Quizzes

Your patient is excited to be pregnant. She is currently on sertraline, and has been stable on this for many years. She is very insistent that she would like to stop her medication. What should you do?

A patient with lupus presents with rash, arthralgias, and altered mental status. Various symptoms, including stupor and mutism, improve with treatment but higher doses of the drug cause more sedation. How would you proceed?

A quiz on biological approaches to evaluating biomarkers of neurotoxicity in the psychiatric setting.

What is the central difference between conventional child and adolescent psychiatry and integrative child and adolescent psychiatry? Take the quiz and learn more.

Migraine, tension-type, cluster...test your clinical acumen about headaches with these 16 questions.

What does the evidence tell us about the effect of eating disorders on brain function? Take the quiz and learn more.

Are mind-body treatments really effective in treating PTSD? Find out in this quiz.

When treating social phobias, the addition of D-cycloserine has been noted to enhance the response to behavior therapy. How does D-cycloserine promote fear extinction?

What potential clinical and medical effects of lead exposure remain today?

What are the manifestations of methamphetamine toxicity?

“Googling” a patient does not seem much different from the old-fashioned obtaining of collateral information, but the ramifications may be far more than you bargain for.

When did the US Supreme Court confirm the authority of states to intervene in family relationships to protect children? Find out in this quiz.

What are the facts regarding co-occurring depression and ADHD?

The inability or difficulty to experience vaginal penetration is most similar to which DSM-5 disorder? Find out in this quiz.

In a first-ever poll of its kind, we'd like to know about your fears, concerns, and hopes about how this election will affect your profession and your patients.

After leaving active duty, when are veterans at greatest for suicide?

When physicians behave disruptively in the workplace, what is the most likely cause?

What is the clinical approach to pathological narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder?

SSRIs are effective for the treatment of eating disorders, but what treatment is best for which disorder? More in this quiz.

What factors lie at the heart of the patient/physician relationship?

What are the benefits of traditional psychoanalytic concepts and new discoveries of mentalization-based treatment?

After a campus suicide, who is at increased risk of suicide in the near future? The answer might surprise you (or not).

What do you really know about ADHD in young adults? Take this quiz and find out.

A 19-year-old new patient comes to you wanting to discontinue all his childhood psychiatric medications. What is the best next step?

What are some of the most commonly abused drugs among college students?

If money is not the lure for problem gamblers, what is?

A penguin? An igloo? A big snowflake? Weigh in on this Rorschach-type image, just for fun.

What is the most common method of suicide in the US?

Nearly half of children who present to emergency departments with self-harm receive no mental health assessment. What are the essential elements needed to interview children and adolescents in the context of a psychiatric emergency?

The glutamate model of schizophrenia proposes that dysfunction will involve which brain regions?