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