PN exam questions
1. Hallucinations. Definition. Pathogenesis. What is their clinical significance?
2. Delusions. Definition. Pathogenesis. What is their clinical significance?
3. Name types of delusions with examples.
4. Describe Capgras syndrome
5. Describe components of mental status examination
6. Delusions of persecution, grandeur, guilt. Definition. Pathogenesis. What is their clinical
correlation?
7. Disturbance of memory. Amnesia: definition, types, clinical correlation.
8. Disturbance of memory. Paramnesia: definition, types, clinical correlation.
9. Mood disorders. Definition, types, difference between mood and affect.
10. Manic syndrome: definition, symptoms, clinical correlation.
11. Depressive syndrome: definition, symptoms, clinical correlation.
12. Hallucinations. Classification. What is their clinical correlation?
13. Differentiate hallucinations and illusions.
14. Motor disorders – catatonia: clinical features.
15. Obsession. Definition. What is their clinical correlation?
16. Overvalued ideas. Definition. What is their clinical correlation?
17. Illusions. Definition. Pathogenesis. What is their clinical significance?
18. What is anxiety? What are its clinical symptoms?
19. Schizophrenia: positive and negative symptoms.
20. Delusions of reference, somatic, nihilistic. Definition. Pathogenesis. What is their clinical
correlation?
21. Hallucinations: definition, classification.
22. Differentiate anxiety and fear.
23. Speech disorder: aphasia, pressure of speech, echolalia. Definition. What is their clinical
correlation?
24. Formal thought disorder: circumstantiality, flight of ideas, perseveration. Definition.
What is their clinical correlation?
25. Dementia: Definition, causes of dementia.
26. Delirium: Definition, causes.
27. Delirium: Clinical features, management.
28. Dementia: definition, clinical features, management.
29. Differentiate Dementia and Delirium.
30. What are the diagnostic criteria for schizoaffective disorder?
31. Two types of schizoaffective disorder?
32. Generalized Anxiety Disorder: definition, causes, clinical features.
33. Panic Disorder: definition, causes, clinical features.
34. Pick’s disease: etiology, clinical features, laboratory tests.
35. Alzheimer’s disease: definition, etiology, types, clinical features.
36. What is Lewy body dementia? Definition, types, clinical features.
37. What is vascular dementia? Definition. Clinical features. Management.
38. What is the difference between bipolar I and bipolar II disorders?
39. Delusional disorder: definition, types, clinical features.
40. Huntington’s disease
41. What the dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia?
42. List the ICD-10 criteria for schizophrenia.
43. How is schizophrenia subtyped in the ICD-10?
44. What are the diagnostic criteria for schizoaffective disorder?
45. Differentiate schizophrenia from schizophreniform disorder
46. List the ICD-10 criteria for major depressive disorder
47. Clinical depression: causes, clinical features, management.
48. Bipolar disorder: causes, types, clinical features.
49. Electroconvulsive therapy.
50. Antidepressants: Mechanism of action, indication, types, side effects.
51. Typical Antipsychotics: Mechanism of action, indication, types, side effects.
52. Atypical Antipsychotics: Mechanism of action, indication, side effects.
53. Depot Antipsychotics: Indication. Advantages. Disadvantages.
54. Mood stabilizers: Mechanism of action, indication, types.
55. Benzodiazepine: Mechanism of action, indication, types, side effects.
56. Carbamazepine: Mechanism of action, indication, contraindication, side effects.
57. Lamotrigine: Mechanism of action, indication, contraindication, side effects.
58. Valproic acid: Mechanism of action, indication, contraindication, side effects.
59. How are the atypical antipsychotics different from traditional antipsychotics?
60. What is lithium toxicity? Describe its features and management.
61. Describe the neuroendocrine side effects of neuroleptics.
62. List the four types of extrapyramidal side effects of antipsychotic medications.
63. What is neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS)?
64. What are the most common side effects of tricyclic antidepressants?
65. What are the known side effects of valproic acid treatment?
66. What are the known side effects of lithium treatment?
67. Monoamine oxidase inhibitors: Mechanism of action, indication, cheese syndrome.
68. Lithium: mechanism of action, indication, contraindication, therapeutic levels.
69. Tricyclic antidepressant (TCA): Mechanism of action, indication, contraindication, side
effects.
70. SSRI: Mechanism of action, indication, contraindication, side effects.
71. SNRI: Mechanism of action, indication, contraindication, side effects.
72. Serotonin syndrome: causes, clinical features.