A 30-year-old woman presents to your office with the chief complaint of urinating more frequently. Over the last several years she has noticed a weight gain of 40 lbs. She has tried numerous diets. The patient’s only other pertinent history is that she was told to watch her diet during pregnancy because of excessive weight […]

A 32-year-old nurse presents to your office with a complaint of intermittent episodes of pain, stiffness, and swelling in both hands and wrists for approximately 1 year. The episodes last for several weeks and then resolve. More recently, she noticed similar symptoms in her knees and ankles. Joint pain and stiffness are making it harder […]

Weekly written assignments are to be written in a formal, academic, expository (research) manner. There is no need for an abstract in the weekly written assignments. The weekly written assignments should be written in APA format with appropriate credible, academic, peer reviewed references/citations. The written assignment topic can be of your choosing as long as […]

Group 1. (Class members 1-7) prevailing hypothesis for schizophrenia implicates the neurotransmitter dopamine as playing a key role in the development of the disease. Dopamine acts on several areas of the brain with differing effects. Please outline the key dopamine pathways and the implications of antipsychotic use on each pathway.   Group 2. (Class members […]

Bipolar and Related Disorders and Depressive Disorders Please refer to the class list tab to see which group you belong in. It is simply a numerical standing based alphabetically. Count your standing from the top down. Class members 1-7 are in Group 1, 8-14 are in Group 2, and 15-20+  are Group 3. This is […]

A 65-year-old man comes to your office for the evaluation of lower back pain. For the past 3 days, he has had a sharp, burning pain in his left lower back, which would radiate to his flank and, sometimes, all the way around to his abdomen. The pain comes and goes, feels like an “electric […]

A 48-year-old white man presents with unremitting right flank pain. He denies dysuria or fever. He does report significant nausea without vomiting. He has never experienced anything like this before.   What is the probable diagnosis?   What are other possible diagnoses?   At this stage of the case study, what diagnostic studies and basic […]

A 59-year-old woman comes into the doctor’s office for a health maintenance examination. The breasts are nontender and without masses. Mammography revealed a small cluster of calcifications.   What is the probable diagnosis?   What are other possible diagnoses?   At this stage of the case study, what diagnostic studies and basic treatments are most […]

A 58-year-old African-American woman presents complaining of worsening shortness of breath and palpitations for about 1 week. She reports feeling “dizzy” on and off for the past few months; the dizziness is associated with weakness that has been worsening for the past month. She has been feeling “too tired” to even walk to her backyard […]

A 42-year-old Hispanic woman presents to the primary care office complaining of 24 hours of severe, steady epigastric abdominal pain, radiating to her back, with several episodes of nausea and vomiting. She has experienced similar painful episodes in the past, usually in the evening following heavy meals, but the episodes always resolved spontaneously within an […]