Board Review Series
Fourth Edition
by Barbara Fadem
Behavioral Science embodies the popular BRS format of succinct outline review of content followed by USMLE-style questions with explanations.
The overall content and questions have been updated to reflect the evolving nature of the USMLE.
Contents:
- The beginning of life : pregnancy through preschool
- School age, adolescence, special issues of development, and adulthood
- Aging, death, and bereavement
- Genetics, anatomy, and biochemistry of behavior
- Biological assessment of patients with psychiatric symptoms
- Psychoanalytic theory
- Learning theory
- Clinical assessment of intelligence, personality, and achievement
- Substance abuse
- Normal sleep and sleep disorders
- Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
- Mood disorders
- Anxiety, somatoform and factitious disorders, and malingering
- Other psychiatric disorders
- Psychiatric disorders in children
- Biologic therapies : psychopharmacology and electroconvulsive therapy
- Psychological therapies
- The family, culture, and illness
- Sexuality
- Aggression and abuse
- The physician-patient relationship
- Psychosomatic medicine
- Legal and ethical issues in medicine
- Health care in the United States
- Epidemiology
- Statistical analyses
Index
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