Study Guide for HP 412 Abnormal Behavior Final

Saturday, 12/20/16 from 12:30-2:30 PM in SAR 101

Posted Wednesday, January 21, 2017
This is a brief overview of content for the final exam. All lecture slides, content, and readings
are fair game. The exam will consist of 40 questions from across the entire semester. This
guide is a brief list to help you organize your studies. I would recommend that you be
integrative in your studying, including trends and comorbidities and relationship between
items on this list and the disorders. Regarding individual disorders, the specific statistics of
each are not as relevant as your ability to compare them to each other; e.g. anxiety is much
more prevalent than schizophrenia, alcohol use disorder is associated with depression, etc.
Know the risk factors, typical comorbidities, and basic symptoms of main disorders.
1. DSM 5 Diagnosis
a. What are the components of a DSM 5 diagnosis?
b. Why does National Institution of Mental Health prefer RDoC (research domain
criteria?) I will give you the answer. It is also on your slides.
c. Answer: RDoC is a research framework for new ways of studying mental
disorders. It integrates many levels of information (from genomics to self-report)
to better understand basic dimensions of functioning underlying the full range of
human behavior from normal to abnormal. (NIMH, 2016)
d. Differences between major mental disorders and personality disorders.
e. Why are medical disorders important to include in a psychiatric diagnosis?
2. Brain lecture with Miguel Cabezas: Neurons, neurotransmitters, brain structure
3. Neurotransmitters & cortisol/Relevance of stress reactions/Stress-Diathesis theory,
protective factors, impact on mental disorders
4. Comorbidities: psych diagnoses with other psychiatric diagnoses, and psychiatric
diagnoses with medical diagnoses and conditions
5. Mood disorders, including depressive disorders, SAD, schizoaffective, Bipolar I, II.
neurotransmitters, treatment, prognosis (online lecture on Depression with Robert
Sapolosky), comorbidities
6. Sleep patterns and disorders: typical sleep patterns and levels, types of disorders,
relevance to psychiatric disorders
7. Somatic symptom disorders: illness anxiety disorder, factitious disorder, factitious
disorder by proxy, conversion disorder, body dysmorphic disorder, others
8. Sexual functioning and disorders, by gender, prevalence, place in sexual response cycle.
Treatment. Gender identity disorders vs. gender dysphoria.

9. Suicide: risk factors, rates, gender differences, which disorders create most risk for
suicide.
10. Anxiety Disorders, including panic disorder, and treatments.
11. Dissociative Identity Disorder: who gets it? Why? Risk factors? Comorbidities?
12. Traumatic stress disorders: PTSD, ASD, Depersonalization/Depersonalization disorder.
Who is at risk; course, symptoms, treatment in each
13. Substance Use Disorders: Types of use, substances, symptoms and criteria for addiction,
neurotransmitters involved, treatment
14. Eating Disorders: AN, BN, BED, personal experience audio, Timothy Walsh lecture:
prevalence, risk factors. YouTube on ED not on exam.
15. Personality factors (FFM) and relevance to health, connection to personality disorders
16. Personality disorders: gender, types, comorbidities, examples. Treatments, esp DBT.
17. Schizophrenic disorders, symptoms, delusions, types, treatments. Main points from Kim
Mueser lecture content
18.
Psychiatric aspects of CTE/Mechanisms of depression in CTE: Man points from
Ian Maher lecture content