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Disorder with anticipation and psychotic syndromes? Treatments?

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Huntington’s

Antipsychotics

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Girl 4-5 years presents with mental retardation - cause?

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Rett’s Syndrome

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Primary vs secondary gain?

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Like being treated vs wanting to avoid jail, wanting shelter etc

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Dysthymic vs cyclothymia: diagnosis in adults versus children?

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2 years in both

1 year in kids

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Cataplexy vs catalepsy?

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Lose tone vs slow motor behavior

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Narcolepsy - deficiency in?

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Oxycretin/orexin??

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What study to use for rare disease?

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Case control

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Piaget vs Mahler?

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Sensorimotor (achieve object permanence), preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational

Autism, symbiosis (just wants mon), separation-individualtion (hatching, practicing, rapprochement, refueling, object constancy)

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Defense mechanism in OCD?; non drug treatment?

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Undoing; exposure treatment

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Conduct vs oppositional-defiant?

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Illegal vs non-illegal activities

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REM sleep marked by?

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Dreams and erections

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REM sleep behavior disorder?

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No muscle paralysis in REM sleep

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Genetic disorders with skin picking?

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Lesch-Nyhan, Prader-Willi

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Most common inherited disorder vs most common genetic order for mental retardation?

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Fragile X vs Down’s Syndrome

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Drug for dystonia?

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Anticholinergics (benztropine)

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Drug that worsen Akathisia and Tardive Dyskinesia? Treatment for each?

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Anticholinergics

Propranolol vs clozapine

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Drug for psychosis in Parkinson’s?

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Clozapine (Seroquel second)

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Temporal lobe seizure - most common cause?

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Lesions in Korsakoff’s?

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Mammillary bodies or thalamus

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Wernicke’s marked by? Korsakoff’s?

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Araxua, nystagmus vs confabulation

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Treatment for tics?

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Antipsychotics, alpha-2 agonists (clonidine)

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Prazosin used to treat?

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Nightmares and ??

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Alternative to benzodiazepines in anxiety?

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SSRIs and Buspirone

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Opiate withdrawal Symptoms and treatment?

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Lacrimation, piloerection, diarrhea, twitching

Supportive, methadone and clonidine

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Lesion location in Alzheimer's?
Parietal-temporal
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Periodic sharp waves? 3 Hz waves? 3 spike waves?
Prions Absence seizures Hepatic encephalopathy
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Amenorrhea after medication - cause?
Antipsychotics
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Aplastic anemia caused by? Thrombocytopenia?
Carbamazepine; Valproic acid
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TCA overdose - cardiac sign and treatment?
QRS prolongation Charcoal or sodium bicarbonate to alkalizate urine
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Treatment of NMS?
Danteolene or DA agonists (Bromocriptine, anatadine)
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Seizure in schizophrenia - causes?
Clozapine Hyponatremia from psychogenic polydipsia or carbamazepine/lithium
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Actute mania treatment?
Antipsychotics + benzodiazepines + mood stabilizer
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Hyperplasia and hypersomnia - causes? Treatment?
Atypical depressant or seasonal affective disorder SSRIs then MAOIs
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vascular symptoms of MAOIs?
Hypotension (rarely hypertension crisis)