Mood Disorders
Minimum duration of a Major Depressive Episode?
What is 2 weeks?
Minimum duration of symptoms required for PTSD in adults.
What is one month?
Which cluster is described as “odd or eccentric”?
Cluster A.
Minimum age for ADHD diagnosis is usually identified before this age.
What is age 12?
Minimum number of symptoms for Substance Use Disorder diagnosis.
What is 2 within 12 months?
In Bipolar II Disorder, the depressive episode must last at least this long.
What is 2 weeks?
What differentiates Acute Stress Disorder from PTSD?
Acute Stress Disorder lasts 3 days to 1 month; PTSD is 1 month or more.
The most heritable personality disorder.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder cannot be diagnosed for the first time after this age.
What is age 18?
In Alcohol Withdrawal, seizures are most likely to occur within this timeframe.
6–48 hours after cessation/reduction.
This specifier in Major Depressive Disorder involves lack of mood reactivity and worse symptoms in the morning.
What is “with melancholic features”?
In Panic Disorder, at least one attack is followed by 1 month of what?
Persistent concern about additional attacks and/or maladaptive behavior change.
What key distinction differentiates Borderline Personality Disorder from Bipolar II?
BPD mood instability is rapid, situational, and reactive; Bipolar II has episodic, sustained hypomanic/depressive episodes.
Which disorder requires at least 3 settings to show impairment?
What is ADHD?
What differentiates Delirium from Major Neurocognitive Disorder?
Delirium has acute onset, fluctuating course, and disturbance in attention/awareness; NCD is gradual and progressive.
How do you differentiate between Cyclothymic Disorder and Bipolar II?
Cyclothymia requires at least 2 years of numerous hypomanic & depressive symptoms that never meet full criteria; Bipolar II requires at least one hypomanic and one major depressive episode.
What’s the main diagnostic difference between Social Anxiety Disorder and Avoidant Personality Disorder?
SAD is fear in social/performance situations; Avoidant PD is pervasive across relationships and life domains.
Which personality disorder includes preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control at the expense of flexibility?
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder?
Core feature distinguishing Conduct Disorder from Oppositional Defiant Disorder.
Conduct Disorder involves violation of others’ rights/societal norms; ODD involves defiance/hostility without aggression toward people/animals.
Alcohol-Induced Major Neurocogntive Disorder, Amnestic Confabulatory Type, aka Korsakoff’s Syndrome, is caused by deficiency of this vitamin.
What is Thiamine (Vitamin B1)?
The presence of mood episodes exclusively during psychotic episodes indicates which diagnosis over schizoaffective disorder?
What is Schizophrenia?
Name the 4 PTSD symptom clusters.
Intrusion, Avoidance, Negative Alterations in Cognition/Mood, and Arousal/Reactivity.
DSM-5 Alternative Model defines PDs by two main criteria domains.What are they?
Impairments in self/interpersonal functioning and pathological personality traits.
Autism Spectrum Disorder requires deficits in these two domains.
Social communication/interaction and restricted, repetitive behaviors.
Probable Major Neurocognitive Disorder due to Alzheimer’s Disease is diagnosed when either of these conditions is met.
Genetic mutation evidence OR clear evidence of decline in memory/learning and at least one other domain, with insidious onset and gradual progression.