Great question! The main things to keep in mind are using whatever diagnostic criteria they are giving and using those when you can. Like for example with schizoaffective, they will almost always emphasize a 2-week period with psychotic symptoms and no features of the mood disorder. Otherwise sometimes it can be helpful to try and figure out what the primary symptom(s) are and which seems more "accessory" or "secondary". For example in bipolar disorder with psychotic features, the hallmark symptoms of mania will be the focal point of the question with some added notes about hallucinations. For sure though these can be difficult and it's a combo of using diagnostic criteria and using the "picture" they are trying to paint to find the underlying primary diagnosis.
This is fantastic. Please please do more of these for psychiatry. Excellent teacher.
I just started studying step2 ck . Had struggles with questions.😔 just found your video. God bless you❤
watching this at the beginning of my psych clerkship as a preview and its perfect! thanks!
this is great, thank you!! the rapid review is especially helpful
Awesome information. Very well organized.
Outstanding presentation
Very much so!👏🏾
Yessir thanks doc
not sure if you'll see this but how do you differentiate between manic psychosis and one of the schizo diseases? That trips me up in question stems
Great question! The main things to keep in mind are using whatever diagnostic criteria they are giving and using those when you can. Like for example with schizoaffective, they will almost always emphasize a 2-week period with psychotic symptoms and no features of the mood disorder.
Otherwise sometimes it can be helpful to try and figure out what the primary symptom(s) are and which seems more "accessory" or "secondary". For example in bipolar disorder with psychotic features, the hallmark symptoms of mania will be the focal point of the question with some added notes about hallucinations.
For sure though these can be difficult and it's a combo of using diagnostic criteria and using the "picture" they are trying to paint to find the underlying primary diagnosis.
Superb bro. ❤