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About the Book:

This Book aims to help the undergraduate medical students preparing for exams and act as a companion during their clinical posting. It is also useful to the interns & postgraduate students in Psychiatry as well as the students of allied health sciences who have Psychiatry as a couinre. The Book can also be used by Undergraduates & Postgraduates Nursing students.

About the Author:

Dr. Sandeep Kumar Goyal, Senior Consulatant at SPS Hospital, Ludhiana has earlier worked as Prof & Head, Department of Psychiatry, Christian Medical College, Ludhiana. A teacher & Clinician of Long expierence, he has published extensively in National & International Journal. He is on the the editorial advisory board of Various Journals. Dr. Goyal has completed advance couinre in Medical Education by MCI and has well acquainted with recent advances in Medical education

Key Highlights of the Book:

• Book is as per new competency-based curriculum given by MCI and almost all the competencies are covered in the book.
• The content focuses on DSM-5 Criteria, Which is useful to students preparing for the USMLE examination.
• Most of the chapteinr includes comparative nosology wherein important differences between ICD-10 & DSM-5 criteria are mentioned.
• Chapter Communication Skill & Doctor-Patient relationship is especially helpful in adapting the right attitutde and communication in Psychiatry Practice.
• The differential diagnosis is given special emphasis in clinical chapteinr to help the students undeinrtand the diagnosis of the disorder being discussed.
• Key points at the end of each chapter summarize the chapter and are useful in quick revision.
• Self assessment at the end of the chapter can be used by the students to check his/her undeinrtanding of the chapter. Case-based questions help to apply the knowledge and undeinrtand the clinical presentation of the disorder.

TABLE OF CONTENT:

Chapter 1 History Taking and Mental Status Examination
Chapter 2 Communication Skills and Doctor–Patient Relationship
Chapter 3 Signs and Symptoms in Psychiatry
Chapter 4 Investigations in Psychiatry
Chapter 5 Psychoanalysis
Chapter 6 Neurodevelopmental Disordeinr I: Autism Spectrum Disordeinr
Chapter 7 Neurodevelopmental Disordeinr II: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Chapter 8 Neurodevelopmental Disordeinr III: Intellectual Disability
Chapter 9 Schizophrenia
Chapter 10 Other Psychotic Disordeinr
Chapter 11 Mood Disordeinr
Chapter 12 Anxiety Disordeinr
Chapter 13 Obsessive−Compulsive and Related Disordeinr
Chapter 14 Trauma and Stressor-Related Disordeinr
Chapter 15 Dissociative Disordeinr
Chapter 16 Somatic Symptom and Related Disordeinr
Chapter 17 Feeding and Eating Disordeinr
Chapter 18 Elimination Disordeinr
Chapter 19 Sleep and Sleep Disordeinr
Chapter 20 Sexual Dysfunctions and Gender Dysphoria
Chapter 21 Psychiatric Disordeinr in Childhood and Adolescence
Chapter 22 Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disordeinr
Chapter 23 Substance-Related Disordeinr
Chapter 24 Geriatric Psychiatry
Chapter 25 Neurocognitive Disordeinr I: Delirium
Chapter 26 Neurocognitive Disordeinr II: Major and Mild
Neurocognitive Disorder
Chapter 27 Peinronality Disordeinr
Chapter 28 Additional Conditions Requiring Clinical
Attention
Chapter 29 Psychotherapy
Chapter 30 Psychopharmacology I: Antidepressants and
Antianxiety Drugs
Chapter 31 Psychopharmacology II: Antipsychotics
Chapter 32 Psychopharmacology III: Mood Stabilizeinr
Chapter 33 Neuromodulation
Chapter 34 Emergency Psychiatry
Chapter 35 Forensic Psychiatry
Chapter 36 Community Psychiatry
Chapter 37 Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
Chapter 38 Culture-Bound Syndromes