Psychiatry

Basic Science

• Normal sleep
• Biological theories of depression
• Biological theories of Schizophrenia and psychosis

Clinical Skills/Presentations

• Psychiatric History
• Mental state examination
  • Abnormal Appearance/Behaviour
  • Abnormal mood
    • Low Mood
      • Assessing/evaluating patients with suicidal thought/self harm
    • Elevated Mood
    • Anxiety
  • Abnormal perceptions
  • Abnormal beliefs/thoughts
    • First rank symptoms
    • Form of thought disorders
  • Cognitive impairment
    • Assessing cognitive function
• The practicalities of the Mental Health act
  • Deprivation of Liberty

Conditions

• Thought disorders/Psychoses
  • Schizophrenia
  • Delusional disorder
  • Acute/transient psychosis
  • Delusional misidentification syndromes
• Mood
  • Depression
  • Bipolar affective disorder
    • Mania/Hypomania
  • Cyclothymia
  • Bereavement and grief reactions
• Anxiety
  • Panic disorder
  • Agoraphobia
  • Simple/specific phobias
  • Social Phobia
  • Generalised Anxiety Disorder
  • Obsessive Compulsive disorder
  • Hoarding disorder
  • Acute stress reaction and disorder
  • Adjustment disorders
  • Post traumatic stress disorder
• Eating and impulsive disorders
  • Anorexia nervosa
  • Bulimia nervosa
  • Impulse control disorder and gambling disorder
• Sleep abnormalities
  • Insomnia
  • Parasomnia
• Personality traits and disorders
• Alcohol and drug addiction
  • Alcohol withdrawal
  • Wernicke’s encephalopathy and Korsakoff’s dementia
• Paediatrics
  • Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
  • Autism and autism spectrum (including aspergers)
  • Down’s syndrome
  • Learning disabilities
  • Tourette’s and tic disorders
  • Separation and attachment disorders
• Old age
  • Dementia
    • Alzheimer’s disease
    • Vascular dementia
    • Parkinson’s disease and Parkinson’s plus syndromes
      • Dementia with Lewy Bodies
    • Frontotemporal dementia
    • Other’s e.g. Pick’s disease; CJD; Huntington’s
  • Delirium

Managements

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• Antipsychotics
  • First generation
  • Second generation
  • Clozapine
• Anti-depressants
  • Selective seratonin reuptake inhibitors
  • Tricyclic antidepressants
  • Other antidepressants (Mixed re-uptake inhibitors; MAO-inhibitors)
• Electro-convulsive therapy
• Psychiatric neurosurgery
  • Depression
  • Psychosis