MGP1013

Organic psychiatry

(MED)

Dr J Lloyd

4 points + off campus distributed learning + Approximately 10 hours per week

Synopsis: This unit focuses on those psychiatric disorders caused by known brain dysfunction or damage as distinct from those that may be due to psychosocial factors or unestablished organic factors. In particular the following areas are covered: delirium, the dementias, sympotomatic psychiatric disorders, focal brain syndromes, medical/neurological disease with associated psychiatric disorder and psychiatric illness in individuals with intellectual disability.

Assessment: Journal + Case report