Psychiatry

Updates
RECENT TOPICS OF 2017-18 EXAMS

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PSYCHOSES VS NEUROSES
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Important Terminology in Psychiatry
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Psychosis Neurosis
ƒƒ Schizophrenia
ƒƒ Delusional disorder
ƒƒ Phobia
ƒƒ Conversion/Somatoform disorder
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ƒƒ Mood disorder ƒƒ Dissociative disorders

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•• Mania
•• Depreesion
ƒƒ OCD
ƒƒ Anxiety M
•• Bipolar disorders ○○ GAD
Panic disorders
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Important Terminology in Psychiatry PD
Term Used for
ƒƒ Frigidity ƒƒ Hypoactive sex desire S
ƒƒ Oniomania ƒƒ Compulsive buying
ƒƒ Oligophrenia ƒƒ Old word for mental retardation
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ƒƒ Intellectual disability ƒƒ Newer term for mental retardation
ƒƒ Alexithymia ƒƒ Inability to recognise and describe feeling.
ƒƒ Cyclothymia ƒƒ Persistent instability of mood, involving numerous periods of mild depression & mild elation, none of which has
been sufficiently severe or prolonged to fulfill the criteria for bipolar affective disorder or recurrent depressive
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disorder
ƒƒ Dysthymia ƒƒ Mild depression with chronic course ( 2 yrs) P
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Depersonalization → A change in the awareness of self in which the individual feels as if he is unreal.
Derealization → A change in the awareness of surrounding in which the individual feels as if the surrounding are unreal. L
‰‰ Intellectual disability (ID), aka general learning disability, and mental retardation (MR), is a generalized neurodevelopmental disorder
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characterized by significantly impaired intellectual activity (such as learning, problem solving, judgement) and adaptive functioning (activities
of daily life such as communication and independent living). E
‰‰ Submissiveness → Adaptation of one’s behavior to the actual or perceived interests and desires of others even when doing so anthithetical to
one’s own interests, needs, or desires. Submissiveness is a facet of the broad personality trait domain Negative Affectivity.
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These Updates are from Primes Supplement 2018