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Dermatology

Psychocutaneous Diseases

Built from Dermatology, 5th Edition

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6 sections · 100 slides

  1. 01

    Overview

    • What this topic covers

    1 slide

  2. 02

    Overview

    Two ways to make sense of the many disorders where mind and skin meet

    • What psychodermatology means
    • The dermatologist's role
    • Two ways to classify psychodermatologic disorders
    • Classification of psychodermatologic disorders
    • Four categories of psychodermatologic disorders
    • Four psychopathology patterns behind these disorders
    • Matching medication to the underlying pattern
    • Psychopathologic patterns and psychotropic medications used in dermatology
    • Psychopathologic patterns and psychotropic medications used in dermatology (continued)
    • Psychopathologic patterns and psychotropic medications used in dermatology (continued)
    • Psychopathologic patterns and psychotropic medications used in dermatology (continued)
    • Psychopathologic patterns and psychotropic medications used in dermatology (continued)
    • Psychopathologic patterns and psychotropic medications used in dermatology (continued)
    • Psychopathologic patterns and psychotropic medications used in dermatology (continued)
    • Psychopathologic patterns and psychotropic medications used in dermatology (continued)
    • Psychopathologic patterns and psychotropic medications used in dermatology (continued)

    16 slides

  3. 03

    Delusional Infestation

    A fixed false belief of skin infestation, and how to manage it without confrontation

    • Delusional infestation: definition and key features
    • How the name for this condition evolved
    • Where delusional infestation sits in DSM-5
    • Epidemiology
    • DSM-5 criteria and the nature of the belief
    • How patients present
    • Delusional infestation: excoriations and the matchbox sign
    • When the delusion spreads to others
    • Differential diagnosis
    • Building the therapeutic relationship
    • Choosing an antipsychotic: two options
    • Use of risperidone in dermatology
    • Monitoring a patient on risperidone or another antipsychotic
    • Monitoring guidelines for antipsychotic therapy
    • Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale examination procedure
    • Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale rating form
    • Risperidone: contraindications and drug interactions
    • Comparing side effects across antipsychotics
    • Side effects of pimozide
    • Side effects of second-generation antipsychotic drugs
    • Side effects of second-generation antipsychotic drugs (continued)
    • Why the QT interval matters
    • Effect of psychotropic drugs on the QT interval (QTc)
    • Delusional infestation: course and prognosis

    24 slides

  4. 04

    Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders

    Body-focused repetitive behaviors, body dysmorphic disorder, and skin picking

    • Obsessions and compulsions, defined
    • Body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs)
    • Bite fibroma and habit-tic nail deformity
    • Nail biting and a habit-related knuckle pad
    • Body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs) and associated mucocutaneous findings
    • Body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs) and associated mucocutaneous findings (continued)
    • Body dysmorphic disorder: definition and key features
    • Body dysmorphic disorder: epidemiology
    • Body dysmorphic disorder: clinical features
    • Two treatment subtypes of body dysmorphic disorder
    • Body dysmorphic disorder: treatment
    • Trichotillomania: definition and key features
    • Trichotillomania: epidemiology
    • How patients pull, and what they do with the hair
    • Hairs of varying length in trichotillomania
    • Diagnosis: trichoscopy and simple bedside tests
    • Trichotillomania: histopathology findings
    • Histopathology of trichotillomania: pigmented follicular cast
    • Trichotillomania: differential diagnosis
    • Trichotillomania: treatment
    • Excoriation (skin-picking) disorder: definition and key features
    • Excoriation disorder: epidemiology
    • Excoriation disorder: clinical features
    • Excoriation disorder: picking at a mosquito bite
    • Excoriation disorder affecting the face
    • Excoriation disorder of the back and chest
    • Excoriation disorder: differential diagnosis
    • Excoriation disorder: treatment
    • Acne excoriée: definition and key features
    • Acne excoriée: compulsive picking at acne lesions
    • Acne excoriée: treatment

    31 slides

  5. 05

    Dermatitis Artefacta and Related Conditions

    Factitious skin disease, somatic symptom disorders, and nonsuicidal self-injury

    • Dermatitis artefacta: definition and key features
    • Dermatitis artefacta: epidemiology
    • Dermatitis artefacta: clinical features
    • Dermatitis artefacta: erosions and ulcers with angulated edges
    • Dermatitis artefacta on the leg of a teenage girl
    • Dermatitis artefacta: pathology
    • Histopathology of dermatitis artefacta
    • Dermatitis artefacta: differential diagnosis
    • Dermatitis artefacta: treatment
    • Somatic symptom and illness anxiety disorders
    • Two opposite behavior patterns, same underlying anxiety
    • Somatic symptom and illness anxiety disorders: treatment
    • Nonsuicidal self-injury: definition and key features
    • Nonsuicidal self-injury: epidemiology and clinical features
    • Nonsuicidal self-injury: scars from repeated self-cutting
    • Nonsuicidal self-injury: treatment
    • Excessive tanning behavior

    17 slides

  6. 06

    Secondary Psychodermatologic Disorders

    When distress develops because of a skin disease, not before it

    • Secondary psychodermatologic disorders
    • Adjustment disorder
    • Managing adjustment disorder
    • A practical approach to psychocutaneous disease
    • Key takeaways
    • References
    • References (continued)
    • References (continued)
    • References (continued)
    • References (continued)
    • Dermatology, 5th Edition (2-Volume Set)

    11 slides