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Somatoform Disorders - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
 - Patient presents with complex medical problem or symptoms that
- Differential Diagnosis ... Motivation is secondary ... - Neurologic ... - One or more symptoms ... #Algorithm #Psychiatry
Causes of Excessive Daytime Sleepiness - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Insufficient Sleep
 • Poor Sleep Hygiene
 • Insomnia
Causes of Excessive ... - Differential Diagnosis ... Restless Legs Syndrome ... Medical/Psychiatric ... DisordersNeurologic
Causes of Thrombocytopenia and Platelet Disorders - Differential Diagnosis and Workup
History:
 - Prior platelet count, family
- Differential Diagnosis ... pylori test (GI symptoms ... (CVID, WAS), (neurologic ... /psychiatric changes ... candidate) - Bone
Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
What? Metamorphophsia - Distortions of the visual perceptions with changes in size (micro
in Wonderland Syndrome ... (Many causes!) ... • Epilepsy • Psychiatric ... disorders • Toxic ... #diagnosis #neurology
BEE Syndromes - Immune-mediated conditions affecting the brain, eye, and ear

Visual or auditory symptoms in conjunction
Visual or auditory symptoms ... conjunction with symptoms ... Inflammatory causes ... optica spectrum disorder ... #neurology #inflammatory
Confabulation
What? Honest Lie.  
No incoming sensory information + Filling of the blanks with different information
Disease, Anton's Syndrome ... Cortical Blindness, Psychiatric ... Disorders By Dr ... #differential #diagnosis ... #causes #neurology
Causes of Hypomagnesemia
 • Redistribution: IV glucose, Correction of diabetic ketoacidosis, IV hyperalimentation, Refeeding after starvation,
Causes of Hypomagnesemia ... metastasis (hungry bone ... ) • Endocrine disorders ... states, Primary or secondary ... #differential #diagnosis
Purpura - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Non-blanchable, dark red to purple, hemorrhagic skin lesions that result from leakage
- Differential Diagnosis ... leakage of RBC's secondary ... induced - Bone ... Kasabach-Merritt syndrome ... Gardner-Diamond syndrome
Localizing Extraocular Movement Disorders
 • CN Ill (Oculomotor) Nerve Palsy 
 • CN IV (Trochlear) Nerve
MLF) Iniury • One-and-a-half ... Syndrome • Cavernous ... Skew Deviation Casey ... ophthalmology #neurology ... #differential #diagnosis
Causes of Hypomagnesemia
Redistribution:
 - IV glucose
 - Correction of diabetic ketoacidosis
 - IV hyperalimentation
 - Refeeding
Causes of Hypomagnesemia ... metastasis (hungry bone ... tacrolimus) Endocrine disorders ... - Primary or secondary ... #diagnosis #differential