Behavioral System—Draft
Your introduction to the system. For inspiration, here are some suggestions that you can write about: What systems and other threads does it touch on? (This is also represented below with the resources that are included—materials that are already on the Learning site that touch your system.) Why is it part of our curriculum? […]
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
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 […]