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1. In her psychiatrist office, a patient suddenly lowers herself to the floor, begins flailing about wildlyl, then flings a garbage pail against the wall and runs out of the office. Immediatelyl afterward, she returns. She is alert and disoriented, yet does not remember the incident' What is the most likely diagnosis?
a. Temporal lobe epilepsy
b. Jacksonian seizure
c. tonic clonic seizure
d. complex partial seizure
e. pseudoseizure
2. A 27 year old man complains that he has felt down in the dumps for months and is feeling guilty because he has been having an extramarital affair. In recent weeks, he has started to believe his wife is poisoning his food and the rest of his family is involved in a n elaborate plot to drive him from the house.
I. assuming his thinking is delusional, how would his delusions be best characterized?
a. ego syntonic
b. bizarre
c. mood congruent
d. mood incongruent
II. what sort of diagnosis would these delusions most likely accompany?
a. schizophrenia
b. mania
c. major depressive disorder
d. dysthymia
e. adjustment disorder
3. which statement characterizing dementia is true?
a. subcortical dementias include alzheimer's disease and pick's disease
b. personality is relatively well preserved in the earlyl stages of cortical dementias
c. In the U.S., stroke is the leading cause of dementia
d. dementia commonly presents acutely
e. inability to attend is a key feature
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| Rasul
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1. E 2.C 3. C 4. E? or maybe C?
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| sobia naeem
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i agree with the above answers except for the last question whose answer is b.
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