Lectures in Psychiatry

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Lectures in Psychiatry

Audio recording with slides of my lectures to medical students. Relevant to medical students/interns of any country/university posted in Psychiatry.

1. Lecture: Introduction to Psychiatry, Classification & Etiology

https://youtu.be/i479pF4-Yek
Includes detailed explanation of the following slides:
What is Psychiatry?Role of psychiatristPsychiatry not to be confused with... (difference between Psychiatry & Psychology)Mental health teams (components of multidisciplinary psychiatric teams)Branches of PsychiatryDefinition of mental healthConsequences of mental illnessClassification (of psychiatric disorders)Systems of classificationICD-10 Chapter VDSM-5 multiaxial classificationDifferences between ICD-10 & DSM-5Etiology (of psychiatric disorders)Psychiatric assessment (steps involved)Etiological formulation (based on biopsychosocial model)Formulation: etiology of bipolar affective disorder (an example)Extra slide: Management: investigations + treatment (based on biopsychosocial model)

2. Lecture: Interview techniques, History taking in Psychiatry & Mental State Examination

https://youtu.be/lV308KwLjqU
Includes detailed explanation of the following slides:Interview techniques 2/2 (setting the scene, assessment & questioning style)History 3/3 (steps of history taking with examples/significance)Mental state examination 2/2 (steps of MSE with examples/significance)Diagnosis & Formulation (biopsychosocial approach)

3. Lecture: Psychopathology

https://youtu.be/Ch7QSdhXJCc
Includes detailed explanation of the following slides:
Psychopathology (introduction, pioneers)Appearance & behaviour 1/2 (attitude, rapport, tics, tremors, chorea, athetosis, dystonia, stereotypies, mannerisms, compulsive acts)Appearance & behaviour 2/2 (mitmachen, mitgehen, gegenhaltan, negativism, ambitendency, catalepsy, echopraxia, stupor)Speech (poverty of speech, pressure of speech, perseveration, circumstantiality, tangengiality, echolalia, coprolalia, mutism, dysarthria/dysphonia/dysphasia)Affect & mood (labile, flattened, congruous/incongruous affect; euthymic, dysthymic, hyperthymic, cyclothymic, depressed, hypomanic, manic, anxious mood)Thoughts (retarded thinking, thought block, perseveration, circumstantiality, desultory thinking, flight of ideas, knight’s move thinking, vorbeireden, verbigeration, neologisms, obsessions/phobias, overvalued ideas/delusions, suicidal ideas)Perception (illusions, hallucinations, depersonalisation, derealisation)Cognition (consciousness, attention & concentration, disorientation, amnesia, apraxia, agnosia)Insight (partial/full/absent)

4. Lecture: Stress, Adjustment disorders & Anxiety disorders

https://youtu.be/JMMzNWsqDiI
Includes detailed explanation of the following slides:
Stress & adjustment disorders (acute stress reaction, adjustment disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder/PTSD: clinical features, associations)Anxiety (normal/abnormal)Yerkes-Dodson curve (relationship between arousal & performance)General symptoms (physical & psychological symptoms of anxiety)Panic disorder (clinical features, associations)Generalised anxiety disorder (clinical features, associations)Phobias (agoraphobia, social phobia, specific phobias: clinical features, associations)OCD/Obsessive-compulsive disorder (nature & examples of obsessions & compulsions; clinical features, associations of OCD)Management (biopsychosocial approach) 5. Lecture: Grief & bereavement reactions, Mood disorders, Suicide & parasuicide (DSH)

https://youtu.be/2FI9SUVtKJk
Includes detailed explanation of the following slides:
Overview of contents
Grief & bereavement reactions (stages of grief, clinical features & management of abnormal bereavement reaction)
Depression: core features

Depression: biological/somatic symptoms

Depression: psychological/cognitive symptoms

Depression: psychotic symptoms

Mania: core features

Mania: biological/somatic symptoms

Mania: psychological/cognitive symptoms

Mania: psychotic symptoms

Psychopathological differences: mania & schizophrenia (table)

Clinical distinction between hypomania & mania (flowchart)

Mood disorder diagnostic algorithm (flowchart)

Bipolar affective disorder (types 1 & 2, mixed affective state)

Management (biopsychosocial approach for depression/mania/BPAD)