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 managemen