Description
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
Table of Contents
SECTION 1 BASICS IN PSYCHIATRY1.1 Psychiatry: Emerging Neuroscience1.2 History Taking and Examination of a Psychiatric Patient1.3 Classification of Psychiatric Disorders: Changing Concepts1.4 Investigations in PsychiatrySECTION 2 CHILD PSYCHIATRY2.1 Intellectual Disability2.2 Specific Learning Disorders2.3 Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder2.4 Disruptive, Impulse Control and Conduct Disorders2.5 Feeding and Elimination Disorders2.6 Autistic Spectrum Disorder2.7 Tic DisordersSECTION 3 ADULT PSYCHIATRY3.1 Mood Disorders3.2 Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders3.3 Anxiety Disorders3.4 Obsessive–Compulsive and Related Disorders3.5 Culture-specific Disorders3.6 Stress and Psychiatric Disorders3.7 Sexual Disorders3.8 Personality Disorders3.9 Eating Disorders3.10 Somatic Symptoms and Related Disorders3.11 Dissociative DisordersSECTION 4 ADDICTION PSYCHIATRY4.1 Substance-Related Disorders (Addiction)SECTION 5 NEUROPSYCHIATRY5.1 Neurocognitive Disorders5.2 Epilepsy and Seizure Disorders5.3 Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis5.4 StrokeSECTION 6 SLEEP MEDICINE6.1 Sleep and Its DisordersSECTION 7 HEADACHE MEDICINE7.1 Headaches in Psychiatry PracticeSECTION 8 EMERGENCY PSYCHIATRY8.1 Emergency Conditions in PsychiatrySECTION 9 NON-DRUG THERAPIES9.1 Behavioural and Electrical Therapies That Affect Brain FunctionSECTION 10 NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY10.1 Psychotropics: Classes, Mechanism of Actions and Adverse EffectsSECTION 11 CONSULTATION LIAISON PSYCHIATRY11.1 Interface Between Psychiatry and Other Branches of Medical ScienceSECTION 12 GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY12.1 Old Age Psychiatry: General PrinciplesOnline:- PGMEE and University Exam Patterned MCQs- Case Discussions—Depression | Mania | Schizophrenia | Delirium | Neurocognitive Disorder (Dementia)
