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• Inability to focus and attention being drawn to irrelevant stimuli is known as distractibility
• Excessive attention on all internal and external stimuli is referred to as hypervigilance
• Inability to describe or be aware of emotions or moods is called alexithymia
• Craving for and eating non-food substances is a condition known as pica
• Pathological irritation of movements of one person by another is termed echopraxia
• Restlessness, pacing, repeated sitting and standing due to antipsychotic medication is known as akathisia, also called restless leg syndrome
• A false belief, based on incorrect inference about external reality, is a delusion
• A belief that one’s thoughts can be heard by others is referred to as thought broadcasting
• Unconscious filling in gaps in memory by untrue experiences is called confabulation
• Understanding of objective reality, coupled with motivation and emotional impetus to change behavior or master the situation is termed true insight
• The circumstances that led to a patient’s behavioral change are recorded under history of present illness
• An initial impression as the patient’s insight is known as chief complaint
• Psychosocial events that precipitated the patient’s illness can be deduced through anamnesis
• Genetic predisposition of the patient to any physical or psychiatric condition can be inferred from the family medical history
• A person’s ability to fulfill physical and psychosocial developmental tasks is assessed through personal and social history
• Pieces of data like (-) nausea, vomiting; (-) dizziness are recorded under review of systems
• Data about the patient's birth circumstances, like being born to an 18-year-old single mother of an unplanned pregnancy, should be recorded under personal and social history
• Information about a patient's sleepless nights and crying over her mother's death during pregnancy should be recorded under history of present illness
• Data like “72-year-old, widow, Catholic, from Pampanga” is part of identifying data
• The ability of a patient to manage expression of sexual fantasies is assessed through impulse control
• The congruence of a patient's facial expression to the emotional content of their statements is evaluated under mood and affect
• The accuracy of a patient's details of historical data is assessed through reliability
• Assessing if a patient is dysphoric falls under mood and affect
• Evaluating if a patient can sustain focus on the task at hand is part of assessing sensorium
• Food rich in the amino acid tryptophan should be avoided when on treatment with monoamine oxidase inhibitor
• The tuberoinfundibular dopaminergic pathway is associated with hyperprolactinemia
• Clozapine is often reserved for treatment-resistant schizophrenia due to the risk of agranulocytosis
• The drug of choice to manage neuroleptic malignant syndrome is bromocriptine
• An acute adverse reaction characterized by muscular torsion in young males given neuroleptics is dystonia
• The therapeutic effects of typical antipsychotics are predominantly due to blockade of dopaminergic receptors
• Flumazenil is administered to reverse benzodiazepine overdose and oversedation
• Psychosocial processing after the eruption of a volcano is an example of secondary prevention
• Identifying and preventing depressive disorders in a COVID-19 patient is an example of secondary prevention
• Active friendliness is employed when the patient is shy
• The matter-of-fact approach is best applied to manipulative patients
• The Philippines Mental Health Act is also known as RA11036, passed on June 21, 2018
• Memantine influences the progression of dementia by protecting neurons from excessive amounts of glutamate
• Misuse refers to the use of a drug, usually self-administered, that deviates from a social or medical pattern
• The Dopaminergic theory of psychosis attributes symptoms like hyperactivity of the ventromedial mesocortical pathway to certain conditions
• DSM-5 Criterion A of Schizophrenia includes disorganized speech and inappropriate affect