Psychiatry conditions flashcards
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Twenty flashcards on common mental health conditions: key criteria, warning signs and first treatment.
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- Major depression: minimum duration and symptom count?
- 2 weeks with 5 of 9 symptoms, including low mood or loss of interest.
- First-line drug class for depression and anxiety?
- SSRIs.
- Common depression screening tool?
- PHQ-9, with PHQ-2 as a quick screen.
- Persistent depressive disorder: duration in adults?
- Depressed mood for at least 2 years.
- High mood, little need for sleep and risky behavior for 7 days?
- Mania, as in bipolar I disorder.
- Signs of lithium toxicity?
- Coarse tremor, vomiting, confusion, ataxia.
- Schizophrenia: required duration of symptoms?
- At least 6 months, with 1 month of active symptoms.
- Fever, rigidity and confusion on an antipsychotic?
- Neuroleptic malignant syndrome.
- Sudden fear attacks with palpitations peaking in minutes?
- Panic disorder.
- Generalized anxiety disorder: duration?
- Excessive worry most days for at least 6 months.
- Intrusive thoughts with repetitive rituals: treatment?
- OCD; SSRI plus exposure and response prevention.
- First-line drug class for alcohol withdrawal?
- Benzodiazepines.
- Give before glucose in a malnourished patient with alcohol use disorder?
- Thiamine.
- Opioid overdose reversal drug?
- Naloxone.
- Medications for opioid use disorder?
- Buprenorphine, methadone or naltrexone.
- Low BMI, fear of weight gain and food restriction?
- Anorexia nervosa.
- Main danger when restarting nutrition in anorexia?
- Refeeding syndrome with low phosphate.
- Inattention and hyperactivity before age 12 in 2 settings?
- ADHD.
- How to screen for suicide risk?
- Ask directly about thoughts and plans; asking does not raise risk.
- Mood symptoms in the week before menses that end after?
- Premenstrual dysphoric disorder.