Mood Disorders
Anxiety & Trauma Disorders
Personality Disorders
Child & Adolescent Disorders
Substance & Neurocognitive Disorders
100

Minimum duration of a Major Depressive Episode?

What is 2 weeks?

100

Minimum duration of symptoms required for PTSD in adults.

What is one month? 

100

Which cluster is described as “odd or eccentric”?

Cluster A.

100

Minimum age for ADHD diagnosis is usually identified before this age.

What is age 12?

100

Minimum number of symptoms for Substance Use Disorder diagnosis.

What is 2 within 12 months?

200

In Bipolar II Disorder, the depressive episode must last at least this long.

What is 2 weeks?

200

What differentiates Acute Stress Disorder from PTSD?

Acute Stress Disorder lasts 3 days to 1 month; PTSD is 1 month or more.

200

The most heritable personality disorder.

What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?

200

Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder cannot be diagnosed for the first time after this age.

What is age 18?

200

In Alcohol Withdrawal, seizures are most likely to occur within this timeframe.

6–48 hours after cessation/reduction.

300

This specifier in Major Depressive Disorder involves lack of mood reactivity and worse symptoms in the morning.

What is “with melancholic features”?

300

In Panic Disorder, at least one attack is followed by 1 month of what?

Persistent concern about additional attacks and/or maladaptive behavior change.

300

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.

300

Which disorder requires at least 3 settings to show impairment?

What is ADHD?

300

What differentiates Delirium from Major Neurocognitive Disorder?

Delirium has acute onset, fluctuating course, and disturbance in attention/awareness; NCD is gradual and progressive.

400

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.

400

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.

400

Which personality disorder includes preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control at the expense of flexibility?

What is Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder?

400

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.

400

Alcohol-Induced Major Neurocogntive Disorder, Amnestic Confabulatory Type, aka Korsakoff’s Syndrome, is caused by deficiency of this vitamin.

What is Thiamine (Vitamin B1)?

500

The presence of mood episodes exclusively during psychotic episodes indicates which diagnosis over schizoaffective disorder?

What is Schizophrenia?

500

Name the 4 PTSD symptom clusters.

Intrusion, Avoidance, Negative Alterations in Cognition/Mood, and Arousal/Reactivity.

500

DSM-5 Alternative Model defines PDs by two main criteria domains.What are they?

Impairments in self/interpersonal functioning and pathological personality traits.

500

Autism Spectrum Disorder requires deficits in these two domains.

Social communication/interaction and restricted, repetitive behaviors.

500

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.