This high yeild podcast covers schizophrenia type disorders for the USMLE Step 1 exam.
I cover the following topics:
- Defining psychotic symptoms: hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thoughts/speech
- Example of a delusional belief about a small being inside the body
- Schizophrenia spectrum disorders: schizophrenia, schizophreniform, and brief psychotic disorder
- Differentiating the disorders based on the duration of symptoms: brief (<1 month), schizophreniform (1-6 months), and schizophrenia (>6 months)
- Progression from brief psychotic disorder to schizophreniform to schizophrenia
- Schizoaffective disorder: combination of schizophrenia and a mood disorder (MDD)
- Highlighting the importance of episodes with only schizophrenia symptoms in schizoaffective disorder
- Delusional disorder: focusing on delusions without hallucinations, disorganized thoughts/behavior, or mood disorders
- Contrasting delusions in delusional disorder with those in schizophrenia
- Litigious tendencies observed in delusional disorder cases
- Mood disorders with psychotic features: exploring MDD as an example
- Psychotic symptoms in MDD appear only during depressive episodes
- Clarifying the distinction between psychotic symptoms in MDD and schizoaffective disorder
- Summary: Understanding the different disorders and their symptom overlap.
