Usmle Behavioral Science Mnemonics

Stages of normal grief:

DABDA

Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance

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Sleep stages: features

- DElta waves during DEepest sleep (stages 3 & 4, slow-wave)

- dREaM during REM sleep.

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Cluster personality disorders

Cluster A Disorder = Atypical. Unusual and eccentric.

Cluster B Disorder = Beast. Uncontrolled wildness.

Cluster C Disorder = Coward [avoidant type], Compulsive [obsessive-compulsive type], or Clingy [dependent type].

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My CHEF has Narcolepsy Symptoms.

Cataplexy
Hypnogogic or hypnopompic hallucinations,
Excessive daytime sleepiness,
Fragmentation of sleep during night

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For Borderline personality disorder
PRAISE
P-Paranoid
R-relationship instability
A-anger outburts
I-Impulsive
S-suicidal
E-Emptiness feeling

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Autistic disorder: features
AUTISTICS:
Again and again (repetitive behavior)
Unusual Abilities
Talking (language) delay
IQ subnormal
Social development poor
Three years onset
Inherited component [35% concordance]
Cognitive impairment
Self injury

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Panic disorder..
P..Palpitation
A..Abdominal pain
N—nausea
I….Increased perspiration
C…Chest pain,choking & chills.

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1)Male erectile dysfunction (MED): biological causes
MED:
Medicines(propranalol, methyldopa, SSRI, etc.)
Ethanol
Diabetes mellitus

2)REM: features
REM:
Rapid pulse/ Respiratory rate
Erection
Mental activity increase/ Muscle paralysis

3)Impotence causes
PLANE:
Psychogenic: performance anxiety
Libido: decreased with androgen deficiency, drugs
Autonomic neuropathy: impede blood flow redirection
Nitric oxide deficiency: impaired synthesis, decreased blood pressure
Erectile reserve: can’t maintain an erection

4)Male Erectile Dysfunction (MED): drugs causing it
"STOP erection":
SSRI (fluoxtine)
Thioridazone
methyldOpa
Propranalol

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1. dopamine = increased in doping, dope = addiction pathway is a dopamine pathway = yout get dopamine shots in your accumbens with doping

2. dopamine comes with nicotine, cafeine, amphetamine and cocaine and inhibits prolactine

3. drug induced parkinson disease = too much drugs (and previous dopamine) lead to too little dopamine (parkinson, rigidity) = frozen addict syndrome = you diped syour accumbens o much in dopamine that you became rigid, lost all your dopamine in subst nigra

doping ethymologically comes form doop = holland meaning souse, to dip => something you like, enjoy or you are addicted to gives you more dopamine

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Not really a mnemonic but something to remember the tests by….

CASE-CONTROL if its a case u already have a disease right and of course a control so what can u get CAUSE? RETOSPECTIVELY?So what are the ODDS that this is the cause of the disease is what Case -control tells. HERE GOES.

case control ——— ODDS RATIO.

COHORT STUDY if u start with risk factors in exposed and unexposed of cause already there what u get is the DISEASES. sO WHAT ARE THE RISK FACTOR THAT MIGHT CAUSE THE DISEASE EHH?

cohort study———- RELATIVE RISKS AND ABSOLUTE RISK.

THE ONLY c LEFT IS CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY SO IT GOES WITH chi SQ.

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