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 […]