mood disorder tutortial

Question 1

personality disorder as per DSM-5

Answer 1

antisocial/borderline/narcissistic

Question 2

differences between bipolar affective disorder (BPAD) and borderline personality disorder (BPD)

Answer 2

BPAD
-episodic
-heritable
-grandiosity
-mood less affected by environment.

BPD
-mood changes over hours/days, rather than days/weeks
-poor self image
-fear of abandonment
-feeling emptiness
-Hx of self harm
-hx of trauma/disrupted attachment

Question 3

Differentials: Bipolar Affective Disorder (BPAD) vs Schizoaffective Disorder

Answer 3

BPAD
-episodic delusions/hallucinations

schizophrenia-
-episodic delusions/hallucinations
-more prominent disorganisation of thoughts, paranoid delusional beliefs and auditory hallucinations

Question 4

Differentials: Bipolar Affective Disorder (BPAD) vs Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Answer 4

BPAD
-not necessarily present in childhood
-episodic
-fam hx
-recurrent depressive episodes
-amphetamines worsen mania

Question 5

what is vascular depression

Answer 5

associated with white matter hyperintensities -

Question 6

where is the lesion in post stroke depression?

Answer 6

lesions in the left frontal lobe or basal ganglia are apt to cause depression,

more frontal the lesion, the more severe the symptoms