Tourette’s vs. persistent motor or vocal tic disorder vs. provisional tic disorder
- Tourettes: both motor & vocal tics 1+ years
- Persistent motor or vocal tic: vocal OR tic 1+ years
- Provisional tic disorder: motor/vocal/both LESS than 1 year
Developmental coordination disorder vs. stereotypic movement disorder
DCD: poor motor skills, unbalanced
SMD: pointless, repeated movements -head banging, swaying (no explanation)
Language disorder vs.
speech sound disorder vs.
Childhood onset fluency disorder vs.
Social (pragmatic) communication disorder
LD: small vocab, reduced ability forming sentences, beginning in childhood
SSD: problems producing sounds of speech
CFD: stuttering
SCD: difficulty with using language for social reasons, adapting communication to fit context, following rules of conversation, understanding metaphors
Specific learning disorder
-reading
vs.
-math
problems with reading, writing, math
- reading (dyslexia): slow, hard to grasp meaning, errors in grammar
- math (dyscalculia): math fact, calculation, reasoning difficulty
Intellectual disability vs. Borderline intellectual disability Autism Global developmental delay Unspecified ID
ID: low intelligence, need help coping with life
BID: IQ 71-84 & don’t having coping problems like ID
Autism: impaired social interactions and communication
GDD: under age 5, child behind developmentally, but cant assess degree
U.ID: child 5+ but cant assess degree maybe due to medical or physical impairment
Schizophrenia vs. Schizophreniform Schizoaffective Brief psychotic disorder delusional disorder
- Schizophrenia: 2/5 symptoms: delusions or hallucinations & disorganized speech, abnormal behavior or negative symptoms for 6+ months
- Schizophreniform: schizophrenia for 1-6 months then recovers fully
- Schizoaffective: basic schizophrenia w/ mania & depression; 1+ months
- Brief psychotic disorder: up to 1 month of psychosis then recovers
- Delusional disorder: 1+ months, only delusional symptoms
Major depressive episode vs.
Manic episode
Hypomanic episode
MD: 2+ weeks feeling depressed w/ problems eating, sleeping, low energy
Manic: 1+ week elated feeling, may be hospitalized
Hypomanic: 4+ days, like manic but briefer & less severe; no hospitalization
Major depressive disorder vs.
Persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia)
MDD: no manic or hypomanic episodes, with 1+ major depressive episodes
PDD: no high; longer than typical major depression disorder, but not as severe
Biopolar I vs. Bipolar II vs. cyclothymic disorder
BI: at least one manic episode, 1+ major depressive episodes
BII: at least one hypomanic episode, plus at least one major depressive episode (less severe then BI)
CD: repeated mood swings, but not severe enough to be major depressive or manic episodes
with rapid cycling vs
cyclothymic disorder
seasonal disorder
RC: within 1 year, 4+ episodes of either major depressive, manic or hypomanic episodes
CD: repeated mood swings, but not severe enough to be major depressive or manic episodes
Seasonal: ill during certain times of the year (fall or winter)
Generalized anxiety disorder VS. Separation anxiety disorder Social anxiety disorder Specific phobia Agoraphobia Panic disorder Avoidant personality disorder
- GAD: anxious most of the time; worry about a lot of things
- Separation AD: anxious when separated from parent/home
- Social AD: feel too anxious to speak, write, or eat in public
- Specific Phobia: fear specific object or situation
- Agoraphobia: fear of situations or places where they might have trouble obtaining help
- Panic disorder: repeated panic attacks, worry about more and intense fear and dread
- APD: ppl so easily wounded by criticism they avoid people
Trichotillomania vs. Excoriation
hair pulling vs. skin picking disorder
obsessions vs compulsions
repetitive thoughts/beliefs vs. actions
Reactive attachment disorder vs
Disinhibited social engagement disorder
RAD: child repeatedly doesn’t seek comfort with caregiver
DSED: child fails to show normal reticence (shyness/reserve) with strangers
PTSD vs.
Acute Stress disorder
Adjustment disorder
- PTSD: repeatedly reliving severely traumatic event
- Acute Stress disorder: like PTSD but lasts a month or less
- Adjustment disorder: following a stressor, symptoms occur but disappear when the stressor has subsided
Dissociative amnesia vs.
Dissociative Identity disorder
Depersonalization/derealization disorder
Borderline personality disorder
- DA: patient can’t remember personal info due to stressor
- DID: multipule personalities
- DDD: episodes of detachment, like they are observing their own behavior from outside: no actual memory loss
- BPD: when severely stressed, episodes of dissociation or depersonalization occur
Somatic symptom disorder vs. Malingering Conversion disorder Illness anxiety disorder Factitious disorder
- SSD: patients symptoms cannot be explained medically and can forget aspects of personal history
- M: patients fake symptoms of memory loss to obtain something (money, avoid punishment, drugs)
- CD: patients complain of isolated sensory or motor symptoms that have no physical cause (blindness, mutism, stuttering later in life)
- IAD: (hypocondriasis) healthy ppl have unfounded fear of a serious disease
- FD: on self or others; fake being sick
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DSM Notes2
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Neurodevelopmental Disorders45
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Schizophrenia Spectrum & Other Psychotic Disorders20
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Symptoms of Psychosis29
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Mood Disorders36
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Anxiety Disorders31
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Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders9
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Dissociative Disorders13
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Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders9
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Feeding and Eating Disorders7
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Compare Disorders17
