Psychiatry

Lecture Notes, Study Materials and Important questions answers

Subject : Psychiatry
Listening to the Patient
1. Listening: The Key Skill in Psychiatry - Answer (click here)
2. The Primary Tools: Words, Analogies, Metaphors, Similes and Symbols
- Answer (click here)
3. How Does One Hear Words in This Way? - Answer (click here)
4. Listening as More Than Hearing - Answer (click here)
5. Common Blocks to Effective Listening - Answer (click here)
6. Crucial Attitudes that Enable Effective Listening - Answer (click here)
7. Theoretical Perspectives on Listening - Answer (click here)
8. Using Oneself in Listening - Answer (click here)
9. To Be Found: The Psychological Product of Being Heard - Answer (click
here)
10. Listening to Oneself to Listen Better - Answer (click here)
11. Listening in Special Clinical Situations - Answer (click here)
12. Growing and Maturing as a Listener - Answer (click here)

The Cultural Context of Clinical Assessment

1. Introduction: The Cultural Matrix of Psychiatry - Answer (click here)
2. What Is Culture? - Answer (click here)
3. Culture and Gender - Answer (click here)
4. The Cultural Formulation - Answer (click here)
5. Ethnocultural Identity - Answer (click here)
6. Illness Explanations and Help-seeking - Answer (click here)
7. Psychosocial Environment and Levels of Functioning - Answer (click here)
8. Clinician–Patient Relationship - Answer (click here)
9. Overall Assessment - Answer (click here)
10. Cultural Competence - Answer (click here)
11. Working with Interpreters and Culture-brokers - Answer (click here)
12. Conclusion: The Limits of Culture - Answer (click here)
The Psychiatric Interview Settings and Techniques
1. The Psychiatric Interview: Settings and Techniques - Answer (click here)
2. Goals of the Psychiatric Interview - Answer (click here)
3. What Is the Diagnosis? - Answer (click here)
4. The Psychiatric Database - Answer (click here)
5. Database Components - Answer (click here)
6. Conduct of the Interview: Factors Which Affect the Interview - Answer
(click here)
7. General Features of Psychiatric Interviews - Answer (click here)
8. Phases of the Interview - Answer (click here)
9. Dimensions of Interviewing Techniques - Answer (click here)

PhysicianPatient Relationship
1. Physician–Patient Relationship - Answer (click here)
2. Formation of the Physician–Patient Relationship - Answer (click here)
3. Special Issues in the Physician–Patient Relationship - Answer (click here)
4. The Physician–Patient Relationship in Specific Populations of Patients -
Answer (click here)

Professional Ethics and Boundaries

1. Professional Ethics and Boundaries - Answer (click here)
2. Ethical Behavior and its Relationship to the Professional Attitude -
Answer (click here)
3. The Coherent Treatment Frame and the Role of Therapeutic Boundaries
in Effective Psychiatric Treatment - Answer (click here)
4. Boundary Violations - Answer (click here)
5. Components of the Coherent Psychiatric Frame - Answer (click here)
6. Stability - Answer (click here)
7. Avoiding Dual Relationships - Answer (click here)
8. Autonomy and Neutrality - Answer (click here)
9. Coherent and Noncollusive Compensation - Answer (click here)
10. Confidentiality - Answer (click here)
11. Anonymity - Answer (click here)
12. Abstinence - Answer (click here)
13. Self-respect and Self-protection - Answer (click here)

Law Ethics and Psychiatry

1. Overview of Legal Principles - Answer (click here)
 2. Rights and Responsibilities - Answer (click here)
3. Confidentiality and Privilege - Answer (click here)
4. Informed Consent - Answer (click here)
5. Exceptions to Informed Consent - Answer (click here)
6. Medicolegal Aspects of Clinical Practice - Answer (click here)
7. Third Party Payers and the Psychiatrist - Answer (click here)
8. Liability for Supervising Other Professionals - Answer (click here)
9. Criminal Law and Psychiatry - Answer (click here)
10. Civil Litigation - Answer (click here)
11. Competence, Capacity and Guardianship - Answer (click here)
12. Special Issues - Answer (click here)
13. Psychiatric Ethics - Answer (click here)
14. Sources of Psychiatric Ethics - Answer (click here)
15. Potential Consequences of Diagnostic Labels - Answer (click here)
16. Ethics of Psychiatric Research - Answer (click here)
17. Ethics and Suicide - Answer (click here)
18. Ethical Dimensions of Health System Changes - Answer (click here)

A Psychiatric Perspective on Human Development

1. A Psychiatric Perspective on Human Development - Answer (click here)
2. Theories and Models of Development - Answer (click here)
3. Biological Development - Answer (click here)
4. Cognitive Developmen - Answer (click here)
5. Emotional Development - Answer (click here)
6. Social Development - Answer (click here)
7. Moral Development - Answer (click here)
8. Developmental Psychopathology - Answer (click here)
9. High-Risk Periods for Psychopathology - Answer (click here)
10. Interlineal Decalage - Answer (click here)
11. The Psychiatrist as a Developmentalist - Answer (click here)

Psychopathology Across the Life Cycle

1. Psychopathology Across the Life-Cycle - Answer (click here)
2. Continuity, Persistence and Progression Across the Life-Cycle - Answer
(click here)
3. Stress-diathesis Model of Psychopathology - Answer (click here)
4. Pathoplastic Effects of Age - Answer (click here)
5. Problems of Childhood - Answer (click here)
6. Problems of Adolescence - Answer (click here)
 7. Problems of Early Adulthood - Answer (click here)
8. Problems of Middle Adult Life - Answer (click here)
9. Problems of Late Life - Answer (click here)

Psychiatric Epidemiology
1. Psychiatric Epidemiology - Answer (click here)
2. The Scope of Inquiry in Psychiatric Epidemiology - Answer (click here)
3. Measures of Disease Frequency - Answer (click here)
4. Measures of Association - Answer (click here)
5. Instruments to Identify Cases - Answer (click here)
6. Psychometric Properties of Instruments - Answer (click here)
7. Risk Factor Identification - Answer (click here)
8. Types of Epidemiological Studies - Answer (click here)
9. Threats to Validity in Epidemiological Studies - Answer (click here)
10. Examples of Psychiatric Epidemiologic Studies - Answer (click here)
11. The Epidemiological Catchment Area Study - Answer (click here)
12. The National Comorbidity Survey - Answer (click here)

Psychiatric Pathophysiology Schizophrenia

1. Pursuing the Pathophysiology of Schizophrenia - Answer (click here)
2. Clinical Pharmacology in Schizophrenia - Answer (click here)
3. Preclinical Studies Relevant to the Pathophysiology of Schizophrenia -
Answer (click here)
4. Systems Pathology in Schizophrenia: The Limbic Cortex - Answer (click
here)
5. Postmortem Limbic Cortex Abnormalities in Schizophrenia: Structural
Changes - Answer (click here)

Psychiatric Pathophysiology Mood Disorders

1. Genetic Factors - Answer (click here)
2. Molecular Genetic Research - Answer (click here)
3. Monoamine Alterations - Answer (click here)
4. Neuropeptides and Hormones - Answer (click here)
5. Neuroimaging Studies - Answer (click here)

Psychiatric Pathophysiology Anxiety Disorders

1. Psychiatric Pathophysiology: Anxiety Disorders - Answer (click here)
2. Gamma-aminobutyric Acid (GABA) - Answer (click here)
 3. Glutamate - Answer (click here)
4. NMDA Receptors - Answer (click here)
5. Linking NMDA Receptors to Biogenic Amine-based Anxiolytics -
Answer (click here)
6. Group II Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors - Answer (click here)
7. Serotonin - Answer (click here)
8. Norepinephrine - Answer (click here)

Psychiatric Pathophysiology Addiction

1. Psychiatric Pathophysiology: Addiction - Answer (click here)
2. The Development of Addiction - Answer (click here)
3. Brain Circuitry and Addiction - Answer (click here)

Psychiatric Pathophysiology Dementia

1. Psychiatric Pathophysiology: Dementia - Answer (click here)

Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology

1. What Is Cognitive Neuroscience? - Answer (click here)
2. Current Theoretical Conceptualization of Brain Organization - Answer
(click here)
3. Psychiatry: Memory - Answer (click here)
4. Cellular Basis of Memory - Answer (click here)
5. Major Subdivisions of Memory Systems - Answer (click here)
6. Frontal Lobe Contribution to Explicit Memory - Answer (click here)
7. Implicit Memory - Answer (click here)
8. Executive Functioning and the Frontal Lobes - Answer (click here)
9. Working Memory - Answer (click here)
10. Theories of Frontal Lobe Functioning - Answer (click here)
11. Behavioral–Neuroanatomical Correlates - Answer (click here)
12. Psychiatry: Attention - Answer (click here)
13. Psychiatry: Language - Answer (click here)
14. Important Issues in Language Research - Answer (click here)
15. Acquired Language Disorders: The Example of Aphasia - Answer (click
here)
16. Concepts of Neuroanatomical Dominance and Localization in Language
- Answer (click here)
17. Psychiatry: Model of Language - Answer (click here)
18. Neurodevelopmental Aspects of Language - Answer (click here)
19. Brain Organization and Language Development - Answer (click here)
Cognitive Psychology Basic Theory and Clinical Implications
1. Cognitive Psychology: Basic Theory and Clinical Implications - Answer
(click here)
2. Cognitive Psychology: Attention - Answer (click here)
3. Cognitive Psychology: Anxiety Disorders - Answer (click here)
4. Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) - Answer (click here)
5. Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder - Answer (click here)
6. Borderline Personality Disorder - Answer (click here)
7. Cognitive Psychology: Memory - Answer (click here)
8. Clinical Depression, Memory and Schemata Bias - Answer (click here)
9. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Repression and Memory Impairment -
Answer (click here)
10. Higher Order Cognitive Processing - Answer (click here)
11. Automatic Versus Conscious Processing - Answer (click here)

Social Psychology
1. Social Psychology: The Self - Answer (click here)
2. Social Psychology: Social Cognition - Answer (click here)
3. Social Psychology: Interpersonal Processes: Attachment - Answer (click
here)
4. Social Psychology: Interpersonal Processes: Treatment Relationship -
Answer (click here)
5. Social Psychology: Interpersonal Processes: The Egoism-Altruism
Debate - Answer (click here)
6. Social Psychology: Interpersonal Processes: Aggressive Behavior -
Answer (click here)
7. Social Psychology: Behavior in Groups - Answer (click here)
8. Social Psychology: Culture and Social Psychology - Answer (click here)

Psychoanalytic Theories
1. Psychoanalytic Theories: Development and Major Concepts - Answer
(click here)
2. Psychoanalytic Theories: Melanie Klein - Answer (click here)
3. Psychoanalytic Theories: Donald W. Winnicott - Answer (click here)
4. Psychoanalytic Theories: John Bowlby - Answer (click here)
5. Psychoanalytic Theories: Margaret Mahler - Answer (click here)
6. Psychoanalytic Theories: Otto Kernberg - Answer (click here)
7. Psychoanalytic Theories: Erik H. Erikson - Answer (click here)
8. Psychoanalytic Theories: Heinz Kohut: Self-psychology - Answer (click
 here)

Clinical Evaluation and Treatment Planning A Multimodal

Approach
1. Clinical Evaluation and Treatment Planning: A Multimodal Approach -
Answer (click here)
2. Psychiatric Interview - Answer (click here)
3. Physical Examination - Answer (click here)
4. Neurological Examination - Answer (click here)
5. Psychological and Neuropsychological Testing - Answer (click here)
6. Neuropsychological Examination Compared with Other Examinations -
Answer (click here)
7. Types of Referral Questions for Neuropsychological Evaluation - Answer
(click here)
8. Characterization of Adaptive Strengths and Weaknesses and Treatment
Planning - Answer (click here)
9. Assessment of Change of State - Answer (click here)
10. Limitations of Reliability and Validity - Answer (click here)
11. Laboratory Assessments - Answer (click here)
12. Neurophysiologic Assessment - Answer (click here)
13. Brain Imaging - Answer (click here)
14. Structural Imaging Modalities - Answer (click here)
15. Functional Imaging Modalities - Answer (click here)
16. Special Assessment Techniques - Answer (click here)
17. Treatment Planning - Clinical Evaluation and Treatment Planning: A
Multimodal Approach - Answer (click here)
18. Differential Diagnosis - Clinical Evaluation and Treatment Planning: A
Multimodal Approach - Answer (click here)

Behavior and Adaptive Functioning

1. Personality Style - Answer (click here)
2. Domains of Functioning - Answer (click here)
3. Social and Interpersonal Functioning - Answer (click here)
4. Occupational Functioning - Answer (click here)
5. Leisure - Answer (click here)
6. Assessing Behavior and Adaptive Functioning in the Clinical Interview -
Answer (click here)

Cultural Aspects of Psychiatric Disorders

 1. Cultural Aspects of Psychiatric Disorders - Answer (click here)
2. Specific Cultural Considerations - Cultural Aspects of Psychiatric
Disorders - Answer (click here)
3. Substance Use Disorders - Cultural Aspects of Psychiatric Disorders -
Answer (click here)
4. Schizophrenia and Related Psychotic Disorders - Answer (click here)
5. Mood Disorders - Cultural Aspects of Psychiatric Disorders - Answer
(click here)
6. Anxiety Disorders - Cultural Aspects of Psychiatric Disorders - Answer
(click here)
7. Somatoform Disorders - Cultural Aspects of Psychiatric Disorders -
Answer (click here)
8. Dissociative Disorders - Cultural Aspects of Psychiatric Disorders -
Answer (click here)
9. Sexual Disorders - Cultural Aspects of Psychiatric Disorders - Answer
(click here)
10. Eating Disorders - Cultural Aspects of Psychiatric Disorders - Answer
(click here)
11. Adjustment and Personality Disorders - Cultural Aspects of Psychiatric
Disorders - Answer (click here)
12. The Case of Culture-bound Syndromes and Idioms of Distress - Answer
(click here)

Psychiatric Classification
1. Goals of a Psychiatric Classification - Answer (click here)
2. Approaches to Psychiatric Classification - Answer (click here)
3. DSM-IV Multiaxial System - Answer (click here)
4. DSM-IV-TR Classification and Diagnostic Codes - Answer (click here)

Diagnostic Classification in Infancy and Early Childhood

1. Diagnostic Classification in Infancy and Early Childhood - Answer (click
here)
2. Principles of Assessment - Diagnostic Classification in Infancy and
Early Childhood - Answer (click here)
3. The DIR Model - Diagnostic Classification in Infancy and Early
Childhood - Answer (click here)
4. Overview of the Classification System - Infancy and Early Childhood -
Answer (click here)

Childhood Disorders Mental Retardation

 1. Concept of Childhood Mental Retardation - Answer (click here)
2. Etiology and Pathophysiology of Childhood Mental Retardation - Answer
(click here)
3. Approaches to Classification of the Causation of Mental Retardation -
Answer (click here)
4. Assessment of Mental Retardation - Answer (click here)
5. Overall Goals of Treatment of Mental Retardation - Answer (click here)
6. Mental Retardation: Variations in Presentation, Behavior Disorders,
Assessment - Answer (click here)
7. Mental Retardation: Evaluation of Clinical Data, Aggression - Answer
(click here)
8. Overall Goals of Psychiatric Treatment of Persons with Mental
Retardation - Answer (click here)
9. Principles of the Use of Psychotropic Drugs in Persons with Mental
Retardation - Answer (click here)
10. Mental Retardation: Psychosocial Interventions - Answer (click here)
11. Mental Retardation: Psychotherapies, Behavioral Treatment - Answer
(click here)
12. Psychiatrist–Patient Relationship: Models of Delivery of Psychiatric
Services - Answer (click here)

Childhood Disorders Learning and Motor Skills Disorders

1. Childhood Disorders: Learning and Motor Skills Disorders - Answer (click
here)
2. Diagnosis of a Learning Disorder or Motor Skills Disorder - Answer (click
here)
3. Evaluation of the Child or Adolescent - Answer (click here)
4. Environmental and Cultural Assessment - Learning and Motor Skills
Disorders - Answer (click here)
5. Treatment, Educational, Psychotherapeutic Interventions - Learning and
Motor Skills Disorders - Answer (click here)

Childhood Disorders Communication Disorders

1. Childhood Disorders: Communication Disorders - Answer (click here)
2. Diagnosis - Childhood Disorders: Communication Disorders - Answer
(click here)
3. Course and Natural History - Childhood Disorders: Communication
Disorders - Answer (click here)
4. Treatment - Childhood Disorders: Communication Disorders - Answer
(click here)
 5. Academic Comorbidity and Outcome - Childhood Disorders:
Communication Disorders - Answer (click here)
6. Comparison of DSM-IV/ICD-10 Diagnostic Criteria - Childhood
Disorders: Communication Disorders - Answer (click here)

Childhood Disorders The Autism Spectrum Disorders

1. Childhood Disorders: The Autism Spectrum Disorders - Answer (click here)
2. Phenomenology - Childhood Disorders: The Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Answer (click here)
3. Etiology and Pathophysiology - Childhood Disorders: The Autism
Spectrum Disorders - Answer (click here)
4. Biochemical Findings in ASD - Childhood Disorders: The Autism
Spectrum Disorders - Answer (click here)
5. Neuropathological Findings in ASD - Childhood Disorders: The Autism
Spectrum Disorders - Answer (click here)
6. Functional Neuroimaging Findings in ASD(Autism Spectrum Disorders)
- Answer (click here)
7. Genetics and ASD(Autism Spectrum Disorders) - Answer (click here)
8. Autistic Disorder and MMR Vaccinations - Answer (click here)
9. Autism Spectrum Disorders: Assessment and Differential Diagnosis -
Answer (click here)
10. Autism Spectrum Disorders: Differential Diagnosis - Answer (click here)
11. Autism Spectrum Disorders: Epidemiology and Comorbidity - Answer
(click here)
12. Autism Spectrum Disorders: Course - Answer (click here)
13. Autism Spectrum Disorders: Treatment - Answer (click here)
14. Autism Spectrum Disorders: Comparison of DSM-IV/ICD-10
Diagnostic Criteria - Answer (click here)

Childhood Disorders Attention deficit and Disruptive Behavior

Disorders
1. Childhood Disorders: Attention-deficit and Disruptive Behavior
Disorders - Answer (click here)
2. Epidemiology and Etiology - Attention-deficit and Disruptive Behavior
Disorders - Answer (click here)
3. Neurobiology - Attention-deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders -
Answer (click here)
4. Genetics - Attention-deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders - Answer
(click here)
5. Environmental Factors - Attention-deficit and Disruptive Behavior
 Disorders - Answer (click here)
6. Course and Natural History- Attention-deficit and Disruptive Behavior
Disorders - Answer (click here)
7. Assessment and Rating Scales- Attention-deficit and Disruptive
Behavior Disorders - Answer (click here)
8. Interviews, Psychological/Psychometric Evaluation- Attention-deficit
and Disruptive Behavior Disorders - Answer (click here)
9. Observational and Laboratory Measures - Attention-deficit and
Disruptive Behavior Disorders - Answer (click here)
10. Differential Diagnoses - Attention-deficit and Disruptive Behavior
Disorders - Answer (click here)
11. Treatment - Attention-deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders - Answer
(click here)
12. Psychopharmacology - Attention-deficit and Disruptive Behavior
Disorders - Answer (click here)
13. Psychosocial Interventions - Attention-deficit and Disruptive Behavior
Disorders - Answer (click here)
14. The MTA Study - Attention-deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders -
Answer (click here)
15. Impact of Comorbidity on Treatment - Attention-deficit and Disruptive
Behavior Disorders - Answer (click here)

Childhood Disorders Feeding and Other Disorders of Infancy or

Early Childhood
1. Childhood Disorders: Feeding and Other Disorders of Infancy or Early
Childhood - Answer (click here)
2. Feeding Disorder of State Regulation - Answer (click here)
3. Feeding Disorder of Poor Care Giver–Infant Reciprocity - Answer (click
here)
4. Infantile Anorexia - Answer (click here)
5. Sensory Food Aversions - Answer (click here)
6. Post Traumatic Feeding Disorder - Answer (click here)
7. Rumination Disorder - Answer (click here)
8. Pica - Answer (click here)

Childhood Disorders Tic Disorders

1. Tic Disorders: Phenomenology and Diagnostic Criteria - Answer (click
here)
2. Diagnostic Criteria for the Tic Disorders - Answer (click here)
3. Tic Disorders: Epidemiology - Answer (click here)
 4. Tic Disorders: Frequently Cooccurring Symptoms or Disorders - Answer
(click here)
5. Relationship of the Commonly Cooccurring Symptoms and Conditions
with Tourette’s Disorder - Answer (click here)
6. Tic Disorders: Etiology - Answer (click here)
7. Tic Disorders: Diagnosis - Answer (click here)
8. Tic Disorders: Differential Diagnosis - Answer (click here)
9. Tic Disorders: Course and Natural History - Answer (click here)
10. Tic Disorders: Standard Approaches to Treatment - Answer (click here)
11. Treatment of Cooccurring Psychiatric Disorders in Tourette’s Disorder -
Answer (click here)

Childhood Disorders Elimination Disorders and Childhood

Anxiety Disorders
1. Enuresis - Answer (click here)
2. Encopresis - Answer (click here)
3. Separation Anxiety Disorder - Answer (click here)
4. Selective Mutism - Answer (click here)

Delirium and Dementia

1. Delirium and Dementia - Answer (click here)
2. Dementia, Delirium and Other Cognitive Disorders - Answer (click here)
3. Dementia of the Alzheimer Type - Answer (click here)
4. Dementia Due to Pick’s Disease - Answer (click here)
5. Dementia Due to Parkinson’s Disease - Answer (click here)
6. Dementia Due to Huntington’s Disease - Answer (click here)
7. Vascular Dementia - Answer (click here)
8. Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis - Answer (click here)
9. Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease - Answer (click here)
10. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - Answer (click here)
11. Dementia Due to HIV Diseases - Answer (click here)
12. Neurosyphilis - Answer (click here)
13. Dementia Due to Head Trauma - Answer (click here)
14. Substance-induced Persisting Dementia - Answer (click here)
15. Alcohol-induced Dementia - Answer (click here)
16. Dementia Due to Other General Medical Conditions - Answer (click here)
17. Delirium - Answer (click here)
18. Amnestic Disorders - Answer (click here)
Mental Disorders Due to a General Medical Condition
1. Mental Disorders Due to a General Medical Condition - Answer (click here)
2. Psychotic Disorder Due to a General Medical Condition - Answer (click
here)
3. Assessment and Differential Diagnosis - Mental Disorders Due to a
General Medical Condition - Answer (click here)
4. Epidemiology, Comorbidity, Course, Treatment - Mental Disorders Due
to a General Medical Condition - Answer (click here)
5. Mood disorder with Depressive Features - Answer (click here)
6. Mood Disorder with Manic Features - Answer (click here)
7. Anxiety Disorder Due to a General Medical Condition with Panic
Attacks or with Generalized Anxiety - Answer (click here)
8. Mood Disorder with Obsessive–Compulsive Symptoms - Answer (click
here)
9. Catatonic Disorder Due to a General Medical Condition - Answer (click
here)
10. Personality Change Due to a General Medical Condition - Answer (click
here)
11. Pseudobulbar Palsy - Answer (click here)
12. Klüver–Bucy Syndrome - Answer (click here)

General Approaches to Substance and Polydrug Use Disorders

1. General Approaches to Substance and Polydrug Use Disorders - Answer
(click here)
2. Etiology and Pathophysiology - General Approaches to Substance and
Polydrug Use Disorders - Answer (click here)
3. Special Issues in the Psychiatric Examination - General Approaches to
Substance and Polydrug Use Disorders - Answer (click here)
4. Course and Natural History - General Approaches to Substance and
Polydrug Use Disorders - Answer (click here)
5. Other Substance Use Disorders: Anabolic Steroids - Answer (click here)

Substance Abuse Alcohol Use Disorders

1. Substance Abuse: Alcohol Use Disorders - Answer (click here)
2. Etiology and Pathophysiology - Alcohol Use Disorders - Answer (click
here)
3. Pathophysiology - Alcohol Use Disorders - Answer (click here)
4. Assessment and Differential Diagnosis - Alcohol Use Disorders - Answer
(click here)
 5. Alcohol Intoxication - Answer (click here)
6. Alcohol Withdrawal - Answer (click here)
7. Alcohol-induced Disorder - Answer (click here)
8. Assessment of Alcohol Use Disorders - Answer (click here)
9. Screening - Alcohol Use Disorders - Answer (click here)
10. Psychiatric History and Examination - Alcohol Use Disorders - Answer
(click here)
11. Relevant Physical Examination and Laboratory Findings - Alcohol Use
Disorders - Answer (click here)
12. Gender and Developmental Presentations - Alcohol Use Disorders -
Answer (click here)
13. Epidemiology and Comorbidity - Alcohol Use Disorders - Answer (click
here)
14. Psychiatric Comorbidity in Individuals with an Alcohol Use Disorder -
Answer (click here)
15. Course and Natural History - Alcohol Use Disorders - Answer (click here)
16. Treatment - Alcohol Use Disorders - Answer (click here)
17. The Management of Alcohol Withdrawal - Answer (click here)
18. Therapeutic Modalities: Nonpharmacological - Alcohol Use Disorders -
Answer (click here)
19. Therapeutic Modalities: Pharmacological - Alcohol Use Disorders -
Answer (click here)
20. The Treatment of Psychiatric Comorbidity in Alcoholics - Answer (click
here)
21. Treatment of Depressive Symptoms/Disorders - Answer (click here)
22. Treatment of Anxiety Symptoms/Disorders - Answer (click here)
23. Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Mutual Help Organizations - Answer
(click here)
24. Special Features Influencing Treatment - Alcohol Use Disorders - Answer
(click here)

Substance Abuse Caffeine Use Disorders

1. Caffeine Intoxication - Answer (click here)
2. Treatment - Caffeine Use Disorders - Answer (click here)
3. Caffeine Withdrawal - Answer (click here)
4. Caffeine Dependence - Answer (click here)
5. Caffeine-induced Anxiety Disorder - Answer (click here)
6. Caffeine-induced Sleep Disorder - Answer (click here)

Substance Abuse Cannabis related Disorders

1. Substance Abuse: Cannabis-related Disorders - Answer (click here)
 2. Cannabis: Botany and Pharmacology - Answer (click here)
3. Etiology and Pathophysiology - Cannabis-related Disorders - Answer
(click here)
4. Assessment and Differential Diagnosis - Cannabis-related Disorders -
Answer (click here)
5. Epidemiology and Comorbidity - Cannabis-related Disorders - Answer
(click here)
6. Course - Cannabis-related Disorders - Answer (click here)
7. Treatment - Cannabis-related Disorders - Answer (click here)
8. Special Features Influencing Treatment - Cannabis-related Disorders -
Answer (click here)

Substance Abuse Cocaine Use Disorders

1. Substance Abuse: Cocaine Use Disorders - Answer (click here)
2. Gender Differences in Cocaine Use Disorders - Answer (click here)
3. Course and Natural History - Cocaine Use Disorders - Answer (click here)
4. Neurobiological Changes Related to Cocaine Use - Answer (click here)
5. Diagnosis of Cocaine Use Disorders - Answer (click here)
6. Cocaine Dependence - Answer (click here)
7. Cocaine Abuse and Cocaine Intoxication - Answer (click here)
8. Cocaine Withdrawal - Answer (click here)
9. Medical Complications of Cocaine Abuse - Answer (click here)
10. Assessment and Treatment Overview - Cocaine Use Disorders - Answer
(click here)
11. Cocaine Use Disorders: Clinical Course - Answer (click here)
12. Treatment of Cocaine Use Disorders - Answer (click here)
13. Psychotherapies for Cocaine Use Disorders - Answer (click here)
14. Physician–Patient Relationship Considerations - Answer (click here)
15. Pharmacotherapies for Cocaine Use Disorders - Answer (click here)

Substance Abuse Phencycline Use Disorders

1. Substance Abuse: Phencycline Use Disorders - Answer (click here)

Substance Abuse Hallucinogen and MDMA Related Disorders

1. Substance Abuse: Hallucinogen- and MDMA-Related Disorders - Answer
(click here)
2. Differential Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute Intoxication -
Hallucinogen- and MDMA-Related Disorders - Answer (click here)
3. LSD-Related Psychotic Disorders - Answer (click here)
 4. Differential Diagnosis and Treatment - Hallucinogen- and MDMA-
Related Disorders - Answer (click here)
5. Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder (HPPD) - Answer (click here)
6. MDMA (“Ecstasy”) - Answer (click here)

Substance Abuse Inhalant related Disorders

1. Substance Abuse: Inhalant-related Disorders - Answer (click here)

Substance Abuse Nicotine Dependence

1. Substance Abuse: Nicotine Dependence - Answer (click here)
2. Cooccurring Psychiatric or Substance Use Disorders - Nicotine
Dependence - Answer (click here)
3. Etiology and Pathophysiology - Nicotine Dependence - Answer (click here)
4. Course and Natural History - Nicotine Dependence - Answer (click here)
5. Evaluation and Assessment - Nicotine Dependence - Answer (click here)
6. Overall Approach to Treatment - Nicotine Dependence - Answer (click
here)
7. Phases of Treatment - Nicotine Dependence - Answer (click here)
8. Self-help - Nicotine Dependence - Answer (click here)
9. Specific Medication and Psychosocial Treatment Interventions -
Nicotine Dependence - Answer (click here)
10. Psychosocial and Psychopharmacological Therapies - Nicotine
Dependence - Answer (click here)

Substance Abuse Opioid Use Disorders

1. Substance Abuse: Opioid Use Disorders - Answer (click here)
2. Epidemiology of Opioid Abuse and Dependence - Answer (click here)
3. Etiology and Pathophysiology of Opioid-related Disorders - Answer (click
here)
4. Clinical Picture of Opioid-related Disorders - Answer (click here)
5. Intoxication, Withdrawal, Dependence, Abuse - Opioid Use Disorders -
Answer (click here)
6. Assessment and Clinical Picture - Opioid Use Disorders - Answer (click
here)
7. Course and Natural History of Opioid Dependence - Answer (click here)
8. Treatment - Opioid Use Disorders - Answer (click here)
9. Detoxification: Long-term, Short-term, Rapid and Ultra-rapid - Opioid
Use Disorders - Answer (click here)
10. Opioid Agonist Pharmacotherapy - Answer (click here)
 11. Antagonist Maintenance - Opioid Use Disorders - Answer (click here)
12. Psychosocial/Behavioral Treatments - Opioid Use Disorders - Answer
(click here)
13. Individual Drug Counseling - Opioid Use Disorders - Answer (click here)
14. Therapeutic Communities (TCs), Addressing Comorbidity - Opioid Use
Disorders - Answer (click here)
15. Psychiatric - Opioid Use Disorders - Answer (click here)
16. Medical - Opioid Use Disorders - Answer (click here)
17. Integrated Treatment and Harm Reduction - Opioid Use Disorders -
Answer (click here)

Substance Abuse Sedative Hypnotic or Anxiolytic Use Disorders

1. Sedative, Hypnotic, or Anxiolytic Use Disorders - Answer (click here)
2. Substance-related Disorders of Sedative–Hypnotics - Answer (click here)
3. Etiology and Pathophysiology, Epidemiology - Sedative, Hypnotic, or
Anxiolytic Use Disorders - Answer (click here)
4. Patterns of Abuse - Disorders of Sedative–Hypnotics - Answer (click here)
5. Acute Intoxication with Sedative–Hypnotics - Answer (click here)
6. Phenomenology and Variations in Presentations - Disorders of Sedative–
Hypnotics - Answer (click here)
7. Assessment - Disorders of Sedative–Hypnotics - Answer (click here)
8. Course and Natural History - Disorders of Sedative–Hypnotics - Answer
(click here)
9. Psychotherapy - Disorders of Sedative–Hypnotics - Answer (click here)
10. Twelve-step Recovery - Disorders of Sedative–Hypnotics - Answer (click
here)
11. Additional Treatment Considerations - Disorders of Sedative–Hypnotics
- Answer (click here)
12. Risk Factors for Low-dose Benzodiazepine Withdrawal - Answer (click
here)

Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses

1. Diagnosis - Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses - Answer (click here)
2. DSM-IV Subtypes of Schizophrenia - Answer (click here)
3. Schizophrenia: Epidemiological Findings: Incidence and Prevalence -
Answer (click here)
4. Sociodemographical Characteristics - Answer (click here)
5. Schizophrenia: Morbidity and Mortality - Answer (click here)
6. Schizophrenia: Comorbidity with Other Illnesses, Genetics, Etiology -
Answer (click here)
 7. Schizophrenia: Family Prevalence Studies, Twin, Adoption - Answer (click
here)
8. Schizophrenia: Viral Hypotheses, Immune Dysfunction,
Pathophysiology - Answer (click here)
9. Schizophrenia: Neuroanatomical Theories - Answer (click here)
10. Schizophrenia: Neurochemical Theories - Answer (click here)
11. Schizophrenia: Clinical Manifestations and Phenomenology - Answer
(click here)
12. Schizophrenia: Symptom Cluster Analysis, Cognitive Impairment -
Answer (click here)
13. Schizophrenia: Information Processing and Attention, Learning and
Memory, Differential Diagnosis - Answer (click here)
14. Schizophrenia: Mental Status Examination - Answer (click here)
15. Schizophrenia: Other Conditions that Resemble Schizophrenia - Answer
(click here)
16. Schizophrenia: Course of Illness - Answer (click here)
17. Schizophrenia: First Episode Schizophrenia - Answer (click here)
18. Schizophrenia: Treatment and Psychiatrist–Patient Relationship - Answer
(click here)
19. Schizophrenia: Psychopharmacological Treatment - Answer (click here)
20. Depression and Schizophrenia - Answer (click here)
21. Schizophrenia: Side Effects of Novel Antipsychotic Agents - Answer
(click here)
22. Schizophrenia: Treatment Resistance and Negative Symptoms - Answer
(click here)
23. Schizophrenia: Augmentation of Typical Neuroleptics - Answer (click here)
24. Schizophrenia: Mechanism of Action of the Atypical Antipsychotic
Agents - Answer (click here)
25. Nonpharmacological Treatment of Schizophrenia - Answer (click here)
26. Psychoses Disorder - Answer (click here)
27. Differential Diagnosis - Psychoses Disorder - Answer (click here)

Mood Disorders Depression

1. Mood Disorders: Depression - Answer (click here)
2. Epidemiology - Depression - Answer (click here)
3. Comorbidity Depression Patterns: General Medical Conditions - Answer
(click here)
4. Comorbidity Patterns: Other Clinical Psychiatric Disorders - Answer (click
here)
5. Depression: Disorder - Answer (click here)
6. Depression: Etiology and Pathophysiology, Integration of Genetic and
 Environmental Theories - Answer (click here)
7. Depression: Neurobiological Theories - Answer (click here)
8. Depression: Neurohormonal Theories - Answer (click here)
9. Depression: Psychosocial Theories - Answer (click here)
10. Depression: Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis - Answer (click here)
11. Subtyping of MDD - Answer (click here)
12. Depression in Children and Adolescents - Answer (click here)
13. Major Depressive Disorder in the Older Adult and in Ethnic Groups -
Answer (click here)
14. Depression: Assessment - Answer (click here)
15. Depression: Course and Natural History - Answer (click here)
16. Definitions of Remission, Relapse, Recovery and Recurrence - Answer
(click here)
17. Depression: Goals of Treatment - Answer (click here)
18. Depression: Pharmacotherapy and Other Somatic Treatment - Answer
(click here)
19. Depression: Psychosocial Treatment - Answer (click here)
20. Depression: Factors Influencing Treatment Response - Answer (click here)
21. Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders with Major Depressive Disorder -
Answer (click here)
22. General Medical Conditions Cooccurring with Major Depressive
Disorder - Answer (click here)
23. Depression: Demographic and Sociocultural Factors in Treatment -
Answer (click here)
24. Refractory Major Depressive Disorder - Answer (click here)
25. Dysthymic Disorder - Answer (click here)
26. Depressive Disorder not Otherwise Specified - Answer (click here)

Mood Disorders Bipolar ManicDepressive Disorders

1. Episodes as the Basis for Diagnosis of Manic–Depressive Disorder -
Answer (click here)
2. Bipolar (Manic–Depressive) Disorders: Genetic and Neurotransmitter
Hypotheses - Answer (click here)
3. Bipolar (Manic–Depressive) Disorders: Cell Degeneration and
Neuroprotective Effects of Medications - Answer (click here)
4. Bipolar (Manic–Depressive) Disorders: Biological Rhythms - Answer
(click here)
5. Stress and Manic–Depressive Disorder - Answer (click here)
6. Bipolar (Manic–Depressive) Disorders: Assessment and Differential
Diagnosis - Answer (click here)
7. A “Bipolar” Disorder? - Answer (click here)
 8. Bipolar (Manic–Depressive) Disorders: History, Physical Examination
and Laboratory Studies - Answer (click here)
9. Bipolar (Manic–Depressive) Disorders: Age, Gender, and Cultural
Issues in Diagnosis and Assessment - Answer (click here)
10. Bipolar (Manic–Depressive) Disorders: Epidemiology - Answer (click here)
11. Bipolar (Manic–Depressive) Disorders: Clinical Outcome, Functional
Outcome and Illness Costs - Answer (click here)
12. Bipolar (Manic–Depressive) Disorders: Treatment - Answer (click here)
13. Bipolar (Manic–Depressive) Disorders: Somatotherapy - Answer (click
here)
14. Bipolar (Manic–Depressive) Disorders: Special Features Influencing
Treatment - Answer (click here)

Mood Disorders Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder

1. Mood Disorders: Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder - Answer (click here)
2. Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder: Differential Diagnosis - Answer (click
here)
3. Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder: Epidemiology, Etiology - Answer (click
here)
4. Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder: Treatment - Answer (click here)

Anxiety Disorders Panic Disorder With and Without Agoraphobia

1. Anxiety Disorders: Panic Disorder With and Without Agoraphobia -
Answer (click here)
2. Panic Disorder: Historical Overview - Answer (click here)
3. Panic Disorder: Prevalence and Course - Answer (click here)
4. Panic Disorder: Costs of Panic Disorder - Answer (click here)
5. Panic Disorder: Comorbidity - Answer (click here)
6. Panic Disorder: Etiology - Answer (click here)
7. Panic Disorder: Neuroanatomical Hypothesis - Answer (click here)
8. Panic Disorder: Assessment, Treatment - Answer (click here)
9. Panic Disorder: Pharmacotherapies - Answer (click here)
10. Panic Disorder: Cognitive–Behavioral Therapy - Answer (click here)
11. Panic Disorder: Combining CBT with Pharmacotherapies - Answer (click
here)

Anxiety Disorders Social and Specific Phobias

1. Anxiety Disorders: Social and Specific Phobias - Answer (click here)
2. Social and Specific Phobias: Other Biological Factors - Answer (click here)
 3. Social and Specific Phobias: Assessment - Answer (click here)
4. Social and Specific Phobias: Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis -
Answer (click here)
5. Social and Specific Phobias: Specific Phobia Phenomenology and
Subtypes - Answer (click here)
6. Social Phobia Phenomenology and Subtypes - Answer (click here)
7. Social and Specific Phobias: Epidemiology and Comorbidity - Answer
(click here)
8. Social and Specific Phobias: Course and Natural History - Answer (click
here)
9. Social and Specific Phobias: Treatment - Answer (click here)
10. Social and Specific Phobias: Pharmacotherapy - Answer (click here)
11. Social and Specific Phobias: Psychosocial Treatments - Answer (click here)
12. Refractory Patients and Nonresponse to Initial Treatment - Answer (click
here)

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

1. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - Answer (click here)
2. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Epidemiology, Demographic
Characteristics - Answer (click here)
3. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Course and Natural History - Answer
(click here)
4. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Contamination - Answer (click here)
5. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Obsessions - Answer (click here)
6. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Pathological Doubt, Insight,
Comorbidity - Answer (click here)
7. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Differential Diagnosis - Answer (click
here)
8. Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder Versus Other Disorders - Answer (click
here)
9. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Etiology, Pathophysiology, Factors -
Answer (click here)
10. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Psychoanalytic Theory - Answer (click
here)
11. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Treatment, Pharmacological
Treatments, Assessing Treatment Resistance - Answer (click here)
12. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Augmentation Strategies - Answer (click
here)
13. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Issues in the Physician–Patient
Relationship - Answer (click here)
14. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Duration and Discontinuation of
 Treatment - Answer (click here)

Anxiety Disorders Traumatic Stress Disorders

1. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Epidemiology, Etiology and
Pathophysiology - Answer (click here)
2. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Psychological Factors, Diagnosis -
Answer (click here)
3. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Assessment, Course and Natural History
- Answer (click here)
4. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Pharmacotherapy - Answer (click here)
5. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Cognitive, Cognitive–Behavioral and
Behavioral Therapies - Answer (click here)
6. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Psychodynamic Therapy - Answer (click
here)
7. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Special Features Influencing Treatment
- Answer (click here)
8. Acute Stress Disorder - Answer (click here)

Anxiety Disorders Generalized Anxiety Disorder

1. Anxiety Disorders: Generalized Anxiety Disorder - Answer (click here)
2. Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Etiology and Pathophysiology - Answer
(click here)
3. Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Psychological Mechanisms - Answer (click
here)
4. Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Assessment and Differential Diagnosis -
Answer (click here)
5. Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Differential Diagnosis - Answer (click here)
6. Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Epidemiology and Comorbidity - Answer
(click here)
7. Generalized Anxiety Disorder:Comorbidity with Other Disorders -
Answer (click here)
8. Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Course, Treatment, Doctor-Patient
Relationship - Answer (click here)
9. Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Pharmacotherapy - Answer (click here)
10. Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Nonpharmacological Treatments - Answer
(click here)
11. Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Long-term Management of Generalized
Anxiety Disorder - Answer (click here)
12. Comorbidity and the Treatment of GAD(Generalized Anxiety Disorder)
- Answer (click here)
 13. Treatment of GAD(Generalized Anxiety Disorder) in the Elderly -
Answer (click here)
14. Treatment of GAD(Generalized Anxiety Disorder) in Adolescents and
Children - Answer (click here)

Somatoform Disorders
1. Somatoform Disorders - Answer (click here)
2. Somatoform Disorders: Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis - Answer
(click here)
3. Somatoform Disorders: Epidemiology, Treatment - Answer (click here)
4. Somatization Disorder - Answer (click here)
5. Somatization disorder: Course, Natural History and Prognosis - Answer
(click here)
6. Undifferentiated Somatoform Disorder - Answer (click here)
7. Conversion Disorder - Answer (click here)
8. Pain Disorder - Answer (click here)
9. Hypochondriasis - Answer (click here)
10. Body Dysmorphic Disorder - Answer (click here)
11. Somatoform Disorder not Otherwise Specified - Answer (click here)

Factitious Disorders
1. Factitious Disorders - Answer (click here)
2. Factitious Disorders: Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis,
Epidemiology, Etiology - Answer (click here)
3. Factitious Disorders: Treatment and Prognosis - Answer (click here)
4. Factitious Disorders: Ethical Considerations, Factitious Disorder by
Proxy, Treatment - Answer (click here)

Dissociative Disorders
1. Dissociative Disorders - Answer (click here)
2. Dissociative Disorders: Epidemiology - Answer (click here)
3. Dissociative Disorders: Diagnostic Criteria and Treatment Dissociative
Amnesia - Answer (click here)
4. Dissociative Disorders: Implicit Effects of Dissociated Memories -
Answer (click here)
5. Depersonalization Disorder - Answer (click here)
6. Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder) - Answer
(click here)
7. Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality
 Disorder) - Answer (click here)
8. Dissociative Trance Disorder - Answer (click here)
9. Acute Stress Disorder - Answer (click here)
10. Theoretical and Research Issues: Models and Mechanisms of
Dissociation - Answer (click here)

Sexual Disorders
1. Sexual Disorders - Answer (click here)
2. Sexual Disorders: The Sexual Dysfunctions - Answer (click here)
3. Sexual Disorders: Problems with Orgasm - Answer (click here)
4. Sexual Disorders: Dyspareunia - Answer (click here)
5. Sexual Disorders: Gender Identity Disorders - Answer (click here)
6. Sexual Disorders: The Paraphilias - Answer (click here)
7. Sexual Disorders: The Specific Paraphilias - Answer (click here)
8. Sexual Disorder Not Otherwise Specified - Answer (click here)

Eating Disorders
1. Eating Disorders - Answer (click here)
2. Anorexia Nervosa - Answer (click here)
3. Anorexia Nervosa: Differential Diagnosis - Answer (click here)
4. Bulimia Nervosa - Answer (click here)
5. Bulimia Nervosa: Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis - Answer (click
here)
6. Bulimia Nervosa: Assessment - Answer (click here)
7. Bulimia Nervosa: Differential Diagnosis - Answer (click here)
8. Binge-eating Disorder - Answer (click here)

Sleep and Sleep Wake Disorders

1. Physiological Regulation of Sleep and Wakefulness - Answer (click here)
2. Normal Age-related Changes in Sleep and Wakefulness - Answer (click
here)
3. Neurophysiology and Neurochemistry of Sleep - Answer (click here)
4. Sleep Disorders - Answer (click here)
5. General Approach to the Patient with a Sleep Disorder - Answer (click here)
6. Role of the Sleep Laboratory in Clinical Sleep Disorders - Answer (click
here)
7. Dyssomnias - Answer (click here)
8. Dyssomnias: Differential Diagnosis - Answer (click here)
9. Breathing-related Sleep Disorder - Answer (click here)
 10. Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorder (Sleep–Wake Schedule Disorders) -
Answer (click here)
11. Sleep-Wake Disorders: Shift Work - Answer (click here)
12. Periodic Limb Movements in Sleep - Answer (click here)
13. Parasomnias - Answer (click here)
14. Polysomnographic Features of Sleep in Psychiatric Disorders - Answer
(click here)
15. General Approaches to the Clinical Management of Sleep Disorders in
Psychiatric Patients - Answer (click here)
16. Sleep Disorders in Other Medical Conditions - Answer (click here)

Impulse Control Disorders

1. Impulse Control Disorders - Answer (click here)
2. Intermittent Explosive Disorder - Answer (click here)
3. Kleptomania - Answer (click here)
4. Pyromania and Fire-setting Behavior - Answer (click here)
5. Pathological Gambling - Answer (click here)
6. Pathological Gambling: Course and Treatment - Answer (click here)
7. Trichotillomania - Answer (click here)
8. Trichotillomania: Course, Treatment, Demographical Features - Answer
(click here)

Adjustment Disorders
1. Adjustment Disorders - Answer (click here)
2. Adjustment Disorders: Epidemiology - Answer (click here)
3. Adjustment Disorders: Etiology - Answer (click here)
4. Adjustment Disorders: Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis - Answer
(click here)
5. Adjustment Disorders: Maladaptation, Stresses - Answer (click here)
6. Assessment of the Subtypes of Adjustment Disorder, Comorbidity and
Diagnostic Boundaries - Answer (click here)
7. Adjustment Disorders: Treatment - Answer (click here)

Personality Disorders
1. Personality Disorder - Answer (click here)
2. Paranoid Personality Disorder - Answer (click here)
3. Schizoid Personality Disorder - Answer (click here)
4. Schizotypal Personality Disorder - Answer (click here)
5. Antisocial Personality Disorder - Answer (click here)
 6. Borderline Personality Disorder - Answer (click here)
7. Histrionic Personality Disorder - Answer (click here)
8. Narcissistic Personality Disorder - Answer (click here)
9. Avoidant Personality Disorder - Answer (click here)
10. Dependent Personality Disorder - Answer (click here)
11. Obsessive–Compulsive Personality Disorder - Answer (click here)
12. Personality Disorder Not Otherwise Specified - Answer (click here)
13. Passive–Aggressive (Negativistic) Personality Disorder - Answer (click
here)
14. Depressive Personality Disorder - Answer (click here)

Psychological Factors Affecting Medical Condition

1. Psychological Factors Affecting Medical Condition - Answer (click here)
2. Psychological Factors Affecting Medical Condition: Etiology and
Pathophysiology - Answer (click here)
3. Psychological Factors Affecting Medical Condition: Assessment and
Diagnosis - Answer (click here)
4. Psychological Factors Affecting Medical Condition: Differential
Diagnosis - Answer (click here)
5. Psychological Factors Affecting Medical Condition: Epidemiology and
Comorbidity, Course - Answer (click here)
6. Psychological Factors Affecting Medical Condition: Treatment - Answer
(click here)
7. Psychological Factors in Oncology - Answer (click here)
8. Psychological Factors in Cardiology - Answer (click here)
9. Psychological Factors in Endocrinology - Answer (click here)
10. Psychological Factors in Pulmonary Disease - Answer (click here)
11. Psychological Factors in Rheumatoid Arthritis - Answer (click here)
12. Psychological Factors in Neurology - Answer (click here)
13. Psychological Factors in End-stage Renal Disease - Answer (click here)
14. Psychological Factors in Gastroenterology - Answer (click here)
15. Psychological Factors Affecting Infectious Diseases - Answer (click here)
16. Psychological Factors in Obstetrics and Infertility - Answer (click here)

Medication induced Movement Disorders

1. Medication-induced Movement Disorders - Answer (click here)
2. Neuroleptic-induced Acute Dystonia - Answer (click here)
3. Neuroleptic-induced Parkinsonism - Answer (click here)
4. Neuroleptic-induced Acute Akathisia - Answer (click here)
 5. Neuroleptic-induced tardive dyskinesia - Answer (click here)
6. Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome - Answer (click here)
7. Medication-induced Postural Tremor - Answer (click here)

Relational Problems
1. Relational Problems - Answer (click here)
2. Diagnosis of Relational Disorders - Answer (click here)
3. Assessment of Relational Disorders - Answer (click here)
4. Treatment of Relational Disorders - Answer (click here)

Individual Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

1. What is Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy? - Answer (click here)
2. Transference and Resistance, Countertransference and Counterresistance
- Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy - Answer (click here)
3. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Basic Technique - Answer (click here)
4. How Does Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Work? - Answer (click here)
5. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Therapeutic Alliance - Answer (click here)
6. How Does Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Differ from Psychoanalysis? -
Answer (click here)
7. Tasks of the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist - Answer (click here)
8. Indications for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy - Answer (click here)
9. Contraindications to Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy - Answer (click here)
10. Supportive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy - Answer (click here)
11. Gender and Ethnocultural Issues in Psychotherapy - Answer (click here)

Group Psychotherapy
1. Group Psychotherapy - Answer (click here)
2. Group Psychotherapy: Group Development - Answer (click here)
3. Group Psychotherapy: Group Dynamics - Answer (click here)
4. Theories of Group Therapy - Answer (click here)
5. Group Psychotherapy: Beginning a Group - Answer (click here)
6. Group Psychotherapy: Special Treatment Considerations - Answer (click
here)
7. Group Psychotherapy: Alternative Treatment Formats - Answer (click here)

Time limited Psychotherapy Including Interpersonal Therapy

1. What is Time-limited Psychotherapy? - Answer (click here)
2. Overview of Interpersonal Psychotherapy - Answer (click here)
 3. General Principles of Time-limited Psychotherapy - Answer (click here)
4. Practical Issues in Time-limited Therapy - Answer (click here)
5. Common Problems in Time-limited Psychotherapy - Answer (click here)
6. Contraindication to Time-limited Psychotherapy - Answer (click here)

Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies

1. Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies - Answer (click here)
2. Cognitive Model - Answer (click here)
3. Behavioral Model - Answer (click here)
4. Cognitive and Behavioral Treatment Strategies - Answer (click here)
5. Behavioral Techniques - Answer (click here)
6. Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies: Treatment - Answer (click here)

Family Therapy
1. Family Therapy - Answer (click here)
2. Psychodynamic Family Therapy - Answer (click here)
3. Structural Family Therapy - Answer (click here)
4. Strategic Family Therapy - Answer (click here)
5. Cognitive–Behavioral Family Therapy - Answer (click here)
6. Postmodern Family Therapies - Answer (click here)
7. Family Psychoeducation Therapies - Answer (click here)
8. Family Resilience Therapies - Answer (click here)

Couples Therapy
1. What Is “Couples Therapy?” - Answer (click here)
2. Couples Therapy: Couples Function and Dysfunction - Answer (click here)
3. Couples Therapy: Secrets and Confidentiality - Answer (click here)
4. Evaluation of the Couple - Answer (click here)
5. Indications for Couples Therapy - Answer (click here)
6. Individual, Couple, or Sex Therapy for Sexual Problems - Answer (click
here)
7. Couples Therapy: Treatment - Answer (click here)
8. Couples Therapy: Strategies and Techniques of Intervention - Answer
(click here)
9. Treatment of Sexual Dysfunction - Answer (click here)
10. Couples Therapy: Effectiveness and Efficacy, Dropouts, Ethical Issues,
Boundaries - Answer (click here)

Hypnosis
 1. Hypnosis - Answer (click here)
2. Hypnosis: What It is and What It is Not - Answer (click here)
3. Hypnotizability Scales - Answer (click here)
4. Hypnotizability in Psychiatric Disorders - Answer (click here)
5. Applications of Hypnosis - Answer (click here)
6. Applications of Hypnosis in General Medicine - Answer (click here)
7. Applications of Hypnosis in Habit Control - Answer (click here)
8. Applications of Hypnosis in Forensic Psychiatry - Answer (click here)

Psychosocial Rehabilitation
1. Psychosocial Rehabilitation - Answer (click here)
2. Issues in the Design of Psychosocial Interventions - Answer (click here)
3. Psychosocial Rehabilitation Strategies - Answer (click here)

Electroconvulsive Therapy
1. Electroconvulsive Therapy(ECT) - Answer (click here)
2. Electroconvulsive Therapy(ECT): Treatment - Answer (click here)
3. New Somatic Treatments - Answer (click here)

Neurosurgery for Treatment Refractory Psychiatric Disorders

1. Characteristics of Patients Undergoing Neurosurgery for Treatment-
refractory OCD and MDD - Answer (click here)
2. Interventions - Neurosurgery for Treatment Refractory Psychiatric
Disorders - Answer (click here)
3. Risks of Neurosurgical Intervention - Answer (click here)
4. Recent Advances in Neurosurgery - Answer (click here)

Ethnic and Cultural Perspectives in Psychopharmacology

1. Ethnic and Cultural Perspectives in Psychopharmacology - Answer (click
here)

Antipsychotic Drugs
1. Pharmacology of Antipsychotic Agents - Answer (click here)
2. Antipsychotic Medications for Different Indications - Answer (click here)
3. Effects of Antipsychotic Agents on Symptoms of Schizophrenia - Answer
(click here)
4. Treatment of Different Phases of Schizophrenia - Answer (click here)
5. Use of Plasma Levels of Antipsychotic Drugs - Answer (click here)
 6. Drug Interactions and Antipsychotic Agents - Answer (click here)
7. Antipsychotic Medications and Pregnancy - Answer (click here)
8. Antipsychotic Drugs: Adverse Effects - Answer (click here)

Mood Stabilizers
1. Acute Mania - Answer (click here)
2. Acute Bipolar Depression - Answer (click here)
3. Maintenance Therapy - Answer (click here)

Antidepressants
1. Antidepressants: Mechanisms of Actions - Answer (click here)
2. Antidepressants: Taxonomy and Relation to Mechanism of Action -
Answer (click here)
3. Antidepressants: The Formulation of Treatment - Answer (click here)
4. Antidepressants: Preparation of the Patient - Answer (click here)
5. Antidepressants: Initiation of Treatment - Answer (click here)
6. Antidepressants: Starting Doses - Answer (click here)
7. Antidepressants: Continuation Period - Answer (click here)
8. Antidepressants: Discontinuance of Treatment - Answer (click here)
9. Antidepressants: Maintenance Period - Answer (click here)
10. Antidepressants: Treatment Failure - Answer (click here)

Anxiolytic Drugs
1. Anxiolytic Drugs - Answer (click here)

Sedative Hypnotic Agents

1. Sedative-Hypnotic Agents - Answer (click here)
2. Sedative-Hypnotic Agents: Nonprescription Agents - Answer (click here)
3. Sedative-Hypnotic Agents: Prescription Medications - Answer (click here)
4. Sedative-Hypnotic Agents: Suggested Guidelines for Prescribing
Medications - Answer (click here)

Stimulants and Related Compounds

1. Psychostimulants: Efficacy and Utility - Answer (click here)
2. Formulation of Treatment - Answer (click here)
3. Treatment with Stimulant Medications - Answer (click here)
4. Treatment Failure and Use of Long-acting Preparations - Answer (click
here)
Cognitive Enhancers and Treatments for Alzheimers Disease
1. Cognitive Enhancers and Treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease - Answer
(click here)
2. Restorative Approaches: Other Agents - Answer (click here)
3. Etiologically-directed Approaches in AD(Alzheimer’s Disease) - Answer
(click here)

Pharmacotherapies for Substance Abuse

1. Syndromes Related to Intoxication - Answer (click here)
2. Drug Treatment of Withdrawal Syndromes - Answer (click here)
3. Management of Withdrawal in Patients with Drug Dependencies -
Answer (click here)
4. Pharmacotherapies for Substance Abusers with Additional Types of
Psychiatric Illness - Answer (click here)

Therapeutic Management of the Suicidal Patient

1. Therapeutic Management of the Suicidal Patient - Answer (click here)
2. Hypotheses - Therapeutic Management of the Suicidal Patient - Answer
(click here)
3. Psychiatric Diagnoses - Therapeutic Management of the Suicidal Patient
- Answer (click here)
4. Risk Factors - Therapeutic Management of the Suicidal Patient - Answer
(click here)
5. Assessment of Suicidal Patients - Answer (click here)
6. Intervention, Education - Therapeutic Management of the Suicidal
Patient - Answer (click here)
7. Therapeutic Management of the Suicidal Patient: Lithium,
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) - Answer (click here)
8. Psychosocial Interventions - Therapeutic Management of the Suicidal
Patient - Answer (click here)
9. Aftermath: Clinicians Coping with Patient Suicide - Answer (click here)

Treatment of Violent Behavior

1. Treatment of Violent Behavior - Answer (click here)
2. Pathophysiology of Aggressive Behavior - Answer (click here)
3. Acute Agitation - Answer (click here)
4. Treatment of Violent Behavior: Long-term Treatment - Answer (click here)

Combined Therapies Psychotherapy and Pharmacotherapy

 1. Combined Therapies: Psychotherapy and Pharmacotherapy - Answer (click
here)
2. Positive Aspects - Answer (click here)
3. Negative Aspects - Answer (click here)
4. Legal Issues - Split treatment - Answer (click here)
5. Ethical Issues in Split Treatment - Answer (click here)
6. Toward Successful Split Treatment - Answer (click here)

Medication Compliance
1. Medication Compliance - Answer (click here)