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Basic Neurosciences136 topicsRevise this area
  • Classic candidate genes: SHANK3 (autism) and DRD4 (ADHD)
  • Narcolepsy tetrad
  • Functional MRI (fmri)
  • Neurulation: neural plate to neural tube closure
  • Neuroimaging in schizophrenia
  • Dopaminergic pathways
  • Acute intermittent porphyria: enzyme deficiency (HMBS/PBG deaminase)
  • Aphasias and language localisation
  • Synaptic plasticity (long-term potentiation)
  • Cranial nerve lesions
  • Heritability / familial risk
  • CRISPR-Cas gene editing
  • Cerebrospinal fluid and ventricular system
  • Anxiety disorders: classification and epidemiology
  • Autonomic nervous system
  • Fragile X syndrome
  • HIV disease markers
  • Neuroimaging patterns in dementia subtypes (SPECT/MRI)
  • Reticular activating system
  • Prognostic predictors of outcome after traumatic brain injury
  • Neuregulin and dysbindin as schizophrenia susceptibility genes
  • Optogenetics
  • G-protein coupled receptors and second messengers
  • Pick's disease
  • Mesolimbic dopamine pathway
  • Locus coeruleus
  • Deep brain stimulation indications
  • GABA-A receptor agonism
  • Hypochondriasis illness anxiety disorder
  • Limbic system / amygdala
  • Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome
  • Genetic syndrome with 20-30% increased risk of psychosis
  • Anton's syndrome
  • Parietal lobe functions
  • Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging
  • Neurotransmitter pharmacology
  • Catecholamine synthesis
  • Ribot's law of retrograde amnesia
  • Serotonin synthesis
  • Inflammatory hypothesis of depression (IL-6 and CRP)
  • Cerebral arterial territories
  • Thalamus and its nuclei
  • CNS infections (HIV/AIDS)
  • Hormone secretion sites
  • Neuronal and glial cell types
  • Meiosis and cell division
  • Balint's syndrome
  • Alzheimer's disease: course and behavioural/psychological symptoms (BPSD)
  • Molecular biology basics
  • Parasomnias (night terrors, nightmares, sleepwalking)
  • Blood-brain barrier
  • Genetic testing methods (karyotype, FISH, PCR)
  • Epilepsy and seizure semiology
  • Vagus nerve stimulation
  • Genetic loci of neuropsychiatric disorders
  • Thiamine deficiency syndromes
  • Slc6 transporter gene family and monoamine oxidase-related genetics
  • Genetic anticipation
  • EEG activation procedure useful in diagnosis (e.g. hyperventilation/sleep deprivation)
  • Caudate nucleus
  • Classification of human prion diseases
  • Neurotransmitter receptors
  • Mutation types
  • Cortisol receptor type
  • Receptor target of psilocybin
  • Dementia neuropathology
  • Neuroimaging modalities in psychiatry
  • Dementia genetics
  • Hypothalamus functions
  • Executive function
  • Lewy body dementia
  • Pain pathways and gate control theory
  • Flumazenil as treatment for a specific drug toxicity
  • Memory systems
  • Reward pathway (nucleus accumbens)
  • Action potential and ion channels
  • Autoimmune encephalitis (anti-NMDA receptor)
  • Transient global amnesia (TGA)
  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder
  • Hirano bodies
  • Corpus callosum and split-brain
  • Neurotransmitter metabolites
  • Apoe4 and Alzheimer's disease
  • Recreational drug use
  • Gestalt principles of perceptual organisation
  • Prefrontal syndromes
  • Frontal lobe dysfunction
  • Visual field defects
  • Memantine in Alzheimer's disease
  • Acetylcholine metabolism
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder features
  • Intelligence testing
  • Monoamine metabolism (MAO)
  • Frontal lobe function tests
  • Wilson's disease (hepatolenticular degeneration)
  • Neural correlates of empathy and interoception (insula and cingulate cortex)
  • Chromosomal abnormalities
  • Papez circuit and emotion
  • Animal models of psychiatric disorders
  • Working memory neuroanatomy
  • Compulsion-obsession relationship
  • Receptor target of zopiclone
  • Recurrent depressive disorder
  • Bipolar mixed affective state management
  • Anatomical location of the habenula
  • Schizophrenia endophenotypes
  • Depression after traumatic brain injury
  • Vascular dementia: diagnosis, course and management
  • Alzheimer's disease pathology
  • Gerstmann's syndrome
  • Gene: presenilin 2 association
  • Cerebellar signs
  • Huntington's disease neuropathology
  • Salience network
  • EEG findings by clinical condition
  • Basic synaptic neurotransmission
  • Prion disease (CJD)
  • Sleep architecture
  • Cortical lesion signs
  • Appetite-regulating hormones (leptin and ghrelin)
  • Genome-wide association study
  • Neuropeptides
  • Circadian regulation
  • EEG rhythms
  • CBT for chronic fatigue and pain
  • Lewy body / synucleinopathy
  • HPA axis and the stress response
  • Kluver-Bucy syndrome
  • Epigenetics
  • Hippocampal anatomy
  • Classification of intellectual disability severity by IQ range
  • Alzheimer's disease: epidemiology and risk
  • Basal ganglia circuitry
  • Histamine as a neurotransmitter
  • Neuroglia functions
  • Inheritance patterns
    • Behavioural Science & Sociocultural Psychiatry77 topicsRevise this area
    • Shaping (operant conditioning)
    • Halo effect and person perception
    • Group conformity factors
    • Visual hallucinations in Parkinson's disease
    • Group polarisation
    • Non-verbal communication
    • Attribution theory
    • Cognitive heuristics
    • Medical ethics principle of paternalism
    • French and Raven's bases of social power
    • Culture-bound syndromes
    • Yalom's therapeutic factors in group therapy
    • Acculturation
    • Research ethics
    • Stigma concepts
    • Learned helplessness (Seligman)
    • Psychophysics and perceptual thresholds
    • Yerkes-Dodson law (arousal and performance)
    • Self-efficacy (Bandura)
    • Group dynamics
    • Personality trait models (Big Five)
    • Attention
    • Group decision-making (groupthink and group polarisation)
    • Social psychology of groups
    • Likert-type agree/disagree rating scale
    • Maslow's hierarchy of needs
    • Medical ethics
    • Holmes and Rahe life events
    • Durkheim's theory of suicide
    • Total institutions (Goffman)
    • Defence mechanisms
    • Schedules of reinforcement
    • Cognitive dissonance
    • Attention (cognitive process)
    • Social identity theory (Tajfel)
    • Tarasoff principle (duty to warn)
    • Social origins of depression
    • Transference and countertransference
    • Illness behaviour
    • Operant conditioning
    • Episodic memory
    • Locus of control (Rotter)
    • Theories of emotion (James-Lange, Cannon-Bard, Schachter-Singer, Lazarus)
    • Social capital
    • Classical conditioning
    • Social comparison theory (Festinger)
    • Gillick competence and Fraser guidelines
    • Motivation theories
    • Leadership styles
    • Parenting styles
    • Health belief model
    • Conformity and obedience (Asch and Milgram)
    • Personality disorder types
    • Double bind theory (Bateson)
    • Working memory
    • Stimulus Preparedness
    • Theory of planned behaviour
    • Reciprocal inhibition
    • Gestalt perception
    • Memory retrieval types
    • Memory models and types (psychology)
    • Expressed emotion
    • Illness behaviour and the sick role (Parsons)
    • Bystander effect
    • Prejudice (Allport)
    • Attitudes and persuasion
    • Placebo and nocebo effects
    • Personality theories (psychodynamic)
    • Labelling theory
    • Hawthorne effect
    • Types of long-term memory
    • Emotion theories (James-Lange, Cannon-Bard, Schachter-Singer)
    • Eysenck's personality theory
    • Eysenck's PEN model of personality
    • Emotional intelligence
    • Behavioural therapy techniques
    • Anti-psychiatry (Szasz)
    Classification & Assessment in Psychiatry105 topicsRevise this area
    • Neuropsychological tests (overview)
    • Hemiballismus and chorea
    • Thought disorder in schizophrenia
    • Cannabis use and psychosis
    • Reactive attachment disorder
    • Hallucination types
    • Premorbid intelligence estimation (NART)
    • Hoarding disorder
    • Tic disorders (Tourette syndrome)
    • Somatic symptom disorder
    • Movement disorders in clinical practice (drug-induced)
    • Autism spectrum disorder
    • Prolonged grief disorder
    • Adjustment disorder
    • Specific learning disorder (dyslexia)
    • Personality assessment (MMPI)
    • Narcissistic personality disorder
    • Principles of risk assessment: actuarial, structured and dynamic approaches
    • PTSD (diagnostic criteria)
    • Dynamic (changeable) risk factors in risk assessment
    • First-rank symptoms in schizophrenia (Schneiderian criteria)
    • Enuresis and encopresis
    • ICD-11 and DSM-5-TR classification: structure, editions and history
    • Psychiatry: eponyms and history
    • Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
    • Alzheimer's disease: severity staging by MMSE
    • Catatonic phenomena
    • Motor signs: stereotypy and mannerism
    • Conduct disorder
    • Self-harm: epidemiology
    • Dependent personality disorder
    • Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID)
    • Anorexia nervosa
    • Ordinal rating-scale data
    • Separation anxiety disorder
    • Eating disorder: physical complications
    • Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS)
    • Schizoid personality disorder
    • Delusional misidentification (Capgras and related)
    • Nicotine dependence
    • Classification of movement disorders
    • Panic disorder
    • Paraphrenia
    • Delusions: primary versus secondary mechanism
    • Delirium: features and assessment
    • Alcohol withdrawal and delirium tremens
    • Memory falsification (confabulation, paramnesia)
    • Delusional disorder
    • Depersonalisation and derealisation
    • Borderline (emotionally unstable) personality disorder
    • Complex post-traumatic stress disorder
    • Synaesthesia
    • Abbreviated Mental Test Score (AMTS)
    • Speech disorders
    • Catatonia
    • Binge eating disorder
    • Formal thought disorder
    • Mental state examination: technique
    • Oppositional defiant disorder
    • Agoraphobia
    • Cyclothymia and dysthymia
    • Specific phobia
    • Hypomania and mania (diagnostic criteria)
    • Factitious disorder and malingering
    • Interview techniques
    • Alcohol dependence syndrome
    • Opioid use disorder
    • Delusional misidentification syndromes
    • Acute stress reaction
    • Substance-induced psychotic disorder
    • Stimulant use disorder
    • Bulimia nervosa
    • Gait disorders
    • Rating scales: selection, purpose and psychometric properties
    • ECG interpretation (psychotropic medication)
    • Avoidant personality disorder, including versus social anxiety disorder
    • Body dysmorphic disorder
    • Histrionic personality disorder
    • OCD: defence mechanisms and phenomenology
    • Schizotypal disorder
    • Anankastic (obsessive-compulsive) personality disorder
    • Social anxiety disorder
    • Generalised anxiety disorder
    • Depression: diagnostic criteria (ICD-11)
    • Personality disorder: clusters and diagnostic principles
    • Selective mutism
    • Dissociative disorders
    • Vulnerability and maintaining factors (formulation, 4 Ps)
    • Acute and transient psychotic disorders
    • Delusions (typology)
    • Sleep-wake disorders
    • Overvalued ideas
    • Cognitive examination
    • Rapid cycling bipolar disorder
    • ICD-11 personality disorder: dimensional trait-domain model
    • Dissociative (psychogenic) amnesia and fugue
    • Gender incongruence (ICD-11)
    • Anxiety disorder classification (overview)
    • Schizoaffective disorder
    • Classification of intellectual disability
    • Psychogenic polydipsia
    • Alexithymia and affect terminology
    • Functional neurological (conversion) disorder
    • Electrolyte abnormalities in psychiatry
    • ICD-11 diagnostic duration thresholds
    Clinical Psychopharmacology89 topicsRevise this area
    • Switching antidepressants
    • Anti-dementia drug mechanisms (cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine)
    • Pharmacodynamic terms
    • Antidepressants in pregnancy
    • Lithium teratogenicity
    • Lithium toxicity and monitoring
    • Substance pharmacology (stimulants)
    • Teratogenicity in pregnancy
    • Drug half-lives
    • Prodrugs and active metabolites
    • Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
    • Pregabalin and gabapentin
    • Tolerance and cross-tolerance
    • Congenital malformations associated with valproate in pregnancy
    • MAOI dietary interactions (tyramine)
    • Therapeutic drug monitoring
    • ECT mechanism of action
    • Eating disorder epidemiology
    • Orexin receptor antagonists
    • Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS)
    • Antipsychotic hyperprolactinaemia
    • Tardive dyskinesia
    • Hyperprolactinaemia management
    • Flumazenil
    • Antipsychotic-induced metabolic syndrome
    • Plasma protein binding
    • Alcohol pharmacokinetics
    • Alpha-1 antagonism effects
    • Neuroleptic malignant syndrome
    • Clozapine safety
    • Clonidine and alpha-2 adrenergic agonists
    • Neurosurgery for mental disorder (psychosurgery)
    • Psychotropic drug interactions (warfarin, St John's wort)
    • Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
    • Serotonin syndrome versus NMS
    • Melatonin and ramelteon
    • Antipsychotic receptor pharmacology
    • Z-drugs / GABA
    • Clozapine seizure risk
    • Anticonvulsant mood stabilisers (valproate / carbamazepine / lamotrigine)
    • Aripiprazole partial D2 agonism
    • Drug mechanisms (MOA)
    • Lithium side effects
    • Disulfiram reaction
    • Glutamate modulators (NMDA)
    • Beta-blockers in psychiatry
    • Acetylator status and metabolism
    • Serotonin syndrome
    • Buspirone
    • Agomelatine mechanism
    • Naltrexone and acamprosate
    • Postural (orthostatic) hypotension: definition and criteria
    • Pharmacokinetic order (first-order vs steady state)
    • Seizure threshold and drugs
    • Newer antipsychotic mechanisms (cariprazine, lurasidone, brexpiprazole)
    • Smoking and drug metabolism
    • Pellagra (niacin/B3 deficiency)
    • Drug selection (clinical)
    • Zero-order kinetics
    • Mood stabilisers in pregnancy
    • Bupropion mechanism
    • Antidepressant mechanisms
    • Area under the curve
    • Amantadine
    • Depot antipsychotic kinetics
    • Sildenafil mechanism
    • CATIE trial
    • Atypical antipsychotic receptor profile
    • Herbal psychotropics: St John's Wort and Kava
    • Light therapy for seasonal affective disorder
    • Ketamine and esketamine
    • Safe sedatives in hepatic impairment (LOT rule)
    • SSRI bleeding risk
    • Varenicline (nicotinic partial agonist)
    • Antidepressant discontinuation
    • Benzodiazepine mechanism
    • Beta-blocker contraindications
    • Mood stabiliser choice in renal impairment
    • Extrapyramidal side effects (acute dystonia and drug-induced parkinsonism)
    • Antipsychotic chemical classes
    • ADHD pharmacology
    • Opioid pharmacology
    • Drug interactions (cytochrome P450)
    • Drug-specific side effects
    • Lithium interactions and toxicity triggers
    • Akathisia
    • QTc prolongation with psychotropics
    • QT prolongation from drug interactions
    • Deep brain stimulation (DBS)
    Human Development31 topicsRevise this area
    • Marcia's identity status: moratorium
    • Piaget's conservation tasks stage
    • Gender development (social learning)
    • Marcia's identity statuses
    • Developmental milestones
    • Attachment classifications (Strange Situation)
    • Harlow's attachment research
    • Object permanence
    • Disorganised attachment
    • Language milestones
    • Kohlberg moral development
    • Fine motor milestones
    • Erikson's psychosocial stages
    • Theory of mind
    • Stability of personality over the lifespan
    • Neuroimaging findings in developmental disorders
    • Kohlberg's Preconventional Moral Stage
    • Child abuse risk factors
    • Piagetian cognitive development
    • Adverse childhood experiences
    • Grief and bereavement models
    • Mahler's separation-individuation
    • Marcia's identity status: foreclosure
    • Attachment styles
    • Gender identity development
    • Stages of change model
    • Puberty timing
    • Kohlberg's Conventional Moral Stage
    • Temperament (Thomas and Chess)
    • Effects of parental divorce
    • Freud's psychosexual stages