Case study: Depressive disorders
Instructions Familiarize yourself by reading all the cases to prepare for your class session. During class, students will be asked to review a case and collaborate with each other at their table. The table group will team up and work through one of the cases below and process through several steps of reviewing and organizing […]
Case study: Somatic disorders
Instructions Familiarize yourself by reading all the cases to prepare for your class session. During class, students will be asked to review a case and collaborate with each other at their table. The table group will team up and work through one of the cases below and process through several steps of reviewing and organizing […]
Case study: Psychotic disorders
Instructions Familiarize yourself by reading all the cases to prepare for your class session. During class, students will be asked to review a case and collaborate with each other at their table. The table group will team up and work through one of the cases below and process through several steps of reviewing and organizing […]
Case study: Anxiety disorders
Instructions Familiarize yourself by reading all the cases to prepare for your class session. During class, students will be asked to review a case and collaborate with each other at their table. The table group will team up and work through one of the cases below and process through several steps of reviewing and organizing […]
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Psychiatry Resources
These resources will help you when you encounter patients with behavioral health needs, whether in a psychiatry setting or in a different clinical setting (e.g., family medicine, internal medicine, emergency medicine). Psychiatric history and physical Identifying information or demographic data At minimum name and date of birth, single/married/divorced, race, reference to any prior inpatient or […]
Behavioral System
Treatment plans Anxiety disorders Anxiety disorders. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR®). Depression Depression in the primary care setting. Park LT, Zarate CA Jr. N Engl J Med. 2019 Feb 7;380(6):559-568. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcp1712493. PMID: 30726688; PMCID: PMC6727965. Psychotic disorder Practice guideline for the treatment of patients with schizophrenia. The American […]
Clinical Differentiation of Major Dementias
Disease Alzheimer’s disease Frontotemporal dementia Lewy body dementia Vascular Early symptoms/Age of onset Onset typically 65+, risk increases with age Onset in midlife (average age 58; 40-70) Onset 60+, more rapid decline Onset 65+, increases with age and vascular disease risk factors Cognition/Mental status Early: Memory loss Later: Executive and visual spatial deficits, word finding […]