Category Archives: E-learning

Psychiatric mnemonics in sleep disorders

    REM: features REM: Rapid pulse/ Respiratory rate Erection Mental activity increase/ Muscle paralysis     Parasomnias:   time of onset SLeep terrors and SLeepwalking occur during SLow-wave sleep (stages 3 & 4). NightmaRE occurs during REM sleep (and is REMembered).       Sleep stages:   features DElta waves during DEepest sleep (stages 3 & 4, slow-wave). dREaM during REMsleep.         Narcolepsy:   symptoms, […]

Psychiatric Mnemonics in Depression

Psychiatry Mnemonics Psychiatry Mnemonics                       Reinforcement schedules: variable ratio SLOT machines show SLOwesTextinction.     Depression: major episode DSM-IV criteria · First, of course depressed mood is one. Then: SIG E CAPS: Sleep disturbance Interest loss Guilt (or intense worthlessness) Energy loss Concentration loss Appetite changes Psychomotor agitation or […]

Discovery of innovative therapeutics, today’s realities and tomorrow’s vision By Magid Abou-Gharbia* and Wayne E. Childers

  Magid Abou-Gharbia, Ph.D., FRSC is currently the Associate Dean for Research, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Director of the Moulder Center for Drug Discovery Research (MCDDR) at the School of Pharmacy, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. He is responsible for Setting and implementing School of Pharmacy research strategies to promote the school’s research […]

Tips and Hints on depression

Challenging and diagnosis of depression, a brief words selected from a full lecture given by professor Dr. Ahmed Saad , March 2014 in Jeddah SA Professor Ahmed Saad, is a professor of Psychiatry, faculty of medicine , Ain Shams University,Cairo, Egypt. At the present time He is a Senior Consultant Psychiatrist , Erfan Hospital in […]

Briefs in bipolar and unipolar mood disorder

Professor Tarek Asaad, professor of psychiatry , ain shams university, faculty of medicine. Here are several briefs of the same lecture about the updates in clinical and pharmacological research in bipolar and unipolar mood disorders,given in madinah , saudi arabia , march 2014.

Sudden death in psychiatric patients

Introduction Studies using death certificates have indicated an excess of sudden cardiac deaths among users of antipsychotic drugs compared to the general population, but may have underestimated the presence of other known causes of sudden and unexpected death. Objectives To assess the cause and risk factors for sudden death discovered by contemporaneous investigation of all […]

Updates in Depression – Full lecture Professor Okasha

  Professor Ahmed Okasha, gives a hint , about subtyping of schizophrenia, and why undifferniated schizophrenia is a weak diagnosis! Ahmed Okasha M.D., PhD, FRCP, FRCPsych, FACP(Hon.) is an Egyptian psychiatrist. He is a professor of psychiatry at Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. He wrote many books and articles about psychiatry and mental disorders. He […]

Borderline, Bipolar mood disorder or both

A full lecture in 2 parts presented by Dr. Adel Serag for Psychiatrists. Is it bipolar mood disorder or borderline personality or both? What are the different ways of differentiation and management     Lecture is given in 2 parts, discussing the illness monograph of a psychiatric patient with borderline traits and showed fully morbid […]

Do Hard To Be Hard

Dr. Adel Serag, consultant Psychiatrist, in a full lecture about steps taken to be hard and to enhance men’s hardness factor. The lecture is presented in 2012, specified for psychiatrists, the lecture is focusing on the hardness factor and how to compete for softness and enhance male hardness. ask the author for the pasword   […]

seclusion guidlines

You can find here  the seclusion criteria in PDF file , how ,why,when to manage  an aggressive or excited patient by seclusion.   seclusion-guidelines-feb10

Treating Depression in Patients With Diabetes : Quick Hints

(1) Psychological symptoms of depression in patients with diabetes are more specific to depression than their somatic counterparts (2) Specificity of the somatic symptoms of depression is increased when the somatic symptoms are severe, start concomitantly with depressed mood or anhedonia, are unrelated to diabetes, or appear out of proportion to what is expected (3) […]

Hints On managing Obsessive symptoms in Schizophrenic Patient

Insight:   • Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) with poor insight should be considered a severe form of OCD and not be mistaken for a primary psychotic disorder; a careful history is required to ascertain for insight in previous OCD exacerbations • OCD with poor insight may respond to treatment with an SSRI without the addition of […]

Dr.Deborah Hales

Dr.Deborah Hales Deborah Hales, M.D., director of the Division of Education at the American Psychiatric Association, explains how APA is helpng members with maintenance of certification requirements and attain recertification. John W. Newcomer, M.D. is Leonard M. Miller Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine at the University […]

Update of somatic treatment of depression

  Alan F. Schatzberg   Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (1991 – present) Director, Stanford Mood Disorders Center (2009 – present) Chair, Stanford University School of Medicine – Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (1991 – 2010)         Charles Nemeroff , M.D. Contact Fax: 305-355-9201 Specialties Psychiatry – Psychiatry & Neurology Languages English […]