USMLE Flashcards: Behavioral Science - Side by Side
USMLE Flashcards: Behavioral Science - Side by Side
USMLE Flashcards: Behavioral Science - Side by Side
Name 1 neurotransmitter
change associated with Decreased Dopamine
Parkinson's disease.
Name 1 neurotransmitter
change associated with Increased Dopamine
Schizophrenia
Name 2 neurotransmitter
changes associated with Decreased GABA and Ach
Huntington's disease.
"Concentration, Orientation,
Name 7 functions of the Language, Abstraction,
frontal lobe. Judgment, Motor regulation,
Mood"
Name a possible chronic
Chronic fatigue
outcome of sleep apnea.
Recurrent-requires 2 or more
How is a major depressive depressive episodes with a
disorder characterized? symptom free interval of 2
months
"5 of the following for 2 weeks,
including (1) depressed mood or
(2) anhedonia: Sleep
How is a major depressive disturbances, Loss of Interest,
Guilt, Loss of Energy, Loss of
episode characterized?
Concentration, Change in
Appetite, Psychomotor
retardation, Suicidal ideation,
Depressed mood"
"excessive emotionally,
How would you describe a
somatization, attention
histrionic personality?
seeking, sexually provocative"
"grandiosity; sense of
How would you desribe a entitlement, many demand
Narcissistic personality? 'top' physician/best health
care"
"misinterpretation of actual
Illusions are…. external stimuli, ex.
Mistaking coat rack for man"
In what kind of disorder does
a person consciously create
symptoms in order to assume Factitious Disorder
a sick role and get medical
attention?
"Disorganized, Catatonic,
Name the 5 subtypes of
paranoid, Undifferentiated,
schizophrenia.
Residual"
Name the types of Cluster B "Antisocial, Borederline,
personalities. Histrionic, Narcissistic"
"Irritablility, headache,
Whar are the signs of nicotine
anxiety, weight gain, craving,
withdrawl?
tachycardia"
"Ambivalence(uncertainty),
Autism(self-preoccupation
Whare are the 4 A's of
and lack of communication),
schizophrenia?
Affect(blunted), Associations
(loose)"
"development of mulitple
cognitive deficits: memory,
Whare are the characteristics apahasia, apraxia, agnosia,
of Dementia? loss of abstract thought,
behavioral/personality
changes, impaired
judgement"
"Amnesia, ataxia,
Whare are the signs of
somnolence, minor resp
Benzodiazepine intox?
depression"
"restlessness, insomina,
Whare are the signs of increased diuresis, muscle
caffeine intox? twitching, cardiac
arrhythmias"
"Euphoria, anxiety, paranoid
delusions, perception of
Whare are the signs of slowed time, impaired
Marijuana intox? jugdment, social withdrawl,
increased appetite, dry mouth
and hallucinations"
"Belligerence, impulsiveness,
fever, psychomotor agitation,
Whare are the signs of PCP vertical and horizontal
intoxication? nystagmus, tachycardia,
ataxia, homicidality,
psychosis and delirium"
"Palipitations, Abdominal
What are the 5 characteristics distress, Nausea, Increased
of panic? perspiration, Chest pains,
chills and choking"
"Hallucinations, delusions,
What are the Positive
strange behavior and loose
symptoms of Schizophrenia?
associations"
"Disinhibition, emotional
What are the signs of alcohol
lability, slurred speech,
use?
ataxia, coma, blackouts"
"Psychomotor agitation,
impaired judgement,
pupillary dilation, HTN,
What are the signs of tachycardia, euphoria,
Amphetamine intoxication? prolonged wakefulness and
attention, cardiac
arrhythmias, delusions,
hallucinations, fever"
"Euphoria, psychomotor
agitation, impaired judgment,
tachycardia, pupillary
What are the signs of cocaine dilation, HTN, hallucinations
intoxication? (including tactile:bugs on
skin), paranoid ideations,
angina, and sudden cardiac
death"
"Hypersomnolence, fatigue,
What are the signs of cocaine
depression, malaise, severe
withdrawl?
craving, suicidality"
"Recurrence of intoxication
symptoms due to
What are the signs of PCP
reabsorption in GI tract,
withdrawl?
sudden onset of severe,
random, homicidal violence"
"ANS Hyperactivity
(tachycardia, tremors, and
What are the symptoms of
anxiety), Psychotic symptoms
DT's(in order of appearance)?
(hallucinations, delusions),
confusion"
"1.5%-(males/females,
What is the lifetime
blacks/whites) presents
prevalence for schizophrenia?
earlier in men"
What is the most common
psych illness on medical and "Delirium, often reversible"
surgical floors?
"Denial-Anger-Barganing-
Grieving-Acceptance, don't
What are the Kubler-Ross
occur necessarily in this order
dying stages?
[Hint: Death Arrives Brining
Grave Adjustments]"
"assoc. w/ gtr. Incidence of
physical and emotional
problems. Complications
What are the risks of low birth include:- infections-
weight? respiratory distress
syndrome- necrotizing
entercolitis- persistent fetal
circulation"
prematurity or intrauterine
What causes low birth weight?
growth retardation
Reproducibility of a test;
Define Reliability repeat measurements are the
same
Define Secondary Disease "Early detection of disease,
Prevention e.g., Pap smear"
Do divorcees remarry
Yes
frequently?
How do disease prevalence
Higher prevalence = Higher
and positive predictive value
Positive Predictive Value
relate?
Is divorce related to
No
industrialization?
Variance of 3 or more
What does an ANOVA
variables (Analysis of
analyze?
Variance)
Experimental study.
What is a Clinical trial? Compares benefit of 2 or
more treatments.
"Hypothesis of no difference,
What is a Null Hypothesis? e.g., no assoc. between
disease and risk factor"
Avoidance of awareness of
Define denial.
some painful reality
Process whereby avoided
ideas and feelings are
Define displacement.
transferred to some neutral
person or object
"-costly-lengthy-intensive-
Name 4 characteristics of
places great demands on the
psychoanalysis.
patient"
"-Sublimation-Altruism-
What are the MATURE ego Suppression-Humor
defenses? (4) (Mneumonic: Mature women
wear a SASH)"
What is an example of
Men fixating on sports games
fixation?