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General Psychiatry
1. History of Psychiatry (care about mentally sick people in ancient Egypt, Hippokrates, Avicenna, witchcraft trials, P. Pinel, S. Freud; - psychiatric hospitals, out-patient’s care, community care)

2. Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders (family, twin, adoption studies, genetic linkage analysis)

3. Psychological and Social Theories of Mental Disorders (S. Freud -defense mechanisms -repression, regression, projection, denial, sublimation; C. Jung, A. Adler)

4. Social Psychiatry (out-patient’s care, community care, half way houses, protected workshops, etc.)

5. Neurobiology (prefrontal cortex, subcortical grey matter, limbic system)

6. Behavioural Development (motor, adaptive, language, social landmarks)

7. Disorders of Personality

8. Consciousness and its Disorders

9. Drives and Instincts and their Disorders

10. Emotions and their Disorders

11. Thinking and its Disorders

12. Perception and its Disorders

13. Memory and its Disorders

14. Acting, Behaviour and Volition and their Disorders

15. Intelligence and its Disorders

16. Electroconvulsive Treatment (ECT), Phototherapy, Sleep deprivation, Transcranial magnetic stimulation.

17. Psychotherapy - Basic Schools (psychoanalytically oriented, interpersonal, cognitive, existential)

18. Clinical Psychiatric Examination and Assessment

19. Transcultural Psychiatry - (specific culturally bound mental disorders, international studies, immigrants)

20. Imaging Methods in Psychiatry (CT, MRI, SPECT, PET)

21. Methods of Psychotherapy (rational, suggestive, hypnotic, family, individual, group psychother., autogenic training, psychotherapeutic approach)

22. Personality, Typology (Hippocrates, Kretschmer, Jung, Pavlov, Sheldon)

23. Approach to a Mentally Sick Patient

24. Psychological Assessment and Tests

25. Biochemical Tests in Psychiatry (serum concentration of drugs, metabolites of neurotransmitters - HVA, 5-HIAA, MHPG), dexamethazone suppression test, fenfluramine test. Lithium serum concentration…

26. Electroencephalography and Phaloplethysmography in Psychiatry (EEG, PPG)

27. Neurotransmitter Systems

Special Psychiatry
1. Classification Systems in Psychiatry (DSM-IV, ICD-10), Psychiatric Epidemiology

2. Alzheimer’s Disease - Clinical Picture, Treatment

3. Vascular Dementia

4. Amnesic Syndrome, Delirium

5. Dementia due to Infectious Diseases (Neurosyphilis, AIDS, etc.)

6. Dementia due to metabolic, toxic and brain injury damage

7. Mental Disorders in Systemic Diseases ( infectious, metabolic, cardiac, tumors, etc.)

8. Mental Disorders in Endocrinopathies (diabetes, hyper-, hypothyroidism, Addison´s Disease, Cushing´s Disease)

9. Mental Disorders due to Alcohol Use

10. Withdrawal State in Alcoholism, its Treatment

11. Treatment of Dependence Sydrome in Alcoholism

12. Mental Disorders due to Use of Opioids and Cannabinoids, Treatment

13. Mental Disorders due to Use of Stimulants, Sedatives and Hypnotics, Treatment, Risk of Dependence Syndrome

14. Mental Disorders Associated with the Puerperium, Menopause and Menstrual Cycle

15. Schizophrenia, Clinical Forms

16. Treatment of Schizophrenia

17. Persistent Delusional Disorders, Induced Psychotic Disorder

18. Acute and Transient Psychotic Disorders

19. Schizoaffective Disorders

20. Mood Disorders, Clinical Forms

21. Treatment and Prophylaxis of Mood Disorders

22. Obsessive-compulsive Disorder

23. Phobic and other Anxiety Disorders

24. Reactions to Severe Stress and Adjustment Disorders

25. Dissociative (Conversion) Disorders

26. Somatoform Disorders (somatization, hypochondriacal disorder)

27. Treatment of Neurotic Disorders

28. Eating Disorders

29. Sexual Dysfunctions

30. Psychosomatic Disorders (cardiovascular, respiratory, GI, etc.)

31. Specific Personality Disorders

32. Histrionic Personality Disorder

33. Gender Identity Disorders (transsexualism, dual-role transvestism)

34. Disorders of Sexual Preference (fetishism, transvestism, exhibitionism, voyeurism, paedophilia, sadomasochism,etc.)

35. Mental Retardation

36. Disorders of Psychological Development, Pervasive Developmental Disorders (disorders of speech, scholastic skills, motor functions, autism)

37. Schizophrenia and Depression in Childhood

38. Reactive Attachment Disorder of Childhood, Tic Disorders

39. Legal Position of Mentally Sick Persons (Declarations of Patients´Rights, Consent to Hospitalization, to Treatment, etc.)

40. Forensic Psychiatry (Criminal and Civil Laws- criminal responsibility, testamentary capacity, etc.)

41. Suicidology (suic. attempts, completed suicides, psychiatric illness + suicide, influence of society and age, etc.)

42. Psychiatric Aspects of Epilepsy

43. Sleep Disorders, Treatment (insomnia, hypersomnia, sleepwalking, night terrors, nightmares)

44. Behavioural Disorders in Childhood (enuresis, encopresis, pica, stuttering)


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Aaron_Rulseh psych history 0 Mar 7 2007, 12:53 PM EST by Aaron_Rulseh
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attached an example psych history below. Our teacher gave it to us to use as an example of what we should bring to the exam... said it's 'not perfect but good'

mirror here: http://www.4shared.com/file/11866126/a7c80cce/example_psychHistory.html
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chelle_collins questions 0 Feb 5 2007, 4:58 AM EST by chelle_collins
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these are the ones i got from pr. pavlovsky when i told him i wouldnt be there for classes, but that was back in november so if you think they're different please change them! No point the wrong ones being up.
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Anonymous EXAM QUESTIONS 1 Feb 3 2007, 6:39 PM EST by Anonymous
 
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These are not the same as the ones i got from the secretary...
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Example psych history

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