
Cover cluster c personality disorders by detailing egosyntonic OCPD versus egodystonic OCD, avoidant traits with sensitivity to criticism, and dependent personality disorder with clingy, caretaker-seeking behavior.
Prioritize patient safety by applying nonmaleficence—do no harm and minimize harm when unavoidable—by weighing risks and benefits, even when overriding autonomy to protect the community.
Identify neuroleptic malignant syndrome by fever, encephalopathy, vital dysregulation, elevation of myoglobin, rigidity, and hyperreflexia, then treat with dantrolene and bromocriptine targeting D2 receptors.
Neuroleptic malignant syndrome, caused by antipsychotics, presents with fever, altered mental status, muscle rigidity, and autonomic dysfunction, and can be fatal; culprits include haloperidol, chlorpromazine, fluphenazine, trifluoperazine, prochlorperazine, and risperidone.
Explore abnormal movements—chorea, myoclonus (hiccups), dystonia, athetosis, and tremors (essential, resting, intentional)—their patterns and links to basal ganglia disorders, hunting syndrome, parkinsonism, and cerebellar disorders.
Explore how REM sleep activates the brain and generates dreams, while muscle atonia prevents movement; in older adults and advanced parkinsonism, atonia fails, leading to REM sleep behavior disorder.
Psychiatric conditions can be interesting to interpret and diagnose. However, reaching the diagnosis is often difficult as many disorders overlap in presentation.
Often times, there are key features known as hallmarks in every presentation. These hallmarks are unique to every condition and they give the diagnosis away. The course aims at teaching you these subtle oddities and how to spot them.
Once diagnosis is made, a psychiatric physician proposes an appropriate management plan. These treatments are often a combination of lifestyle modification and medicinal management. The course will teach you all the behavioral therapies, their benefits and techniques, and when to use them. We will also explain all medications used by psychiatric physician, including antipsychotics, antidepressants, stimulants, and more.
We have divided the course into small bites. Each chapter includes the important topics in that area. For example, the chapter discussing autism includes the causes, risk factors, presentation, and management.
The course includes topics about personality disorders, adult psychiatric conditions, bipolar and depressive syndromes, ethical principles of psychiatry, and much more.
At the end of the course, we have included case-discussions. These cases are built carefully to mimic real-life examples that we commonly see in the clinic. There are also many quizzes which will help you memorize the important notes.