Sally is extremely underweight and has a severely disturbed body image. She eats very little, but sometimes eats big meals and compensates through the use of laxatives. Jane is of normal weight and perceives herself as sort of heavy. She feels a lack of control over her eating habits and sometimes eats enough food for five people within an hour, but then compensates by vomiting. Sally would probably be diagnosed with __________, whereas Jane would probably be diagnosed with ___________.

Identify the best disorder description based on the graph below:  ADA Text

Parents of girls with Anorexia Nervosa tend to:

Edward is in the midst of a major depressive episode. He has just learned that his best friend is going through a divorce and feels responsible for it, even though he had nothing to do with it. Which symptom of depression is this?

For the vignette, please give a diagnosis and bullet point the symptoms that made you come to the diagnosis. Samuel is a 28-year-old, final-year medical student from the south-eastern region of Nigeria. He was declared missing for 10 days and then later seen in a city in southwestern Nigeria, a distance of about 634 km from his home. Ten days before his episode, while studying in his room alone at night, Samuel suddenly saw a full human skeleton reading at the same table with him, sitting at the opposite side. At the same time, he claimed he felt uneasy and quite uncomfortable. He saw the whole room turning with everything inside becoming unstable and unreal. After this experience, Samuel had overwhelming fears and did not know when he left the room. Two days later, he discovered he was with his younger sibling in south-western Nigeria. Samuel had no knowledge of how he made the journey that takes approximately eight hours by road. He equally could not remember where he slept the night he left his room, how he raised money for the journey, or the buses and routes he took. Samuel denied all memory of events for the 2 days from when he left his room at the university to the time he suddenly realized he was at his brother’s house, hours away. The brother, however, reported that Samuel appeared unkempt, and looked exhausted but was fully conscious and alert on arrival at his house without any assistance. Prior to this episode, Samuel had been under severe economic and academic pressures and had been worried that he might fail his final qualifying examinations in 3 months. He slept poorly at night, with his sleep had been marked by early morning wakefulness and waking up not feeling refreshed.

For the vignette, please give a diagnosis and bullet point the symptoms that made you come to the diagnosis. You see Jill (age 24) in the emergency room of a hospital where her parents have brought her for evaluation. They are worried because she is giving away all of her possessions and says she is planning to move to Seattle so she can “save the world.” Her parents say that she has hardly been sleeping at all, but she seems very energetic. They say she has appeared to be “in a frenzy” for the last week or so. When you interview Jill, you notice that she speaks very rapidly. It is hard to get her to be quiet long enough for you to ask questions. She seems agitated and has difficulty sitting still.

Identify the disorder below and bullet point the symptoms that made you come to the diagnosis. There is only one answer. Lonnie is a 15-year-old Italian male, lives with his biological mother and stepfather. His biological father is an addict and rarely sees Lonnie. Lonnie has a history of defiance, lying, stealing money from parents/teachers/kids, refusing to do chores, has lengthy tantrums, little emotion, and no remorse. At age 11, he began ditching school, watching pornography with friends in home when parents at work, and has a pervasive, chronic pattern of violation of the rights of others, violent fights, breaks into house during the day to watch porn with his friends, which caused $20,000 worth of damage. His parents called the police for the first time and filed charges with a therapist’s urging to do so.

Blake has a hard time with any kind of fine motor coordination. Even though he is seven years old, he can barely button a shirt, he cannot tie his own shoes, and he struggles to grasp a pencil appropriately. Blake has which learning disorder?

Identify the disorder below and bullet point the symptoms that made you come to the diagnosis. There is only one answer. Mrs. J is a 69-year-old Caucasian woman who presents with symptoms of forgetfulness. She has trouble remembering names and the location of certain keys on her keyboard. Her past medical history includes uncomplicated shingles and treatment with prednisone for temporal arteritis between the ages of 65 to 67. Consequently, she has been taking calcium supplements as well as low doses of thyroid replacement therapy. Twenty months later, she is reassessed and reports that her memory impairment has worsened and is now embarrassing her. She has stopped working in an office and her husband has observed her to be more irritable as well as nervous.

Individuals with autism tend to have a ____ corpus callosum and fewer ____ cells, which relate to behavioral inhibition.