Level 1: Mood Change – Chief Complaint: Expert Panel DDX

How does your differential compare with the experts?

What questions will comprise your initial history?

Experts’ DDX:

1. Mood disorders
   1. Depression
2. Neurocognitive disorders
   1. Dementia
   2. Delirium
3. Neurologic disorders
   1. Stroke
   2. Head injury/hematoma/fall
   3. Space-occupying lesion
   4. Seizure
   5. Multiple sclerosis (MS)
   6. Parkinson’s
4. Endocrine
   1. Hyperthyroid
   2. Hypothyroid
   3. Cushing’s disease
   4. Diabetes mellitus
5. Other
   1. Drug-related
   2. Renal failure
   3. Anemia (B12, folate, thiamine)
   4. Heavy metal exposure