You are a treating a patient with a diagnosis of major depression disorder, who states that she is 6 weeks pregnant, which antidepressant has an increased risk of cardiac defects, including atrial and ventricular septal defects?

You are completing an initial assessment on a patient who complaints of recurrent periods of prolonged sleep with intervening periods of normal sleep and alert waking. Based on this information, what is the most likely diagnosis?

A patient describes excessive anxiety in social situations and in intimate relationships. Although she would like to have more friends, she avoids others because of fears of being ridiculed, criticized, rejected, or humiliated. What is the most likely personality disorder diagnosis for this patient?

Weight gain is a common and problematic side effect of mood stabilizers. Which of the following mood stabilizers is associated with the greatest degree of weight gain?

Lithium has numerous side effects, most of which can be managed by either adding a medication to reduce the side effect or changing how the lithium itself is administered. Which of the following lithium side effects/management tactic pairings is correct?

The benzodiazepines’ anxiolytic subclasses are divided according to their chemical structures. What does this affect?

You are treating a 32-year-old software engineer who presents with complaints of anxiety at work. He feels uncomfortable eating lunch with everyone else at business meetings because he feels as though everyone can hear him chew and worries constantly that he has food on his face or stuck in his teeth. The patient is scared to speak up in meetings because he does not know how others will respond to what he says and is embarrassed. He is even afraid to use the bathroom at work for fear that others will be in the room with him at the same time. What drug therapy is first-line for his condition?

Whenever 34-year-old Margaret has to give a presentation in front of a group, she becomes very nervous. She starts sweating profusely, her legs feel like “spaghetti,” and she often has immense trouble remembering what she wanted to say. The patient states that these events are infrequent. She is otherwise without anxiety symptoms and does not want to take something that would make her feel “loopy.” Vital signs are within normal limits. Medical history is significant for past alcohol abuse, from which she has been abstaining for 7 years. What is the most appropriate prescription?

Which of the following is the most widely used self-reporting inventory of depression?

Melissa has been feeling exhausted and lacking energy for the past month since starting as a medical intern at the county hospital. She also experiences hand tremors and disturbed sleep patterns, which she attributes to her excessive caffeine intake. Three days ago, she called her sister after feeling guilty about not being able to help their mom when she needed them most. Melissa was crying and sounded inconsolable. Her sister took her to a doctor, who diagnosed Melissa with mild generalized anxiety disorder. Which of the following drugs is FDA-approved for her condition?