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Anticonvulsants as Mood Stabilizers: Mechanism and Side-effect
Examples: Valproate, Carbamazepine, Lamotrigine
 • Mild anticholinergic effect -> Drowsiness
Allergic reaction -> Benign ... activity -> Dose-dependent ... Sedation, dose-dependent ... #SideEffects #Pathophysiology
Dependent Personality Disorder (DPD): Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings
 • Difficulties with Activities - Initiation Of projects
Dependent Personality ... Disorder (DPD): ... themselves DPD ... #Dependent #PersonalityDisorder ... Diagnosis #Psychiatry #Criteria
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: Pathogenesis and Medications
Aging
 -> Increased Testosterone -> Testosterone metabolized into DHT by type
Benign Prostatic ... inflammation #BPH ... #Benign #Prostatic ... Hyperplasia #Prostate #Pathophysiology
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings

Hormonal alterations (result of aging process)
    ->
Benign Prostatic ... of ER and AR -dependent ... bladder stones #BPH ... #Benign #Prostatic ... Hyperplasia #Prostate #Pathophysiology
Benzodiazepine (BZD) withdrawal: clinical findings and complications

 • Activation of ACC and OFC -> Feelings of
Benzodiazepine (BZD ... Asthma. or sense of being ... Activity -> Incr BP ... Benzodiazepine #BZD ... #pharmacology #pathophysiology
Opioid Withdrawal: Clinical Findings and Complications
Note: Opioid withdrawal can be extremely uncomfortable, but is rarely life-threatening
life-threatening (exceptions being ... symptoms varies depending ... Withdrawal #Opiate #Pathophysiology