S TA H L’ S S E L F - A S S E S S M E N T E X A M I N AT I O N I N P S Y C H I AT R Y Multiple Choice Questions for Clinicians Second Edition

Contents Introduction/Preface CME information 1. Basic neuroscience 2. Psychosis and schizophrenia and antipsychotics 3. Unipolar depression and antidepressants 4. Bipolar disorder and mood stabilizers 5. Anxiety disorders and anxiolytics 6. Chronic pain and its treatment 7. Disorders of sleep and wakefulness and their treatment 8. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and its treatment 9. Dementia and cognitive function and its treatment 10. Substance use and impulsive compulsive disorders and their treatment CME: posttest and certificate Index 6 Introduction/Preface As many readers know, Essential Psychopharmacology started in 1996 as a textbook (currently in its fourth edition) on how psychotropic drugs work and then expanded to a companion Prescriber’s Guide in 2005 (currently in its fifth edition) on how to prescribe psychotropic drugs. In 2008, a website was added () with both of these books available online in combination with several more, including an Illustrated series of several books covering specialty topics in psychopharmacology. In 2011 a case book was added, called Case Studies: Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology that shows how to apply the concepts presented in these previous books to real patients in a clinical practice setting. Now comes a comprehensive set of questions and answers that we call Stahl’s Self-Assessment Examination in Psychiatry: Multiple Choice Questions for Clinicians, designed to be integrated into the suite of our mental health/psychopharmacology books and products in the manner that I will explain here.