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1. Neural Sciences -- 2. Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology -- 3. Contributions of the Psychosocial Sciences to Human Behavior -- 4. Clinical Neuropsychological Testing -- 5. Theories of Personality and Psychopathology -- 6. The Patient-Doctor Relationship and the Psychiatric Interview -- 7. Clinical Examination of the Psychiatric Patient -- 8. Signs and Symptoms in Psychiatry -- 9. Classification in Psychiatry and Psychiatric Rating Scales -- 10. Delirium, Dementia, and Amnestic and Other Cognitive Disorders and Mental Disorders Due to a General Medical Condition -- 11. Neuropsychiatry Aspects of HIV Infection and AIDS -- 12. Substance-Related Disorders -- 13. Schizophrenia -- 14. Other Psychotic Disorders -- 15. Mood Disorders -- 16. Anxiety Disorders -- 17. Somatoform Disorders -- 18. Factitious Disorders -- 19. Dissociative Disorders -- 20. Human Sexuality -- 21. Gender Identity Disorders -- 22. Eating Disorders -- 23. Normal Sleep and Sleep Disorders. Note continued: 24. Impulse-Control Disorder Not Elsewhere Classified -- 25. Adjustment Disorders -- 26. Personality Disorders -- 27. Psychosomatic Medicine and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry -- 28. Nonconventional Approaches in Mental Health Care -- 29. Psychiatry and Reproductive Medicine -- 30. Relational Problems -- 31. Problems Related to Abuse or Neglect -- 32. Additional Conditions That May Be a Focus of Clinical Attention -- 33. Emergency Psychiatric Medicine -- 34. Psychotherapies -- 35. Biological Therapies -- 36. Child Psychiatry: Assessment, Examination, and Psychological Testing -- 37. Mental Retardation -- 38. Learning Disorders -- 39. Motor Skills Disorder: Developmental Coordination Disorder -- 40. Communication Disorders -- 41. Pervasive Developmental Disorders -- 42. Attention-Deficit Disorders -- 43. Disruptive Behavior Disorders -- 44. Feeding and Eating Disorders of Infancy or Early Childhood -- 45. Tic Disorders -- 46. Elimination Disorders. Note continued: 47. Other Disorders of Infancy, Childhood, or Adolescence -- 48. Mood Disorders and Suicide in Children and Adolescents -- 49. Anxiety Disorders of Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence -- 50. Early-Onset Schizophrenia -- 51. Adolescent Substance Abuse -- 52. Child Psychiatry: Additional Conditions That May Be a Focus of Clinical Attention -- 53. Psychiatric Treatment of Children and Adolescents -- 54. Forensic Issues in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry -- 55. Geriatric Psychiatry -- 56. End-of-Life Care and Palliative Medicine -- 57. Forensic Psychiatry -- 58. Ethics in Psychiatry.