Problem-based-learning Topics

PBL 1:  Psychoses

  • Etiology
  • Epidemiology
  • Clinical manifestations
  • First rank symptoms
  • Positive symptoms
  • Cognitive symptoms
  • Behavioral manifestations
  • Diagnosis and differential diagnoses
  • Management
  • Prognosis

PBL 2:   Affective disorders

  • Etiology
  • Epidemiology
  • Classification
  • Manifestations
  • Diagnosis and differential diagnoses
  • Principles of management
  • Prognosis

PBL 3:  Anxiety Disorder 1 (Panic disorder)

  • The basis of fear. (Anxiety: the concept)

A.  Anatomical: Nucleus ceruleus & raphe nuclei project into hippocampus &  cingulate gyrus; Norepinephrine, serotonin, GABA
B.  Genetic: half have affected relatives
C.  Psychological: Id, separation, castration, superego anxiety
D.  Cognitive/behavioral: conditioning; cognitive conceptualization

  • Organic basis of autonomic dysfunction (anxiety)
  • Dependency needs
  • Significance of avoidance
  • Clinical Manifestations
  • Psychological
  • Somatic
  • Cognitive
  • Diagnosis & Differential diagnoses
  • Management
  • Prognosis

PBL 4:  Anxiety disorders II (Somatization disorder)

  • Chronic multi-organ symptoms without evidence of organicity (Somatization disorder).
  • What causes the pain? What is the mechanism?
  • Information processing deficit: vagueness, circumstantiality; social interpersonal, and occupational problems
  • Social communication model: somatization as means of expressing emotion/distress (Idioms of distress)
  • Symbolic significance of dyspareunia: dissociation (conversion)
  • Childhood (sexual) abuse
  • Painful reminders (of sexual abuse) in nightmares (PTSD)
  • Principles of management and prognosis
  • Somatization disorder
  • Childhood abuse
  • PTSD

PBL 5: Dementia and Delirium
•   Dementia: epidemiology, etiology, clinical manifestations, differential diagnoses 
•   Delirium: epidemiology, etiology, clinical manifestations, differential diagnoses 
•   Mini Mental status Examination (MMSE)

  • Management and prognosis of dementia and delirium

PBL 6: Substance abuse
•   Etiology
•   Manifestations
•   Complications
•   Management
•   Prognosis

 

PBL 7: ADHD
•   Epidemiology & Etiology of ADHD
•   Clinical features & management of ADHD
•   Epidemiology & epidemiology of eating disorders
•   Clinical features of eating disorders
•   Management of eating disorders
•   Prognosis of eating disorders