When Psychological Problems Mask Medical Disorders

I. A Review of Symptoms

The Need for Evaluation

Observing the Mental Status

Appearance and Behavior

Mood (Affect)

Speech

Content of Thought

Intellectual Resources

Insight and Judgment

Personality Change

Diagnostic Principles

II. 66 Disorders

Adrenal Insufficiency

AIDS

Altitude Sickness

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Antidiuretic Hormone, Inappropriate Secretion

Brain Abscess

Brain Tumor

Cancer

Carcinoid Syndrome

Cardiac Arrhythmias

Celiac Disease

Cerebrovascular Accident (Stroke)

Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease

Congestive Heart Failure

Cryptococcosis

Cushing's Syndrome

Diabetes Mellitus

Epilepsy

Fibromyalgia

Heavy-Metal Toxicity

Herpes Encephalitis

Homocystinuria

Huntington's Disease

Hyperparathyroidism

Hypertensive Encephalopathy

Hyperthyroidism

Hypoparathyroidism

Hypothyroidism

Kidney Failure

Klinefelter's Syndrome

Liver Failure

Lyme Disease

Ménière's Syndrome

Menopause

Metachromatic Leukodystrophy

Migraine

Mitral Valve Prolapse

Multiple Sclerosis

Myasthenia Gravis

Neurocutaneous Disorders

Normal-Pressure Hydrocephalus

Parasitism

Parkinson's Disease

Pellagra

Pernicious Anemia

Pheochromocytoma

Pneumonia

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Porphyria

Postoperative Delirium

Premenstrual Syndrome

Prion Disease

Progressive Supranuclear Palsy

Protein Energy Malnutrition

Pulmonary Thromboembolism

Rheumatoid Arthritis

Sensory Deficit

Sickle-Cell Disease

Sleep Apnea

Substance Intoxication and Withdrawal

Syphilis

Systemic Infection

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Thiamine Deficiency

Traumatic Brain Injury

Wilson's Disease

III. Symptom Summaries