The widespread issue of drug addiction has plagued the world for so long that it’s almost impossible to backtrack where it even started. Regardless, many…
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Psychiatry
Best Treatments for Anxiety and Depression Management
The diagnosis of mental health illnesses, such as anxiety and depression, can be challenging for healthcare professionals. Although the DSM-5 has specific criteria for making…
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Definition of terms in Psychiatry
1. Speech: Ideas, thoughts, feelings expressed through language 2. Emotion: Complex phenomenon involving reactions in 3 different components: Feeling experienced by subject (joy, sadness, anger)…
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Personality Disorders – Mnemonic
If you are having a hard time remembering the clusters and which disorder falls into which cluster, this mnemonic will be helpful. Three clusters: A,…
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1. Duration: ≥1 months 2. ≥1 of Schneider’s 1st rank symptoms: Mnemonic: ABCDE a. Auditory hallucinations: Voices heard arguing (3rd person), Thought echo, Running commentary b. Bizzare…
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Musician and Suicide – The science behind
Suicide is death resulting from an intentional, self-inflicted act, with evidence (either explicit, such as a note that clearly communicates the person’s expectation of death,…
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Folstein Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE): Mnemonic
ORARL, 5-3-5-3-9 1. Orientation: Time (5 points – 1 for each correct): What is the: (year) (season) (date) (day) (month)? Place (5 points – 1 for…
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Many communities around the country are faced with the reality that an alarming number of young people are trying tobacco, alcohol and other dangerous drugs.…
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