A 40-year-old male presents to the emergency room with flushing, sedation, and confusion. His vitals are BP 80/55, RR 12/min, and pulse 60/min irregular with pupillary constriction, clouded sensorium, and poor coordination. Which medication is the appropriate antidote in this emergency?

You are treating a patient with major depressive disorder. You decide to prescribe a trial of sertraline. Which of the following should you inform the patient before initiating treatment?

Buprenorphine/naloxone makes diversion and abuse more difficult. What is the mechanism by which it achieves this effect?

A 35-year-old female patient refuses to eat, drink, or make eye contact with the treating nurse practitioner during a recent office visit. This patient is exhibiting which of the following signs of catatonia?

According to the DSM-5, a personality disorder diagnosis needs an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual’s culture in two or more of four areas. What are those four areas?

You are treating a patient with a diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder. In today’s office visit, the patient reports that she is so worried about germs and states that she has only left the house twice in the past month and that she will wash her hands up to 30 times a day. You know that this symptom pattern is:

You are treating a patient with a hoarding disorder and is wanting to start therapy. Although, hoarding can be difficult to treat with therapy, but what type of therapy would you refer her to?

You are treating a patient that quit heroin and pain pills x 5 weeks ago. He reports that he is still having trouble sleeping, always switching from hot to cold, and a strong craving to opiates. He asks you how long these symptoms will persist. The best answer is:

Which of the following brain structures controls circadian rhythm?

You are training a new psychiatric nurse practitioner who asks you what the difference between obsessive-compulsive personality disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. The correct response would be: