Diploma in Psychiatry: Practice Questions and Answers Part One






  • Alzheimer’s disease is genetically not associated with which of the following illness? Choose three. - Alcohol Addiction, Delirium, Sleep Disorder
  • For a brain electrical activity to be recorded through the skull, there must be a strong signal. Choose one. Strong
  • True or false. EEG is a measure of cerebral electrical activity? True
  • True or false. Psychiatry follows a cause-driven classification. False
  • A stimulus in one modality triggering a non-existent stimulus in other modality is known as? Choose one. Reflex Hallucination
  • Which of the following must be done in order to complete a mental status examination? Choose three. Ask, Listen, Observe
  • In Schizophrenia, psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech and grossly disorganized or catatonic behaviours are known as? Choose one.Positive Symptoms
  • Monoaminergic System regulates which of the following? Choose one. Mood, Hunger, Sleep, Arousal.
  • Antipsychotic drugs such as the phenothiazines help to treat Schizophrenia by? Choose one. Blocking the brain's dopamine receptor sites and thus reducing dopamine activity.
  • True or false. Neurons are the units which form the neural network. True
  • Damage to white matter in the brain can not be detected using which of the following? Choose three. Event Related Potential, Positron Emission Tomography, Electroencephalogram
  • True or false. Individual neuronal activity does not directly contribute to the EEG recordings of brain activities. True.
  • Dementia in Pick’s disease is majorly related to the functions of which cerebral lobe? Choose one. Frontal.
  • True or false. MRI technique gives important information about metabolic activity in the brain. False.
  • True or false. The brain is a composite one single structure. False.
  • The "how" and the "why" of human behavior can be studied by which of these? Choose one. Psychology.
  • Premorbid personality does not include which of the following? Choose one. Attitude towards treatment.
Join Alison and Learn for Free
  • Psychodynamic is a Modern version of psychoanalysis. Fill in the blank. Modern
  • Behaviorism is the science of behavior that focuses on observable behavior only. Fill in the blank. Behaviorism
  • Which of the following are psychological tests? Choose three. Intelligence Test, Personality Test, Projective Test.
  • The nervous system is an intermediary between the object and your consciousness. Fill in the blank. Nervous.
  • The process of memory consolidation in the brain follows which pathway? Choose one. Encoding - Interference - Reverberation - Amplification - Storage.
  • The school of psychology which is being revived by the recent neurobiological and neurophysiological findings related to behaviour is? Choose one Psychoanalysis.
  • In an open source field, a dipole is formed between the current sources and sinks. Fill in the blank. Dipole
  • True or false. An EEG waveform deflects a summation of PSPs from thousands or even millions of cortical neurons. False
  • Which of the following psychologists proposed the concept of Phrenology? Choose one. Franz Josef Gall
  • Which of the following bodies designed a questionnaire to help in the examination of mental health? Choose one. NIMHANS
  • The brain cells which are the principal current generators for EEG are called? Choose one. Pyramidal Neurons
  • True or false. International Classification of Diseases and Disorders 10th edition is a multiaxial system of classification. False
  • Which of the following are the roles of psychology? Choose three. Clinical, Social, Cognitive

No comments

Powered by Blogger.