IMPORTANT MOOD DISORDER TOPICS LEARN FOR THE FCPS-2 EXAM
Learn the differential diagnosis of depression, dysthymia, stupor, psychotic depression.
Outline the assessment and treatment of these conditions. Assess treatment resistance
Enlist or identify risk factors (dysthymia, depression) Investigate stupor, depression with organic findings Treatment options for refractory depression
Use of lithium in depression
Relevant guidelines, recommendations for depression Patient education about depression and antidepressants Antidepressant response
Association of depression with medical conditions Depression in pregnancy
Lithium (extensively tested from several aspects including risks and benefits used in pregnancy and lactation, predictors of response, efficacy in various conditions, mechanisms/causes of loss of efficacy in the long-term, etc. Take-home message >> wherever you see a line, a para, a topic about lithium READ IT)
(Postnatal) manic episode management and diagnosis Psychosocial interventions for bipolar affective disorder.
Genetic Epidemiology of bipolar affective disorder.
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