IMP.Psychiatric Topics.

1) "ANXIETY---anxiety is usually viewed as repressed or forgotten -fear ,features--hyperventilation,cold extremities,palpitations,pupillary dilatation,…..ANXIETY NEUROSIS---acute restlessness & fear of impending doom , anti -anxiety effect--chlorpromazine,TCA,BZD.,"------------((5))

2) "COCAINE---coined by FREUD.,jet black pigmentation of tongue with tactile hallucination ,creeping sensation,COCAINE-BUGS---sensation of bugs crawling all over the body"-----------((5))

3) "DELIRIUM---illusions with loss of consciousness,acute delerium-impaired consciousness, visual hallucination, hyperactivity& Fragmentary Delusions,"-------------((5))

4) "FREUD---introduced ---Cocaine , Psychoanalysis , concept of ""SUPER-EGO"" , free association , "" OEDIPUS COMPLEX""--by sigmund freund"----------((5))

5) "ANOREXIA NERVOSA---amenorroea-100%,phobic avoidance of normal wt.,wt.loss seen,over perception of body image,self induced vomiting ,excessive exercise,evident psychosis,least characteristic--decreased physical activity,false-decreased appetite,"-----------((4))

6) "CANNABIS---medical purposes/uses-in-Epilepsy ,glaucoma,nausea,Flash black phenomenon,.CANNABIS ADDICTION---symptomatic,Rx not req.,JHAGNAN phenomenon seen,"-------------((4))

7) "DEFENSE MECHANISIMS---MATURE defense mech.-->Projection & Altruism,IMP.defense mech.-->Repression,RATIONALIZATION-->drinks due to quarrel with wife ,"------------((4))

8) "DELIRIUM TREMENS---altered cons. ,tremors & visual hallucinations ,DOC.-diazepam."---------((4))

9) "EGO---works on realitiy principle , EGO DEFENSE MECHANISMS---""undoing""-seen in--OCN, Picasso synd.--Sublimation, Projection , Conversion,Reaction formation, "-----------((4))

10) "FUGUE---& DISOCIATIVE FUGUE--- seen in Schizophrenia , hysteria,epilepsy,wandering purposefully with some amnesia, "-----------((4))

11) "KORSAKOFF'S PSYCHOSIS---long term memory loss ,fes.--loss of Intellectual function but preservation of memory, lack of insight, unable to understand the disability, it is a REVERSIBLE state, CONFABULATION seen,Rx--VIT.B1(THIAMINE)"-------------((4))

12) "MENTAL RETARDATION---commonest cause--Birth Asphyxia ( Intellectual deficiency ),MENTALLY ILL---commonest mental illness in Chlidren --Neuroses,"------------((4))

13) "NEUROSIS---defective childhood experiences & adjustments & mild mental disorder , NEUROTIC DISORDERS---Anxiety, Hysteria, Phobia, OCN, "-------------((4))

14) "BULIMIA NERVOSA---episodes of excessive&uncontrolled eating , carries teeth , inducing vomiting,"----------((3))

15) "CATATONIA---FES.-automatic obedience,cataplexy,negativism,is seen in Schizophrenia,CATATONIA STUPOROUS---waxy flexibility is characteristic."---------((3))

16) "CONFABULATION---making stories to fill up gaps in memory loss , seen in alcoholism ,korsakoff psychosis"--------((3))

17) "FLASH BACK PHENOMENON---seen in Cannabis , Psilocybin , LSD.,"---------((3))

18) "HYPERKINETIC DISORDER---LOW I.Q., low Attention SPAN, poor impulse control, increase in Anger outburst, DOC-AMPHETAMINE.,"------------((3))

19) "LSD--Flash Blacks & Bad Trips , LSD Intoxication--> panic,confusion,Hyperreflexia, "------------((3))

20) "NOCTURNAL ENURESIS---DOC.-Imipramine, occurs in Stage IV sleep , "------------((3))

21) "OPIOID WITHDRAWAL---Rx nonaddicting drug -->Clonidine is used, OPIUM WTHDRAWAL---fes.-Lacrimation"---------((3))

22) "ORGANIC BRAIN SYND.---Visual Hallucination, Disorientation seen , bender gestalt test"---------((3))

23) "PANIC DISORDERS---DOC.--Diazepam, sudden attacks of anxiety with fear"-----------((3))

24) "PSYCHOANALYSIS---coined by Freud , this Tech. Used in Hypnosis,"-------------((3))

25) "SUICIDAL TENDENCIES---least in married person, Due to Withdrawal from Cocaine,Amphetamine,Alcohol, SUICIDE---most prone among -Adolecscent Girls,"------------((3))