipolar I Disorder includes what episodes?

Answer 24

one manic AND one major depressive episode

Question 25

What two episodes are included in Bipolar II Disorder

Answer 25

one hypomanic and one major depressive episode

Question 26

Cyclothymic Disorder

Answer 26

Chronic mood shifts b/w hypomanic and depressive symptoms but doesn’t meet full criteria for either