Focus for Final Exams Spring 2015

You will be expected to know the following areas with a view to recognizing the
clinical features and the main modes of treatment:
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Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders

Mood disorders Anxiety disorders
Somatic symptom and related disorders (include Factitious disorder and
malingering
5. Personality disorders
6. Psychiatric emergencies
7. Childhood disorders (ADHD,ODD,CD)

For the disorders, you will relate the clinical features to the first section of
the DSM IV/V criteria, bearing in mind that the remainder of the criteria
usually addresses differential diagnoses, substance misuse or functional
impairment.
You need to know the drugs which essentially are antipsychotics,
antidepressants, anti-anxiety (anxiolytics), mood stabilizers(LiCO 3 and the
anticonvulsants) and the antiparkinson agents (Benztropine, Trihex
phenidyl, DPH (antihistamines).
NB. For this exam, you will not be examined on Substance Misuse Disorders,
Neurocognitive disorders, Sleep disorders or Eating and Feeding disorders.