Patients with schizophrenia who take antipsychotic medications sometimes develop severe side effects such as akinesia, a Parkinsonian symptom that includes all of the following EXCEPT
a. hand tremors
b. hand tremors.
c. slowed movements.
d. monotonous speech.
a
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a. malformations of the arms and legs. b. a small head, heart defects, and irritability. c. attention deficit disorder and die from sudden infant death syndrome. d. complications at birth and neurological deficits.
Polly has gone in for a psychiatric assessment. She tells the clinician that she has been feeling anxious and apprehensive lately and is fearful of leaving her own home. The clinician would classify these abnormal behaviors using:
a. DSM b. MMPI c. NEO-PI d. TAT
Sunyi says, "Arya is going." What is the earliest approximate age that Sunyi should be able to use this sentence?
A. Eighteen to twenty-four months B. Twelve months C. Three years D. Five years
Tom, aged 52, has less sexual vigor and fewer fertile sperm than in the past. Tom is experiencing
a. menopause b. sexual senility c. the climacteric d. sexual impotency