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Addiction Psychiatry1 topicRevise this area
  • Stages of change
Descriptive Statistics & Distributions2 topicsRevise this area
  • Median, range, interquartile range, standard deviation and variance
  • Charts for data: histogram, bar chart, pie chart, scatter plot, Kaplan-Meier curve and more
Effect Measures & Meta-analysis2 topicsRevise this area
  • Forest plots: effect size, precision and significance
  • Heterogeneity and publication bias in meta-analysis
Forensic Psychiatry2 topicsRevise this area
  • Personality disorder, psychosis and suicide in prisoners
  • Automatism, diminished responsibility, infanticide and pathological intoxication
General Adult Psychiatry4 topicsRevise this area
  • Neurosurgery and brain stimulation for mental disorder: anterior cingulotomy, deep brain stimulation and rTMS
  • Drug treatment of panic disorder, social phobia and generalised anxiety disorder: SSRI, tricyclic, moclobemide, pregabalin
Teratogen risk in pregnancy: valproate, lithium, carbamazepine, paroxetine and diazepam
  • IQCODE, CAMDEX, Cornell Scale, RUDAS, NART and other assessment tools
    • Inferential Statistics3 topicsRevise this area
    • Standard error of the mean and confidence intervals
    • Choosing a statistical test: t-tests, ANOVA, Mann-Whitney, Wilcoxon, Kruskal-Wallis and more
    • Correlation coefficients: Pearson's, Spearman's rank, phi and more
    Learning Disability2 topicsRevise this area
    • Genetic syndromes with signature behaviours
    • Body signs of intellectual disability syndromes: Down, Williams, Turner, Prader-Willi and more
    Liaison Psychiatry1 topicRevise this area
    • Medically unexplained symptoms and factitious disorder
    Old Age Psychiatry2 topicsRevise this area
    • Dementia with Lewy bodies, neuroleptic sensitivity and Parkinson's disease dementia
    • Prevalence of dementia, depression and delirium in older people
    Organisation & Delivery of Care2 topicsRevise this area
    • Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention, and universal, selective and indicated prevention
    • Direct, indirect and intangible costs of illness
    Study Design & Bias3 topicsRevise this area
    • Study designs: cohort, case-control, nested case-control, controlled trials and more
    • Reliability statistics: inter-rater reliability, kappa, intra-class correlation, Cronbach's alpha and more
    • Qualitative research approaches: phenomenology, ethnography, grounded theory and more