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Psychiatry Methodical
Psychiatry department
L.I. Zakharova
Methodological recommendations
for students to be used in the course of psychiatry
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1. Psychiatry as a subject. Definition of psychiatry.
An importance of psychiatry for doctors of all specialities.
1. Psychiatry is that branch of medicine dealing with mental disorder and its
treatment. The word derived from psyche, the Greek word for soul or mind, and
iatros, which is Greek for healer.
Mental disease is the disease of the brain, characterized by positive & negative
symptoms & global changes of behavior & personality.
Positive symptoms are those symptoms that are added to the clinical picture,
including delusions, hallucinations, agitation...
Negative symptoms are characteristics of the patient that are subtracted from the
clinical picture, including such as poverty of thought & content of speech, social
withdrawal & others.
Precipitating factors are those that arise just before a psychiatric disorder starts, and
which appear to have precipitated it (e.g. life events).
Practical skills
Lesson 2
Theme: Disorders of perception, thinking, sensory synthesis
Plan
I. Paranoiac
4) Confabulations
III. Paraphrenic
1) Symptoms of paranoid syndrome
2) Grandious delusion
IV. Cotards syndrome
Practical skills
Student should be able
-to reveal disorders of perception and thinking in a patient
- to describe the disorders in special terms
- to assess the severity of the disorders (psychotic or neurotic levels)
1. Definition of illusions.
2. Definition of hallucination and pseudohallucinations. Different
features of them.
3. Description of special types of hallucinations.
4. Name different kinds of formal disorders of thoughts.
5. Definition of delusion.
6. Differential criteria of overvalued ideas and delusional ideas.
7. Differential criteria of obsessional ideas and delusional ideas.
8. Name main kinds of delusions.
9. escribe the phenomena which occur in disorders of sensory synthesis.
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10. Definition of derealization and depersonalization.
Lesson 3
Theme: Disorders of memory, attention and concentration,
Plan
1. Disorders of memory (amnesia, hypermnesia, paramnesia).
2. Disorders of attention and concentration.
3. Disorders of emotions and mood.
4. Disorders of will-activity (hypo- and hyperbulia, parabulia).
5. Disorders of insight.
1. There are a number of components to memory which should be assessed.
Immediate recall can be assessed by asking the patient to repeat immediately a
sequence of digits. Registration can be assessed by giving the patient a name and
address and asking him to repeat them. The patient is asked to repeat this name and
address 5 minutes later, and mistakes are again recorded; this is a test of short-term
memory. Memory for recent events can be assessed by asking the patient to recall
important news items from the previous 2 days. Long-term memory is assessed more
formally by asking the patient to recall his date and place of birth.
Amnesia is the inability to recall past experiences, whereas in Hypermnesia the
degree of retention and recall is exaggerated.
Paramnesia is a distorted recall leading to falsification of memory. E.g.
confabulation - gaps in the memory which are unconsciously filled with false
memories, as occurs in amnesic (Korsakov's) syndrome. Pseudoreminiscence is a
wrong memory of real events which took place in past. In this case patient recallects
events in the wrong way. Criptomnesia is a disorder of a such
memory process as recognition/ A person has no the feeling of familiarity indicating
that some persons, events and objects have been encountered before. This memories
seem quite new to him.
2. Attention and concentration can be checked by the serial sevens test, in
which the patient is asked to subtract 7 from 100 and repeatedly subtract 7
from the remainder as fast as possible, giving the answer at each stage. The
time taken to reach a remainder less than 7 is noted. (The correct answers are
93, 86, 79, 72, 65...). if this proves too difficult, perhaps because of poor
arithmetical skills, a similar test using 3 instead of 7 (serial threes) can be
given. If this also proves too difficult, the patient can be asked to recite the
days of week or months of the year backwards. Since concentration is
sustained attention the serial sevens can be administered first, and if the patient
copes adequately there is no need to check attention separately. Disorders of
attention include distractability, in which the attention is drawn too frequently
to unimportant or irrelevant external stimuli. If the patient is unable to attend to
the task at hand, this should be noted, together with how easily he or she is
aroused. In selective inattention anxiety-provoking stimuli are blocked out.
3. Mood is defined as "a pervasive and sustained emotion that, in the
extreme, markedly colors the person's perception of the world". An objective
assessment should be made of the quality of the mood, based on the history,
appearance, behaviour and posture of the patient. A subjective assessment of
the quality of the mood as described by the patient can be obtained by asking a
question such as :How do you feel in yourself?", or "How do you feel in your
spirits?".
A dysphoric mood is an unpleasant mood. In depression the patient has low or
depressed mood. This may be accompanied by anhedonia, in which the patient loses
the ability to enjoy regular and pleasurable activities and no longer has any interest in
them. In normal grief or mourning, the sadness is appropriate to the loss. If the
patient appears depressed, the presence of depressive thoughts should be probed
Practical skills
Student should be able
-to reveal disorders of memory, will, and emotion in a patient
- to describe the disorders in special terms
- to assess the severity of the disorders
Lesson 4
Theme: Disorders of consciousness, orientation, and psychomotor activity.
Disorders of intelligence (IQ)
1. Disorders of consciousness.
2. Kinds of orientation and their disorders.
3. Disorders of psychomotor activity.
4. Disorders of intelligence (IQ).
1. Consciousness is awareness of the self and the environment. Terms, using for
description of impaired consciousness:
- Coma is the most extreme form. The patient shows no external evidence of
mental activity and little motor activity other than breathing. He does not
respond even to strong stimuli.
- Sopor is a state in which the person can be aroused only by strong
stimulation.
- clouding of consciousness is a state, in which the person is drowsy and reacts
incompletely to stimuli. Attention, concentration, and memory are impaired
Practical skills
Student should be able
-to reveal disorders of consciousness, orientation psychomotor activity and
intelligence in a patient;
- to describe the disorders in special terms;
- to assess the severity of the disorders.
1. Definition of consciousness.
2. Kinds of the disorders of the quantity of consciousness.
3. Kinds of the disorders of the quality of consciousness.
4. Name criteria of coma, sopor, clouding of consciousness.
5. What kinds of orientation do you know?
6. What motor symptoms can occur in schizophrenia?
7. What motor symptoms can occur in organic brain syndrome?
8. Definition of intelligence.
9. Name congenital disorders of intelligence.
10. Name acquired disorders of intelligence.
Lesson 5
Theme: Organic, including symptomatic mental disorders. Dementia
Plan
1. Organic, including symptomatic mental disorders. Definition according to
the ICD-10.
2. Primary degenerative dementia in Alzheimer's disease. Macroscopical,
histological, biochemical and microscopical changes; clinical features.
3. Primary degenerative dementia in Parkinson's disease. Macroscopical,
histological, biochemical and microscopical changes; clinical features.
4. Primary degenerative dementia in Pick's disease. Macroscopical,
histological, biochemical and microscopical changes; clinical features.
5. Primary degenerative dementia in Huntington's chorea. Macroscopical,
histological, biochemical and microscopical changes; clinical features.
6. Primary degenerative dementia in Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease.
Macroscopical, histological, biochemical and microscopical changes;
clinical features.
7. Vascular dementia. Macroscopical, histological, biochemical and
microscopical changes; clinical features.
8. HIV disease dementia.
Alzheimer's disease is the commonest cause of dementia in people over the age
of 65. The same pathological changes take place in both the senile (onset over the age
of 65) and the presenile form (onset under the age of 65). Macroscopically there is
global atrophy of the brain, which is shrunken with widened sulci and ventricular
enlargement. The atrophy is usually most marked in the frontal and temporal lobes.
Hystologically there is neuronal loss, shinkage of dendritic branching and a reactive
astrocytosis in the cerebral cortex. Other features include the presence, particularly in
the cerebral cortex, of neurofibrillary tangles; the presence mainly in the cortex, of
Electron microscopy reveals that each neuritic plaque contains an amyloid core
made of a protein known as A4 or P-amyloid. The gene coding for the A4 or [3-
amyloid has been cloned and localized to the long arm of chromosome 21.
Biochemically, in the post mortem brain there is reduced activity of both
acetylcholinesterase and choline acetyltransferase.
Clinical features. The disease is usually begins with memory loss. Other clinical
features may include: apathy or lability of mood; progressive impairment of
intellectual functioning; progressive deterioration of personality; features typical of
parietal lobe dysfunction; paranoid features; parkinsonism; the mirror sign, in which
individuals may fail to recognize their own reflection; disorders of speech such as
logoclonia and echolalia; epilepsy; and aspects of the Kluver-Bucy syndrome, which
includes hyperorality, hypersexuality, hyperphagia and placidity.
Practical skills
Student should be able
-to reveal organic brain disorders in a patient;
- to differentiate dementias with different aetiological factors;
- to assess the severity of the disorders;
- to describe mental status in patients with dementia.
Lesson 6
Theme: Organic amnesic syndrome, delirium, other mental disorders due to brain
damage or dysfunction: organic hallucinosis, organic delusional disorder, organic
mood disorder, organic anxiety disorder). Personality and behavioural
disorder due to the brain disease
Alzheimer's disease.
Practical skills
Student should be able
-to reveal organic brain disorders in a patient;
- to differentiate dementias with different etiological factors;
- to assess the severity of the disorders;
- to describe mental status in patients with organic syndromes.
Questions for control
1. Definition of amnesic syndrome.
2. Etiological factors which lead to the development of amnesic syndrome.
3. Definition of delirium.
4. Management of delirium.
5. Definition of organic hallucinosis. Causes of it.
6. Definition of organic mood disorders. Causes of it.
7. Definition of organic anxiety disorders. Causes of it.
8. Clinical picture of organic personality disorders.
Lesson 7
Theme: Schizophrenia
Plan
1. Schizophrenia. Definition. Epidemiology.
2. Classification (ICD-10).
3. Clinical features. Clinical forms (paranoid, hebephrenic, catatonic,
undifferentiated, residual, postschizophrenic depression, simple
schizophrenia).
4. Etiology (hypotheses).
5. Neurophysiological, neuropsychological, biochemical abnormalities in
schizophrenia.
6. Course and prognosis.
7. Treatment of the disease.
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birth, - delusions of bodily change; - delusions of jealousy; - hallucinatory voices;
dementia
- non-verbal auditory hallucinations; - hallucinations in other
Hebephrenic schizophrenia. - irresponsible and unpredictable behaviour;
Deterioration of -rambling
and incoherent speech; - affective changes; - poorly organized delusions; - fleeting
and fragmentary hallucinations. Catatonic intellectual functioning
schizophrenia, -presence of catatonic
in Aonset;
symptoms. Simple schizophrenia. - an insidious - Alzheimers
'negative' symptoms develop
without the prior occurrence of 'positive' symptoms.
disease and B
Residual or chronic schizophrenia is preceded by one of the above types and is
characterized by 'negative' symptoms.
Vascular dementia
4. Etiology. Predisposing factors include genetic, prenatal, perinatal and
personality factors. Precipitating factors include psychosocial stresses. Perpetuating
factors include patient's family and social factors. Mediating factors may include
neurotransmitters and neurodegeneration, and psychoneuroimmunological and
psychoneuroendocrinological factors.
Genetics. Family studies, twin studies, and adoption studies support the
hypothesis that there is an important genetic component to schizophrenia.
Prenatal factors. Schizophrenia is more common in those born in the late winter
and early spring months. It is particularly common in those exposed prenatally to
influenza epidemic between 3rd and 7th months of gestation (maternal viral infection).
Perinatal factors. Obstetric complications during birth.
Personality. Those with schizotypical personality disorder have peculiarities and
anomalies in ideation, appearance, speech and behaviour, deficits in interpersonal
relationships. There is more common in the first-degree relatives (consider to be part
of a genetic), spectrum of schizophrenia.
Psychosocial stressors. Life events may act as precipitating factors in a person
Lesson 8
Theme: Mood disorders
Churchill Livingstone,
Edinburgh).
7. The sex ratio is equal. The point prevalence of bipolar disorder is between
0.4 and 1% in general population. The life-time risk in general population is
0.6-1.1%.
The average age of onset is around the mid 20s.
The incidence of depressive disorder is between 80 and 200 new cases per 100 000 of
the population per year in men and between 250 and 7800 new cases per 1000 000 of
the population in women. The point prevalence of depressive symptoms is much
higher, at up to 20%. The life-time risk in general population is 5-12% in men and 9-
26% in women. The average age of onset is around the late 30s but it can start at any
age from childhood onwards.
Lesson 9
Theme: Neurotic stress-related disorders
Plan
2. Agoraphobia. Fear not only of open spaces but also of related aspects, such as the
presence of crowds and difficulty of immediate easy escape back to a safe place,
usually home.
Agoraphobia is the cause of 60% of the phobic patients. Over two-thirds are female.
They are often married and have high incidence of sexual problems. Some
individuals may abuse alcohol or drugs in an effort to overcome their phobia.
3. Social phobia. Fear of scrutiny by other people in comparatively small groups (as
opposed to crowds), leading to avoidance of social situations.
Social phobia occurs in 3-4% of the general population. It is associated with panic
disorder and other anxiety disorder. The age of onset is 20-35 years.
Thought alienation
It occurs in 1-2% of the general population, more commonly in females. The age of
onset is usually 20-40 years. There is an evidence of a genetic inherited
predisposition. Treatment: - psychological: cognitive-behavioural, exposure
techniques, anxiety management techniques; drugs: antidepressants - selective
serotonine (5-ht) reuptake inhibitors, benzodiazepines.
Generalized anxiety disorder. Generalized and persistent 'free floating' anxiety
symptoms involving elements of:
Mixed anxiety and depressive disorder. Symptoms of anxiety and depression are both
present but neither clearly predominate. Treatment: cognitive therapy,
antidepressants, minor tranquillizers.
Lesson 10
Theme: Personality disorders
Plan
1. Personality disorders definition.
2. Paranoid personality disorder.
3. Schizoid personality disorder.
4. Dissocial personality disorder.
5. Emotionally unstable personality disorder.
6. Histrionic personality disorder.
7. Anankastik personality disorder.
Plan
1. Definition of sleep
2. Classification of sleep disorders.
3. Nonorganic insomnia. Aetiology, epidemiology, clinical picture, differential
diagnosis.
4. Nonorganic hypersomnia. Aetiology, epidemiology, clinical picture, differential
diagnosis.
5. Nonorganic disorder of the sleep wake schedule. Aetiology, epidemiology,
clinical picture, differential diagnosis.
6. Heepwalking. Aetiology, epidemiology, clinical picture, differential diagnosis.
7. Sleep terrors. Aetiology, epidemiology, clinical picture, differential diagnosis.
8. Nightmares. Aetiology, epidemiology, clinical picture, differential diagnosis.
Insomnia.
Aetiology.
Predisposing factors.
The complaint is more common in lower socioeconomic groups. Individual
differences in body temperature, shin resistance and corticosteroid excretion have
been associated with variation in frequency the degree to which an individual
complains of insomnia.
Precipitating factors.
Transient insomnia is usually the result of:The1) treatment of
some environmental changes or a
change in the work rest pattern (poor sleep hygiene, change
arachnophobia by in time zone, change in
sleeping habits, shift work); 2) emotional crisis (bereavement, exams, house move
etc). systematic desensitization.
There are individual preferences in noise Atlevel,
eachlight
stage
and of the
temperature levels for
sleep. Generally sleep is likely to be disturbedhierarchy
at a temperature of more
of stimulus than 24 C. A
change in temperature may also evoke an episode of insomnia.
causing
Ingestion of pharmacologically active foods increasing
and drinks, especially caffeine and
anxiety,
alcohol, may disrupt sleep. Some drugs, particularly the subject
stimulants, may cause insomnia
either directly or as a result of ride-effects (akathisia
practices -restless legs of with
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phenothiazines).
Withdrawal from alcohol or hypnoticsrelaxationmay also training
reduce sleep or produce
alterations that increase waking. The use of very short acting hypnotics may
produce rebound waking in the middle of the night.
Although most chronic insomnias are related to medical, psychiatric or
behavioral problems, some people experience prolonged poor sleep without any
obvious disturbance in any of these areas (primary chronic insomnia) and can occur
with daytime sleepiness and\or impairment of mood and well being. It is though
that this is either associated with as yet undetected changes in sleep architecture, or is
part of the range of individual differences (chronic insomnia secondary to organic
factors is any condition that involves pain).
Perpetuating factors.
Transient insomnia may progresses to chronic insomnia if there is poor sleep hygiene
or if a vicious cycle is set up of worry about the lack of sleep leading to anxiety
symptoms which lead to further waking and difficulty settling.
Management.
1) Sleep hygiene is the basis of a preventive strategy.
Comparison.
Nightmares Sleep terrors
Sleep stage RCM (oc 1-2) Stage 3-4
Time of night Middle and late sleep Mostly 1-2 hours after
sleep starts
A night terror, occurring as it does in stage 3-4 sleep usually happens 1-2 hours
after going to sleep.
Typically a child will sit up in bed with a loud cry or scream and will continue to
cry, cream or chatter incoherently. The is usually pale clammy has dilated pupils and
may thrash around. There is hypertension during an attack. As little is usually
remembered the next day, the experience is more disturbing for the observer than for
the individual.
Nightmares, in contrast, are more clearly remembered. The waking may have
occurred at a time of motor activity in the dream.
Epidemiology.
1-4% of children, much less common in adulthood.
Aetiology.
Night terrors are sometimes familial. They can be reproduced by some
benzodiazepines antagonists.
They can be associated with upper airway obstruction and can disappear with
adenoidectomy.
Nightmares may be negative dreams (depression, stress anxiety).
Management.
Lesson 12
Theme: Epilepsy
Plan
1. Definitions.
2. International classification of epileptic seizures.
3. Preictal and ictal symptoms.
4. Personality disturbances in epilepsy
5. EEG changes in epilepsy
Epilepsy is the most common chronic neurological disease in the general
population, affecting about 1% of the population. For psychiatrists the major
concerns regarding epilepsy are consideration of an epileptic diagnosis in psychiatric
patients, psychological and cognitive effects of commonly used antiepileptic drugs.
30-50% of all epileptic persons have psychiatric difficulties sometime during the
course of their illness. The most common behavioural symptom of epilepsy is a
change in personality; psychosis, violence and depression are much less common
symptoms of an epileptic disorder.
Definitions
A seizure is a transient paroxysmal pathological disturbance of cerebral function that
is caused by a spontaneous, excessive discharge of neurons. Epilepsy is a chronic
condition characterized by recurrent seizures. The ictus or ictal event of seizure is the
seizure itself. The nonictal time periods can be categorized as preictal, posictal and
interictal. The symptoms present during the ictal event are primarily determined by
the site of origin in the brain for the seizure and by the pattern of the spread of the
seizure activity through the brain.
Classification
The two major categories of seizures are partial and generalized. Partial seizures
involve epileptiform activity in localized brain regions; generalized seizures involve
the entire brain.
International classification of epileptic seizures.
I. Partial seizures (seizures beginning locally)
A. Partial seizures with elementary symptoms generally without
impairment of consciousness
Generalized seizures
Generalized tonic-clonic seizures have the classic symptoms of loss of consciousness,
generalized tonic-clonic movements of the limbs, tongue biting and incontinence.
The period of recovery from a generalized tonic-clonic seizure ranges from a few
minutes to many hours. The clinical picture is that of a gradually clearing delirium.
Absences (petit mal)
The epileptic nature of the episodes may go unrecognized, because the characteristic
motor or sensory manifestations of epilepsy may be absent. Petit mal epilepsy usually
begins in childhood between the ages of 5 and 7 years. Brief disruptions of
consciousness, during which the patient suddenly loses contact with the environment,
are characteristic of petit mal. The EEG produces a characteristic pattern of three-per-
second spike and wave-activity.
Adult onset petit mal epilepsy is characterized by sudden, recurrent psychotic
episodes or deliriums that appear and disappear abruptly. The symptoms may be
accompanied by a history of falling or fainting spells.
Partial seizures
are classified as either simple (without alterations in consciousness) or complex (with
alterations in consciousness).
Symptoms
1. Preictal symptoms. Preictal events (auras) in complex partial epilepsy include
automatic sensations (e.g. fullness of stomach, blushing, changing in
respirations), cognitive sensations (e.g. dj vu, jamais vu, forced thinking and
Personality disturbances
The most frequent psychiatric abnormalities reported in epileptic patients are
personality disorders, and they are especially likely to occur in patients with epilepsy
of temporal lobe origin. The most common features are changes in sexual behaviour,
a quality usually called viscosity of personality, religiosity and a heightened
experience of emotions.
Changes in sexual behaviour may be manifested by hypersexuality; deviations in
sexual interest, such as fetishism and transvestism; and, most commonly,
hyposexuality. The hyposexuality is characterized both by lack of interest in sexual
matters and by reduced sexual arousal. Some patients with the onset of complex
partial epilepsy before puberty may fail to reach a normal level of sexual interest after
puberty.
The symptoms of viscosity is usually most noticeable in a patients conversation,
which is likely to be slow, serious, ponderous, pedantic, overly replete with
nonessential details, and often circumstantial. The listener may grow bored but be
unable to find a courteous and successful way to disengage from the conversation.
The speech tendencies are often mirrored in the patients writing, resulting in a
symptom known as hypergraphia.
Religiosity may be sticking and may be manifested not only by increased
participation in overly religious activities, but also by unusual concern for moral and
ethical issues, preoccupation with right and wrong and heightened interest in global
and philosophical concerns.
Violence. Episodic violence has been a problem in some patients with epilepsy,
especially epilepsy of temporal and frontal lobe origin.
Violence may be a manifestation of the seizure itself or interictal psychopathology.
Mood disorders. Depression, mania are seen less often in epilepsy than in
schizophrenic disorder.
The mood disorder symptoms that do occur tend to be episodic and occur most often
when the epileptic foci affect the temporal lobe of the nondominant cerebral
hemisphere.
Increased incidence of attempted suicide.
Psychotic symptoms
Schizophrenia like interictal episodes can occur in patients with epilepsy,
particularly those with temporal lobe origins.
Lesson 13
Theme: Non-organic eating disorders
Plan
Eating disorders
Eating disorders are behavioral syndromes that develop in individuals who
manifest a broad spectrum of psychological, biological & sociocultural
characteristics. They include anorexia nervosa & bulimia nervosa.
Anorexia nervosa
Anorexia nervosa is characterized by a profound disturbance of body image &
relentless pursuit of thinness.
The disorder is much more prevalent in females than in males & usually has its
onset in adolescence. Hypotheses of it in young women with the disorder include
conflicts surrounding in the transition from a girl to a woman.
The diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa
1. Refusal to maintain body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for age &
height (e.g. weight loss leading to maintenance of body weight less than 85% of
that expected; or failure to make expected weight gain during period of growth,
leading to body weight less than 85% of expected)
2. Intensive fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, even though underweight
3. Disturbance in the way in which ones body weight or shape is experienced; undue
influence of body weight or shape on self-evaluation; or denial of the seriousness
of current low body weight
4. In postmenarchal females amenorrhea, i.e. the absence of at least three
(consecutive) menstrual cycles. A women is considered to have amenorrhea if her
periods occur only following hormone, e.g. estrogen, administration
Specify types
Restricting type: During the episode of anorexia nervosa the person does not
regularly engage in binge eating or purging behavior (i.e. self-induced
vomiting or the misuse of laxatives or diuretics)
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