Examination Notes in Psychiatry

Peter Buckley - Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Medical College of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia, USADel Prewette - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow, Palmetto Health/University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, South Carolina, USAJonathan Bird - Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, The Burden Centre for Neuropsychiatry, and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Division of Psychiatry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UKGlynn Harrison - Norah Cooke Hurle Professor of Mental Health, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

• 1 Research methodology and statistics2 Descriptive psychopathology3 Schizophrenia4 Affective disorders5 Neurotic disorders6 Personality: development and disorders7 Eating disorders8 Human sexuality9 Alcohol dependence10 Drug dependence and gambling11 Suicide and non-fatal deliberate self-harm12 Uncommon psychiatric syndromes13 Organic psychiatry14 Psychiatric aspects of epilepsy and sleep disorders15 EEG and brain imaging in psychiatry16 Psychophysiological, somatoform, dissociative, and related disorders17 Psychogeriatrics18 Forensic psychiatry19 Child psychiatry20 Mental retardation21 Drug therapy22 Physical treatments23 Psychotherapy24 Community-orientated psychiatry25 Specific psychiatric problems of women26 Transcultural psychiatry27 Psychiatry and the Internet

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