Mood disorders
Figure 6-1. Mood episodes. Bipolar disorder is generally characterized by four types of illness episodes: manic, major depressive, hypomanic, and mixed. A patient may have any combination of these episodes…
Antidepressants
Figure 7-1. Response. When treatment of depression results in at least 50% improvement in symptoms, it is called a response. Such patients are better but not well. Previously, this was…
Antipsychotic agents
Figure 5-1. Qualitative and semi-quantitative representation of receptor binding properties. Throughout this chapter, the receptor binding properties of the atypical antipsychotics are represented both graphically and semi-quantitatively. Each drug is…
Psychosis and schizophrenia
Schizophrenia Substance-induced (i.e., drug-induced) psychotic disorders Schizophreniform disorder Schizoaffective disorder Delusional disorder Brief psychotic disorder Psychotic disorder due to a general medical condition Table 4-2 Disorders in which psychosis is…
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and its treatment
Figure 12-1. Symptoms of ADHD. There are three major categories of symptoms associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. Inattention itself can be divided into difficulty…
Anxiety disorders and anxiolytics
Figure 9-1. Overlap of major depressive disorder and anxiety disorders. Although the core symptoms of anxiety disorders (anxiety and worry) differ from the core symptoms of major depression (loss of…
Chemical neurotransmission
Figure 1-1. General structure of a neuron. This is an artist’s conception of the generic structure of a neuron. All neurons have a cell body known as the soma, which…
Dementia and its treatment
Disorder Pathology Alzheimer’s disease Amyloid/tau pathology Dementia with Lewy bodiesParkinson’s dementiaMultisystem atrophy Alpha-synuclein pathology Frontotemporal dementiaProgressive supranuclear palsyCorticobasilar degeneration Tau pathology Huntington’s diseaseSpinocerebellar ataxia Trinucleotide repeat Wilson’s disease (copper)Hallervorden–Spatz disease…
Impulsivity, compulsivity, and addiction
Figure 14-1. Impulsive–compulsive disorder construct. Impulsivity and compulsivity are seen in a wide variety of psychiatric disorders. Impulsivity can be thought of as the inability to stop the initiation of…
Disorders of sleep and wakefulness and their treatment
Figure 11-1. Arousal spectrum of sleep and wakefulness. One’s state of arousal is more complicated than simply being “awake” or “asleep.” Rather, arousal exists as if on a dimmer switch,…
