Psychiatry
16 Threads
🧵Apotemnophilia In the 90s, Dr. Robert Smith, a surgeon at Falkirk Royal Infirmary, performed leg amputations on two men. Both men were perfectly healthy but suffering from apotem...
A teenager who would intermittently rotate around himself for 1 minute 1. 15-year-old Raju was referred for evaluation of unusual behavior. For past one year, he would start rotat...
Even on the biochemistry side, mainstream psychiatry tries to overly simplify far more complex and even mitochondrial/metabolic hyper and hypo activity, while sticking to the same...
TEN differences between a Psychiatrist and a Psychologist in Kenya. (May this question rest). #MentalHealth254 THREAD.
"Is this serotonin syndrome or NMS?" In a patient with hyperthermia, altered mental status and neuromuscular abnormalities, evaluating 3 factors makes the distinction easier 🧵 /...
When an old woman started speaking in a "foreign" accent all of a sudden 1. About a year back, a 70-year old woman was brought by her son to my OPD. As per him, she had started to...
There are 2 types of patients in psychiatry. The 1st type find it difficult to accept that they have a problem, are reluctant for treatment, keep looking for some 'magical' cure a...
Through the eyes!!! “ocular reflexes are the simplest ocular motor responses” German psychiatrist Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal (1833–1890) #MedTwitter #neurotwitter #EndNeuropho...
One thing critics of psychiatry and the medical model get wrong is the focus on stigma as a (or the) primary reason to not diagnose or to view the current way we diagnose as proble...
What many psychiatric patients need is not a drug but community, economic support, and sense of purpose. “But we can’t prescribe that,” it’s said. Why not? Why can’t we build commu...
In my child psychiatry practice (Pune, India), commonest diagnosis is not autism or ADHD or dyslexia (SLD) or even food/Discipline/screen time related issues. It is - Postpartum...
Differential diagnosis of dementia subtypes 🧠
#Thread A German's View on I$l@m Very interesting and worth reading because this is by far the best explanation of the Mu$l!m te₹₹orist situation I have ever read. His references...
Welcome to Congress Lounge Session 5 chaired by @adave_NHS. https://t.co/5W2ajmZtz1
1/16 Why do patients with primary polydipsia continue to drink, sometimes to the point of severe hyponatremia? To answer this question, we'll have to explore what makes us thirsty...
THREAD: School closure and kids I am an expert in child & adolescent EMERGENCY psychiatry. This is my expert opinion: It's complex, and it is not easy to answer COVID = BAD E...
