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Psychiatry Mnemonics

Dr.NM Tamilmani by Dr.NM Tamilmani
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Master Psychiatry with Mnemonics: Simplify Complex Mental Health Concepts

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Conduct disorder vs. Antisocial personality disorder

  • Conduct disorder is seen in C
  • Antisocial personality disorder is seen in A
    • Reference: http://medicalmnemonics.com/

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Depression: UNHAPPINESS:

  • Understandable (such as bereavement, major stresses)
  • Neurotic (high anxiety personalities, negative parental upbringing
  • Hypochondriasis
  • Agitation (usually organic causes such as dementia
  • Pseudodementia
  • Pain
  • Importuniing (whingeing, complaining)
  • Nihilistic
  • Endogenous
  • Secondary (ie cancer at the head of the pancreas, bronchogenic cancer)
  • Syndromal
    • Author: Peter Loa Medical Student at Adelaide University

 

Depression: symptoms and signs (DSM-IV criteria): AWESOME:

  • Affect flat
  • Weight change (loss or gain)
  • Energy, loss of
  • Sad feelings/ Suicide thoughts or plans or attempts/ Sexual inhibition/ Sleep change (loss or excess)/ Social withdrawal
  • Others (guilt, loss of pleasure, hopeless)
  • Memory loss
  • Emotional blunting
    • Author: Muhammad Firdaus, MD Private Practice

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Erikson’s developmental stages: “The sad tale of Erikson Motors”:

­ The stages in order by age group:

  • Trust and MsTrust had an auto they were ashamed of. She took the initiative to find the guilty
  • She found the industry was inferior. They were making cars with dents [identity] and rolling
  • fuses [role confusion]. Mr. T. Macy [intimacy] isolated the problem, General TVT absorbed the cost.
  • In the end, they found the tires were just gritty and the should have used de- spare!
    • Author: VTF SN, NHCC, Texas

M

DIG FAST:

  • Distractibility
  • Indiscretion (DSM-IV’s “excessive involvement in pleasurable activities”)
  • Grandiosity
  • Flight of ideas
  • Activity increase
  • Sleep deficit (decreased need for sleep)
  • Talkativeness (pressured speech)
    • Reference: http://medicalmnemonics.com/

 

Mania: diagnostic criteria: Must have 3 of MANIAC:

  • Mouth (pressure of speech)/ Moodl
  • Activity increased
  • Naughty (disinhibition)
  • Insomnia
  • Attention (distractability)
  • Confidence (grandiose ideas)
    • Author: Waqar Ahmed Queens University, Belfast

P

Parasomnias: time of onset

  • SLeep terrors and SLeepwalking occur during SLow-wave sleep (stages 3 & 4).
  • NightmaRE occurs during REM sleep (and is REMembered).
    • Reference: http://medicalmnemonics.com/

 

Psychiatric review of symptoms: “Depressed Patients Seem Anxious, So Claim Psychiatrists”:

  • Depression and other mood disorders (major depression, bipolar disorder, dysthymia)
  • Personality disorders (primarily borderline personality disorder)
  • Substance abuse disorders
  • Anxiety disorders (panic disorder with agoraphobia, obssessive-compulsive disorder)
  • Somatization disorder, eating disorders (these two disorders are combined because both involve disorders of bodily perception)
  • Cognitive disorders (dementia, delirium)
  • Psychotic disorders (schizophrenia, delusional disorder and psychosis accompanying depression, substance abuse or dementia)
    • Author: Michael Waddell University of Wisconsin Medical School

S

Schizophrenia: negative features: 4 A’s:

  • Ambivalence
  • Affective incongruence
  • Associative loosening
  • Autism
    • Reference: http://medicalmnemonics.com/

 

Substance dependence: features (DSM IV): “WITHDraw IT“:

­ 3 of 7 within 12 month period:

  • Withdrawal
  • Interest or Important activities given up or reduced
  • Tolerance
  • Harm to physical and psychosocial known but continue to use
  • Desire to cut down, control
  • Intended time, amount exceeded
  • Time spent too much
    • Author: Anthony Chan
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