aphasia Answer: impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage either to Broca's area (impairing speaking) or to Wernicke's area (impairing understanding).

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Apraxia Answer: impaired ability to carry out motor activities despite intact motor function

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Agnosia Answer: the inability to recognize familiar objects.

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Buspirone (Buspar) Answer: Takes 2 - 4 weeks for full effect

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Phenelzine Diet Answer: Low thiamine content

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Serotonin Syndrome Answer: Symptoms include diarrhea, fever, increased sweating, and tachycardia

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Stress Reduction Techniques Answer: Incorporate deep breathing exercises

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Anxiety Signs and Symptoms

Answer: Tremors, diaphoresis, increased blood pressure;

feeling of impending doom

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Anxiety Answer: Poor coping skills, or have been subjected to extensive periods of stress, may become debilitating.

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Dementia Answer: Slow onset, permanent condition

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Hallucination or Delusion Answer: Do not engage or reinforce, meaning do not play along.

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Safety Measures with seclusion

Answer: Seclusion for self and others' protection; dementia patients at risk for injury

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Lamotrigine - Side Effect Answer: Skin rash

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OCD Patient Answer: Engages in repetitive rituals and compulsions; obsessions relieve tension, while compulsions build tension

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Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) Priority Answer: Safety first - watch for sudden changes, becoming calm or cheerful, asses for suicide.

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Suicide Risk Signs

Answer: Giving away belongings, informing happiness; medication may elevate risk due to more energy to carry out the plan

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Therapeutic Level for Lithium Answer: 0.6 - 1.

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Lithium Caution Answer: Watch out for dehydration

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Confabulation Answer: Creating fictional stories due to memory impairment

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Delirium Behaviors Answer:

May exhibit opposite or unusual actions

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Lorazepam and Alcohol Answer: Dangerous combination

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Mini mental Status Exam - MMSE Answer: designed to assess a patient's cognitive functioning. Maximum is 30, anything lower than 23 is indicative of cognitive impairment.

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Alprazolam Answer: Do not consume alcohol

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Bipolar 1 Manic State Answer: High self-esteem, reduced need for sleep, actions with disastrous consequences.

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bipolar 1 depression Answer: Hopeless, no energy, no interest in anything, no appetite, suicidal thoughts.

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Panic attacks patients Answer: Place them in a calm quiet room.

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defense mechanisms Answer: Denial - not happening, nothing is wrong Rationalization - it's your fault, I hit you because you provoked me.

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) Answer: a disorder characterized by chronic excessive worry accompanied by three or more of the following symptoms: restlessness, fatigue, concentration problems, irritability, muscle tension, and sleep disturbances.

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Serotonin syndrome symptoms Answer: Delirium, tachycardia, hyperreflexia, seizures, agitation, sweating, muscle spasms, tremors

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Serotonin syndrome medical emergency Answer: Avoid all serotonin containing meds for 14 days. Rapid onset. 2-72 hours after treatment begins.

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Phenelzine Answer: MAOI

no foods containing tyramine - preserved meats, aged cheese, wine

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Valproic Acid (Depakote) Answer: Major depressive disorder, run basic liver function tests, STRESS - to use birth control.

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Delirium Answer: Rapid onset, reversible condition