Distinguish delirium, neurocognitive disorders, mood illness, psychosis, and medication harm; practise safer treatment, diagnostic testing, consent, and coordinated care in older adults. These are independent learning materials, not official exam questions or a pass prediction.
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American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc. (ABPN) · ABPN Geriatric Psychiatry Certification Content Specifications, 15 pages, marked Posted: March 2026; opened through the current initial-certification examination page on 2026-10-09. A separate effective date was not stated. The workbook label American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology - Subspecialty in Geriatric Psychiatry maps to this initial subspecialty certification examination; the assigned canonical slug is preserved.
This original 20-question sample covers selected topics across the outline. It does not reproduce official exam questions or cover every tested topic.
- ABPN — Geriatric Psychiatry: Initial Certification
- Geriatric Psychiatry Certification Content Specifications
- Geriatric Psychiatry Certification Format and Scoring
- MedlinePlus — Delirium
- Diagnosis and Management of Dementia with Lewy Bodies: Fourth Consensus Report
- American Geriatrics Society 2023 Updated AGS Beers Criteria
- The ASAM Clinical Practice Guideline on Alcohol Withdrawal Management
- ASAM — Alcohol Withdrawal Management Guideline
- Joint Clinical Practice Guideline on Benzodiazepine Tapering, 2025
- DailyMed — Prednisone Delayed-Release Tablets Prescribing Information
- American Psychiatric Association — Electroconvulsive Therapy
- NIMH — Adult Outpatient Brief Suicide Safety Assessment Guide
- DailyMed — Lithium Carbonate Capsules Prescribing Information
- NIMH — Generalized Anxiety Disorder: What You Need to Know
- American Psychiatric Association — Hoarding Disorder
- American Psychiatric Association — Prolonged Grief Disorder
- AHRQ — Tool: Teach-Back
- American Psychiatric Association — Integrated Behavioral Healthcare
- MedlinePlus — Parkinson's Disease
- AMA Code of Medical Ethics — Informed Consent
- American Psychiatric Association — Depression
- American Psychiatric Association — Somatic Symptom Disorder
- Cochrane Handbook — Chapter 15: Interpreting Results and Drawing Conclusions
- American Psychiatric Association — DSM-5-TR Update, September 2024, with Previous Updates
- Multimodal MRI markers of nigrostriatal pathology in Parkinson's disease (U01) | PDBP
- Psychiatry.org - What is Hoarding Disorder?
- Psychiatry.org - What Is Depression?
- mdd.pdf
- APA_DSM-5-Somatic-Symptom-Disorder.pdf
- Psychiatry.org - APA Offers Tips for Understanding Prolonged Grief Disorder
- Resource-Document-2019-Decisional-Capacity-Determinations-in-Consultation-Liaison-Psychiatry.pdf
- Psychiatry.org - What Are Bipolar Disorders?
- Psychiatry.org - What is Schizophrenia?
- sensitivity-of-revised-diagnostic-criteria-for-the.pdf
- Advance Directives | AMA Code of Medical Ethics
- These highlights do not include all the information needed to use CLOZAPINE TABLETS safely and effectively. See full prescribing information for CLOZAPINE TABLETS. CLOZAPINE tablets, for oral use Initial U.S. Approval: 1989
- Naltrexone Hydrochloride Tablets, USP Opioid Antagonist
- DailyMed - ACAMPROSATE CALCIUM tablet, delayed release
- Disulfiram Tablets, USP
- DailyMed - QUETIAPINE tablet, film coated
- DailyMed - LAMICTAL- lamotrigine tablet LAMICTAL- lamotrigine tablet, for suspension LAMICTAL ODT- lamotrigine tablet, orally disintegrating LAMICTAL- lamotrigine kit
Certification Examination in Geriatric Psychiatry
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A 75-year-old has bradykinesia, rigidity, and a resting tremor. Loss of which neuronal population most directly explains the characteristic motor syndrome of Parkinson disease?
Certification Examination in Geriatric Psychiatry
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06. Bipolar and related disorders — general psychopharmacology: pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics
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