Deck 17: Psychiatric Disorders

Question 1

The patient with an acute psychotic disorder should be first transported to a medical facility for medical evaluation before transfer to a mental health facility for further evaluation and treatment.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

____, a degenerative brain disease that leads to dementia, is a genetic condition passed on from one generation to the next.

A) Schizophrenia
B) Bupolar disorder
C) PTSD
D) Huntington's chorea

Answer 2

Huntington's chorea

Question 3

According to somatogenic theorists, mental illness is thought to be the result of an imbalance among the neurotransmitters.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

____ are perceptions not associated with reality.

A) Hallucinations
B) Phobias
C) Depressions
D) Delusions

Question 5

A pale skin color may be a sign of primary adrenal insufficiency.

Question 6

Most experts suggest that 30% of the population will be clinically mentally ill at some point in their lives.

Question 7

A patient with intermittent, spasmodic muscular contractions may be exhibiting the signs of acute serotonin syndrome.

Question 8

____ is an anxiety disorder that occurs following a life-threatening event, such as personal combat or violent sexual assault.

A) Panic attack
B) Post-traumatic stress disorder
C) Generalized anxiety disorder
D) Obsessive-compulsive disorder

Question 9

Up to one-third of admissions of patients over age 70 will experience delirium during their hospital stay.

Question 10

Repetitive behaviors, such as excessive hand washing and cleaning, are the hallmarks of a patient with a social phobia.

Question 11

Antipsychotics can be used to cure psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia.

Question 12

____ are those psychological disorders that affect mood.

A) Manias
B) Schizophrenias
C) Delusional disorders
D) Affective disorders

Question 13

____ speech is rapid, often loud, always empathetic, and almost non-stop.

A) Stilted
B) Alogenic
C) Monosyllabic
D) Pressured

Question 14

____ speech is the use of extremely formal terminology in everyday conversation.

A) Verbigerated
B) Monosyllabic
C) Stilted
D) Pressured

Question 15

The ____ theorists focus on a person's unresolved conflicts between inner desires and opposing external demands as the cause for mental illness.

A) somatogenic
B) developmental
C) psychogenic
D) cognitive

Question 16

____ is the lack of desire to complete a task or assignment that the patient has the skills to do.

A) Avolition
B) Hebephrenia
C) Catatonia
D) Alogia

Question 17

____ are beliefs that are contrary to the evidence.

A) Depressions
B) Delusions
C) Phobias
D) Hallucinations

Question 18

Heredity may play a role in some mental illness.

Question 19

Phenothiazines are thought to antagonize the neurotransmitter dopamine and/or interfere with muscarinic, serotonin, adrenergic, and histamine receptors.

Question 20

____ theorists accept psychotic behavior as a malfunction of the central nervous system.

A) Psychogenic
B) Somatogenic
C) Cognitive
D) Developmental

Question 21

Traditional ____ used for short-term relief of psychomotor agitation, confusion, and hallucinations include the phenothiazines.

A) antidepressants
B) neuroleptics
C) neuralgesics
D) opiates

Question 22

____ is an acute and potentially reversible decline in mental function often associated with illness.

A) Delirium
B) Dementia
C) Paranoia
D) Psychosis

Question 23

____ is a gradual and irreversible decline in mental function generally owed to an organic cause such as senility or Alzheimer's disease.

A) Paranoia
B) Delirium
C) Psychosis
D) Dementia

Question 24

____________________, a poverty of speech, is evident when the patient is unable to sustain a conversation.

Question 25

These nonpsychiatric origins of psychotic behaviors are manifestations of the underlying disease and the behaviors that arise from these diseases are referred to as ____.

A) acute psychosis
B) primary psychosis
C) secondary psychosis
D) paranoid psychotic episode

Question 26

The symptom complex of hallucinations and delusions is consistent with a paramedical diagnosis of ____.

A) acute psychotic disorder
B) primary psychotic disorder
C) brief reactive psychosis
D) paranoid psychotic episode

Question 27

____________________ syndrome occurs when a patient takes an antidepressant medication, such as a SSRI, MAOI, or TCA, and has excessive levels of serotonin.

Question 28

A(n) ____________________ is a sudden brief overwhelming feeling of fear that is part of the panic disorder.

Question 29

____________________ is a departure from the normal patterns of behavior that characterize human interaction.

Question 30

Patients who are prescribed ____ are warned to not eat certain tyramine-containing foods, such as wine and certain cheeses because they put them at risk for developing a hypertensive crisis or serotonin syndrome.

A) selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
B) monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs)
C) tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)
D) methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMAs)

Question 31

____ are idiosyncratic reactions associated with the use of antipsychotic medications.

A) Lead pipe rigidity
B) Cogwheeling
C) Neuroleptic malignant syndrome
D) Acute dystonic reactions

Question 32

The brief reactive psychosis, called a(n) ____________________ in lay terms, is provoked by a stressful event, such as a death in the family.

Question 33

____ is a potentially life-threatening adverse reaction to psychotropic medications.

A) Neuroleptic malignant syndrome
B) Acute dystonic reaction
C) Lead pipe rigidity
D) Cogwheeling

Question 34

The acute dystonic reaction known as ____ is a spasmodic movement of the extremities when taking a blood pressure.

A) acute dissociative reaction
B) lead pipe rigidity
C) neuroleptic malignant syndrome
D) cogwheeling

Question 35

The acute dystonic reaction known as ____ is an increased muscle tone in the extremities that resists movement.

A) acute dissociative reaction
B) cogwheeling
C) lead pipe rigidity
D) neuroleptic malignant syndrome