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Psychotic Disorders - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Mood disorder with psychotic features
 • Psychotic symptoms present exclusively during
Psychotic Disorders ... Algorithm Mood disorder ... during major mood syndrome ... Schizoaffective disorder ... Diagnosis #Algorithm #Psychiatry
Causes of Excessive Daytime Sleepiness - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Insufficient Sleep
 • Poor Sleep Hygiene
 • Insomnia
Restless Legs Syndrome ... Limb Movement Disorder ... Hypoventilation Syndrome ... Medical/Psychiatric ... Disorders (Eg.
Munchausen syndrome 
Factitious disorder - Feigns disease in an attempt to gain attention, sympathy or reassurance
Munchausen syndrome ... Factitious disorder ... #Munchausen #syndrome ... #Factitious #disorder ... #Psychiatry #Diagnosis
Personality Disorders - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
• Enduring pattern of experience and behaviour that deviates from cultural
Personality Disorders ... expression • Narcissistic ... #Personality #Disorders ... Diagnosis #Algorithm #Psychiatry
Confabulation
What? Honest Lie.  
No incoming sensory information + Filling of the blanks with different information
Diseases: Korsakoff Syndrome ... Disease, Anton's Syndrome ... Cortical Blindness, Psychiatric ... Disorders By Dr
Causes of Palpitations
 • ARRHYTHMiA 
 • SINUS ARRYTHMIA 
 • ATRIAL FIBRILLATION 
 • ATRIAL
PARKINSON WHITE SYNDROME ... • METABOLIC DISORDER ... • HYPOXIA PSYCHIATRIC ... • ANXIETY DISORDER
Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
What? Metamorphophsia - Distortions of the visual perceptions with changes in size (micro
in Wonderland Syndrome ... • Epilepsy • Psychiatric ... disorders • Toxic ... Alice #Wonderland #Syndrome
Anticonvulsants as Mood Stabilizers: Mechanism and Side-effect
Examples: Valproate, Carbamazepine, Lamotrigine
 • Mild anticholinergic effect -> Drowsiness
Stevens-Johnson Syndrome ... relapse of bipolar disorder ... Pathophysiology #Psychiatry
Waxy Flexibility in Catatonia

Catatonia is a psychomotor condition characterized by the total loss of motor initiative,
occur in other disorders ... Catatonia #clinical #video ... #physicalexam #psychiatry
Pisa Syndrome (pleurothotonus) on Physical Exam
A tonic flexion of the trunk of the body to one
Pisa Syndrome (pleurothotonus ... neurodegenerative disorders ... FatimahDandan #Pisa #Syndrome ... neurology #posture #video