A 23-year-old woman has been suffering from a mental disease since the age of 18, the course of disease has no remission periods. At a hospital the patient mostly presents with non-purposeful foolish excitation: she makes stereotypic grimaces, exposes herself, publicly masturbates with a loud laughter, repeates stereotypical abusive shouts. The patient should be prescribed:

Answer options

1. Antidepressants
2. Nootropics
3. Neuroleptics
4. Mood stabilizers
5. Tranquilizers

Explanation

The main manifestations of hebephrenic syndrome are indicated in this task. There is non-purposeful foolish excitation: the patient makes stereotypic grimaces, exposes herself, and publicly masturbates with loud laughter, repeats stereotypical abusive shouts. The disease has begun in adolescence and has a non-remission course. It indicates a hebephrenic form of schizophrenia. The main group of drugs that are used to suppress hebephrenic excitation and the treatment of schizophrenia is neuroleptics. Psychiatry: [Textbook] V.L. Gavenko, V.M. Sinayko, G.A. Samardakova and others; reduction by V.L. Gavenko, – Kharkov: Region-inform, 2006. – 398 – 402 P.