A 24-year-old male initially presents with acute auditory hallucinations and is treated with medication. Four days later he arrives at your office for evaluation. You observe that he is neatly dressed, avoids eye contact, and give very short answers to your initial questions. Which of the following questions would be most beneficial for determining his degree of negative symptoms? 

What is the strongest basis for determining the level of severity of a patient’s intellectual disability (intellectual developmental disorder)?

Risk factors for dementia include:

In which disorder or syndrome does deterioration in communications skills, motor behavior, and social functioning starts at about 1 year of age?

The most characteristics features of Lewy bodies dementia include

The most accurate statement regarding pain disorder is

You are reviewing several cases of patients diagnosed with dissociative and somatic symptoms disorders. Which somatic treatment strategy is most useful for patients with dissociative identity disorder?

Which of the following would a prudent psychiatric provider managing an acute exacerbation of severe irritability and behavior change in an 11-year-old nonverbal girl with severe intellectual disability do first?

A 75-year-old man is hospitalized for cellulitis in his leg. Psychiatry is consulted because the man’s daughter is worried that her father seems “a little off.” On examination, the patient is well-appearing, alert, and attentive, with a euthymic reactive affect. He denies any complaints aside from leg pain. Although he is oriented to person, place, and month and year, he is unable to remember the exact date. He is able to recall only two out of three words on a short-term memory test. The patient’s daughter notes that although her father lives independently, he has “slowed down a little” over the past few months and takes “a long time” to balance his checkbook, which surprises her because he worked as an accountant until a year ago. What is the most likely diagnosis?

Which of the following disease is part of the differential diagnosis for conversion disorder?