Psychiatry for Beginners
- 1st Edition - June 1, 2016
- Author: Ravi Gupta
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 8 1 - 3 1 2 - 4 5 0 2 - 6
This book has been designed for the beginners in Psychiatry. It is based upon the current knowledge regarding Psychiatric disorders and unfolds the neuro-scientific foundation of… Read more
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This book has been designed for the beginners in Psychiatry. It is based upon the current knowledge regarding Psychiatric disorders and unfolds the neuro-scientific foundation of the symptoms and their management. Chapters are clubbed into sections, and each section represents a super-specialty in the field of Psychiatry. Then it goes to the next level of organization. Disorders that share some common features are grouped into one chapter. Each chapter begins with the basic concept that ties all the disorders described in that chapter to reduce the burden on your memory.
- As you do in the clinics, each chapter starts with a clinical vignette and then discusses the clinical features of other disorders falling in the same group.
- Pathophysiology is depicted with the help of diagrams so as to improve your understanding.
- In addition to differential diagnosis, a section of diagnostic fallacies has been given.
- This book is based upon the DSM-5 criteria, which makes it useful for the students appearing in USMLE examination. However, for students from other countries a comparison between DSM-5 and ICD-10 has been provided.
- This book comes with complimentary access to enhanced e-book with digital assets:
- University and PG exam patterned MCQs
- Important case discussions
SECTION 1 BASICS IN PSYCHIATRY
1.1 Psychiatry: Emerging Neuroscience
1.2 History Taking and Examination of a Psychiatric Patient
1.3 Classification of Psychiatric Disorders: Changing Concepts
1.4 Investigations in Psychiatry
SECTION 2 CHILD PSYCHIATRY
2.1 Intellectual Disability
2.2 Specific Learning Disorders
2.3 Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder
2.4 Disruptive, Impulse Control and Conduct Disorders
2.5 Feeding and Elimination Disorders
2.6 Autistic Spectrum Disorder
2.7 Tic Disorders
SECTION 3 ADULT PSYCHIATRY
3.1 Mood Disorders
3.2 Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
3.3 Anxiety Disorders
3.4 Obsessive–Compulsive and Related Disorders
3.5 Culture-specific Disorders
3.6 Stress and Psychiatric Disorders
3.7 Sexual Disorders
3.8 Personality Disorders
3.9 Eating Disorders
3.10 Somatic Symptoms and Related Disorders
3.11 Dissociative Disorders
SECTION 4 ADDICTION PSYCHIATRY
4.1 Substance-Related Disorders (Addiction)
SECTION 5 NEUROPSYCHIATRY
5.1 Neurocognitive Disorders
5.2 Epilepsy and Seizure Disorders
5.3 Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis
5.4 Stroke
SECTION 6 SLEEP MEDICINE
6.1 Sleep and Its Disorders
SECTION 7 HEADACHE MEDICINE
7.1 Headaches in Psychiatry Practice
SECTION 8 EMERGENCY PSYCHIATRY
8.1 Emergency Conditions in Psychiatry
SECTION 9 NON-DRUG THERAPIES
9.1 Behavioural and Electrical Therapies That Affect Brain Function
SECTION 10 NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
10.1 Psychotropics: Classes, Mechanism of Actions and Adverse Effects
SECTION 11 CONSULTATION LIAISON PSYCHIATRY
11.1 Interface Between Psychiatry and Other Branches of Medical Science
SECTION 12 GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY
12.1 Old Age Psychiatry: General Principles
Online:
- PGMEE and University Exam Patterned MCQs
- Case Discussions—Depression | Mania | Schizophrenia | Delirium | Neurocognitive Disorder (Dementia)
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 1, 2016
- Language: English