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Psychiatry questions for NEET PG
449 Psychiatry questions in the Recallab bank, each with a verified answer, every option explained and a reference to a current edition. 3 of them are published in full — the rest are in the app.
Questions
- A 46-year-old man who drinks about half a bottle of spirits daily is admitted after a fracture. On the third day of admission he becomes disoriented and agitated, with a coarse tremor, drenching…
- On the fourth day after an uncomplicated delivery, a 24-year-old woman is tearful and irritable and says she feels overwhelmed. She sleeps and eats normally, cares for and enjoys her baby, has no…
- An 80-year-old man is drowsy and disoriented two days after hip surgery. He is lucid in the morning and agitated by evening, cannot sustain attention long enough to recite the months backwards, and…
- Premature ejaculation is classified as a disorder of which phase of the sexual response cycle?
- A 25-year-old man is brought agitated and frightened, saying insects are crawling under his skin. Pupils are dilated, pulse 132, blood pressure 190/110 mmHg and temperature 38.4 degrees Celsius. He…
- A 60-year-old man has had low mood, early morning waking, loss of appetite and 9 kg weight loss since his wife died eight months ago. For the past three weeks he has insisted that his intestines have…
- A couple have a child with Down syndrome. Karyotyping of the child shows 46 chromosomes with a translocation between chromosomes 14 and 21. What is the most important next step?
- A 24-year-old woman has had a decade of intense, rapidly shifting relationships, recurrent self-cutting when she fears abandonment, chronic feelings of emptiness, and brief episodes of paranoid…
- Two days after surviving a building collapse, a 29-year-old man has vivid intrusive images of the event, feels detached and unreal, avoids talking about it and cannot sleep. He is distressed and has…
- Which of the following is NOT one of the mechanisms of dream work described by Freud?
- A 28-year-old man with a five-year history of injecting heroin wants to stop. He is stable, has no intoxication, and last used 18 hours ago with early withdrawal signs. Which drug is appropriate for…
- A man repeatedly and deliberately exposes his genitals to unsuspecting strangers in a park for sexual arousal. Which paraphilia is this, and how does it differ from voyeurism and frotteurism?
- During therapy a patient begins reacting to the therapist as though he were her critical father, while the therapist finds himself unusually protective towards her. What are these two phenomena…
- A 55-year-old man is convinced over two years that his neighbour is stealing from him. He works, cares for his family, and has no hallucinations, thought disorder or negative symptoms. What is the…
- In which stage of sleep does sleepwalking occur, what happens to awareness and memory, and how does this differ from a nightmare?