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    Parasomnias like sleep terrors and sleepwalking occur during slow-wave sleep, while nightmares occur during REM sleep. Biological symptoms in psychiatry that can be scaled include sleep disturbance, concentration, appetite, libido, energy, and diurnal mood variation. Some key features of melancholic depression according to DSM-IV are morning worsening of symptoms, psychomotor agitation or retardation, early morning waking, excessive guilt, loss of emotional reactivity, and anorexia or anhedonia.

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    Parasomnias like sleep terrors and sleepwalking occur during slow-wave sleep, while nightmares occur during REM sleep. Biological symptoms in psychiatry that can be scaled include sleep disturbance, concentration, appetite, libido, energy, and diurnal mood variation. Some key features of melancholic depression according to DSM-IV are morning worsening of symptoms, psychomotor agitation or retardation, early morning waking, excessive guilt, loss of emotional reactivity, and anorexia or anhedonia.

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    Parasomnias like sleep terrors and sleepwalking occur during slow-wave sleep, while nightmares occur during REM sleep. Biological symptoms in psychiatry that can be scaled include sleep disturbance, concentration, appetite, libido, energy, and diurnal mood variation. Some key features of melancholic depression according to DSM-IV are morning worsening of symptoms, psychomotor agitation or retardation, early morning waking, excessive guilt, loss of emotional reactivity, and anorexia or anhedonia.

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    Parasomnias like sleep terrors and sleepwalking occur during slow-wave sleep, while nightmares occur during REM sleep. Biological symptoms in psychiatry that can be scaled include sleep disturbance, concentration, appetite, libido, energy, and diurnal mood variation. Some key features of melancholic depression according to DSM-IV are morning worsening of symptoms, psychomotor agitation or retardation, early morning waking, excessive guilt, loss of emotional reactivity, and anorexia or anhedonia.

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    Some of the key takeaways from the document are that it discusses various psychiatric conditions like depression, dementia, schizophrenia and substance dependence and lists symptoms, causes and diagnostic criteria for these conditions.

    According to the document, some of the main symptoms of depression include depressed mood, loss of energy, anhedonia, changes in appetite or weight, sleep disturbances, decreased ability to think or concentrate, and psychomotor agitation or retardation.

    The main causes of dementia listed in the document are vitamin deficiency, intracranial tumors, trauma, anoxia, infection, normal pressure hydrocephalus, degenerative conditions like Alzheimer's disease, vascular conditions and toxic causes like alcohol.

    Parasomnias: time of onset SLeep terrors and SLeepwalking occur during SLow-wave

    sleep (stages 3 & 4).


    NightmaRE occurs during REM sleep (and is REMembered).
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    ---Anonymous Contributor

    Biological symptoms in psychiatry SCALED:


    Sleep disturbance
    Concentration
    Appetite
    Libido
    Energy
    Diurnal mood variation
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    ---Diablo Royal Free Hospital Medical School

    Depression: melancholic features (DSM IV) MELANcholic:


    Morning worsening of symptoms/ psychoMotor agitation, retardation/ early Morning
    wakening
    Excessive guilt
    Loss of emotional reactivity
    ANorexia/ ANhedonia
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    ---Anthony Chan

    Psychiatric review of symptoms "Depressed Patients Seem Anxious, So Claim


    Psychiatrists":
    Depression and other mood disorders (major depression, bipolar disorder, dysthymia)
    Personality disorders (primarily borderline personality disorder)
    Substance abuse disorders
    Anxiety disorders (panic disorder with agoraphobia, obssessive-compulsive disorder)
    Somatization disorder, eating disorders (these two disorders are combined because both
    involve disorders of bodily perception)
    Cognitive disorders (dementia, delirium)
    Psychotic disorders (schizophrenia, delusional disorder and psychosis accompanying
    depression, substance abuse or dementia)
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    ---Michael Waddell University of Wisconsin Medical School

    Depression: symptoms and signs (DSM-IV criteria) AWESOME:


    Affect flat
    Weight change (loss or gain)
    Energy, loss of
    Sad feelings/ Suicide thoughts or plans or attempts/ Sexual inhibition/ Sleep change (loss
    or excess)/ Social withdrawal
    Others (guilt, loss of pleasure, hopeless)
    Memory loss
    Emotional blunting
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    ---Muhammad Firdaus, MD Private Practice

    Erikson's developmental stages "The sad tale of Erikson Motors":


    · The stages in order by age group:
    Mr. Trust and MsTrust had an auto they were ashamed of. She took the initiative to
    find the guilty party. She found the industry was inferior. They were making cars with
    dents [identity] and rolling fuses [role confusion]. Mr. N.T. Macy [intimacy] isolated
    the problem, General TVT absorbed the cost. In the end, they found the tires were just
    gritty and the should have used de- spare!

    Schizophrenia: negative features 4 A's:


    Ambivalence
    Affective incongruence
    Associative loosening
    Autism

    Depression criteria/symptoms A SAD FACES:


    Appetite, weight changes
    Sleep changes
    Anhedonia
    Dysphoria (low mood)
    Fatigue
    Agitation (psychomotor)
    Concentration
    Esteem
    Suicide
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    ---The Fifth Year Kids at Wgtn School of Medicine Wgtn School of Med, Univ. of
    Otago

    Mania: cardinal symptoms DIG FAST:


    Distractibility
    Indiscretion (DSM-IV's "excessive involvement in pleasurable activities")
    Grandiosity
    Flight of ideas
    Activity increase
    Sleep deficit (decreased need for sleep)
    Talkativeness (pressured speech)
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    ---Anonymous Contributor

    Dementia: main causes VITAMIN D VEST:


    Vitamin deficiency (B12, folate, thiamine)
    Intracranial tumour
    Trauma (head injury)
    Anoxia
    Metabolic (diabetes)
    Infection (postencephalitis, HIV)
    Normal pressure hydrocephalus
    Degenerative (Alzheimer's, Huntington's, CJD, etc)
    Vascular (multi infarct dementia)
    Endocrine (hypothyroid)
    Space occupying lesion (chronic subdural haematoma)
    Toxic (alcohol)

    Substance dependence: features (DSM IV) "WITHDraw IT":


    · 3 of 7 within 12 month period:
    Withdrawal
    Interest or Important activities given up or reduced
    Tolerance
    Harm to physical and psychosocial known but continue to use
    Desire to cut down, control
    Intended time, amount exceeded
    Time spent too much
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    ---Anthony Chan

    Depression UNHAPPINESS:
    Understandable (such as bereavement, major stresses)
    Neurotic (high anxiety personalities, negative parental upbringing
    Hypochondriasis
    Agitation (usually organic causes such as dementia
    Pseudodementia
    Pain
    Importuniing (whingeing, complaining)
    Nihilistic
    Endogenous
    Secondary (ie cancer at the head of the pancreas, bronchogenic cancer)
    Syndromal
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    ---Peter Loa Medical Student at Adelaide University

    Conduct disorder vs. Antisocial personality disorder Conduct disorder is seen in


    Children.
    Antisocial personality disorder is seen in Adults.
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    ---Anonymous Contributor

    Depression: major depression criteria DEAD SWAMP:


    Depressed mood most of the day
    Energy loss or fatigue
    Anhedonia
    Death thoughts (recurrent), suicidal ideation or attempts
    Sleep disturbances (insomnia, hypersomnia)
    Worthlessness or excessive guilt
    Appetite or weight change
    Mentation decreased (ability to think or concentrate, indecisiveness)
    Psychomotor agitation or retardation

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