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Extrapyramidal side effects

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Parkinsonism

Acute dystonia (systained muscle contraction)

Akathisia (restlessness)

Tardiv dyskinesia (late onset of choreoathetoid mvoements)

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Dystonia

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Sustained muscle contractions

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Akathisia

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Restlessness

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Dyskinesia

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Involuntary movements

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What pathway relates to prolactin

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Tuberoinfundibular pathway

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What pathway involed in parkinsonism

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Nigrostriatal

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What pathway leads to hallucinations

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Mesolimbic

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What pathway leads to negative symptoms

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Mesocortical

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Mechanism of antipsychotics

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Block dopamine receptors

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What anti-deppresant is contraindicated in anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa

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Bupropion

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Drugs for alcohol withdrawal syndrome

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1 - chloradiaepoxide

2 - lorazepam if have hepatic failure

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Granidose delusion

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Self is superior to everyone else

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Avolition

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Decrease in motivation to perform purposeful activities

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Catatonia

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State of unresponsiveness

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Neologism

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Creation of new words

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Passivity

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Movements or sensations controlled by external force

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Perseveration

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Needlessly repeating a word they had previously expressed

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Abergua

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Lack of energy

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Flight of ideas

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Manic phase, rapid shifting of ideas

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Circumstantiality

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Over inclusive speech that is delayed to reaching final goal

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What drugs are used for ADHD

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Citalopram

Atomoxetine

Modafinil

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Atomexetine mechanism

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Norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor

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Modafinil mechanism

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Dopamine reuptake inhibitor

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Metabolic state in bulimia nervosa

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Metabolic alkalosis, hypokalaemia and hypocholeraemia

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Reflex hallucinations
Normal sensory stimulus in one modaility precipitates hallucinations in another
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Autoscopic hallucinations
Visual hallucinations where see yourself in external space
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First person auditory hallucinations
Person hears own thoughts allowed
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Elementary hallucinations
Simple, unstructured sounds
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Haptic hallucinations
Tactile hallucinations, such as feeling of skin being touched
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Suppresion
Intentional withholding an idea or feeling
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Fixation
Partially remaing at a more childish level of development
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Regression
Involuntary turning back clock to earlier modes of dealing with the world
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Projections
Unacceptable internal impulse to an external source
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Identification
Unconscious assumption of characteristics of another person
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Displacement
Redirection of emotions to a neutral person or object
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Reaction formation
Replacing a warded off idea or feeling by an unconsciously derived emphasis on its opposite
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Repression
Involuntarily withholding an idea or feeling without conscious awareness
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Denial
Avoiding the awareness of a painful reality
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Sublimation
Replacing an unacceptable wish with a cource of action that is similar to the wish but does not conflict with ones value system
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Dissociation
Temporary, drastic change in personality or memory to avoid emotional stress
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Splitting
Believing that people are either all good or all bad at different times due to intolerance of ambiguity - often seen as borderline personality disorder
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Idealisation
Expressinv extremely positive thoughts of self and otehrs while ignoring negative ones
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Projection
Attributing uncomfortable thoughts or feelings to others
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What blood tests need to be arranged for patients on antipsychotics
FBC, glucose and calcium
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What tests are done when on lithium
FBC TFT Kidneys (U&Es, GFR)
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Delusional perception
Normal percetion acquires delusional significants
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Delusional intuitions (autochthonous delusions)
Happen suddenly "out of the blue"
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Delusional memories
Memories partially based on true events from past but with delusional beliefs attached
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Delusional atmosphere
Overwhelming feeling that something important is going on, but you dont know what
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Histrionic persoanlity disorder
Shallow and labile affectivity, theatrically, egocentricity, continual seeking of attention
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Anakastic personality disorder
Similar to OCD, becomes preoccupied with details, rules and scedules that hinders performance doing the tasts
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Nihilistic delusions
Belief that all or part of body, mind or world has ceased to exist
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Cotard syndrome
Patient believes they are dead
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Pareidolia
Vivid illusions from indistinct stimuli, such as seeing a face in the clouds
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Completion illusion
Due to inattention when reading, such as misreading words or completing faded letters
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Affect illusions
Associated with specific mood states, such as someone seeing there recently dead loved one
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Trailing phenomena
ASsociated with hallucinogenic drugs, changes in perception where person seeins moving objects in series of discontinuous images
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Lilliputian hallucinations
Visual hallucinations associated with micropsia (little things)
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Incongruity of affect
Inappropriate emotional responses
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Gustatory hallucination
Taste
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Hypnagogic hallucination
Hearing a voice upon waking up
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Echolalia
Repetition of words spoken by others
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Logorrhea
Excessive wordiness
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Paragrammatism
Loss of grammer mid sentence
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Paraphasia
Mispronunciation of fingle words or combination of words in inappropriate or meaningless ways
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Verbigeration
Monotonous repitition of parts of speech
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Undoing
Performing an act to make up for past behaviour or guilt
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Belle indiference
Indifferent emotional response to the level of impairment
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Agorophibia
Exaggerated feas that cannot be rationalised or controlled, usually associated with strong avoidance
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Hypnogogic hallucination
Hear someone whilst drifting off to sleep
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Alogia
Poverty of speech
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Bradyphasia
Slow speech
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Intellectualisation
Focus upon facts of a situation as opposed to the difficult emotions they may be fealing
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Rationalisation
To protect the ego, allows unacceptable behaviour to be justified in a logical manner
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Functional hallucination
Auditory stimulus cauyses an hallucination, but both are heard
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Catatonia
Severe form of psychomotor retardation where patient unresponsive to external stimuli despite being awake
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Extracampine hallucinations
Individual experiences an hallucination outside the limits of their own sensory fields, such as seeing someone standing behind them when looking directly ahead

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