Psych Path

Psych Path is an interactive study tool for learning how psychiatric diagnoses are differentiated—not merely memorized. Volume I focuses on psychotic and mood disorders. Follow evidence through structured pathways, examine competing explanations, and see how one changed fact can alter the differential. STUDY THROUGH ACTIVE REASONING • Trace Mode: follow diagnostic pathways, ask “why now?” and “why not?”, test alternatives, and examine timeline clues. • Case Lab: work through authored clinical simulations using history, collateral information, evidence boards, and changing facts. • Quiz Lab: test recognition and reasoning, review feedback, and identify weak spots. • Conditions: review diagnostic concepts, criteria, and commonly confused presentations. • Memory Aids: practice high-yield psychiatric mnemonics and mental-status examination structure. • Brain Atlas and Mechanism Explorer: connect symptoms and medications with relevant circuits and neurotransmitter systems. • PharmLens: study psychopharmacology through mechanism and clinical context. • AMPD: explore the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders. Psych Path is designed for students, clinicians refreshing their knowledge, and serious learners who want to understand the reasoning beneath psychiatric classification. PRIVACY AND BOUNDARIES Study progress and settings remain on your device. Psych Path does not provide a place to enter free-text patient or health information. Personal study only—not a diagnostic service. Psych Path does not diagnose individuals, provide patient-specific treatment recommendations, or offer prescribing guidance. Its cases are educational simulations and are not substitutes for professional education, supervision, medical judgment, or care.