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This section includes 657 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Testing Subject knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
Donepezil is used in treatment of - |
| A. | Alzheimer's disease |
| B. | Depression |
| C. | Schizophrenia |
| D. | Anxiety disorder |
| Answer» B. Depression | |
| 2. |
A patient comes in stupor condition patient's parents give history of being continually sad and sucidal attempts not eating and sleeping most of the time.The treatment is - |
| A. | Antipsychotic |
| B. | Sedatives |
| C. | ECT |
| D. | Antidepresent |
| Answer» D. Antidepresent | |
| 3. |
A 40 old female male is admitted with complaints of abdominal pain and headache.General physical examination revealed six scars on the abdomen from surgeries.He seems to maintain a sick role and seeks attention from the nurse.He demands multiple diagnostic tests including a liver biopsy.The treating term failed to diagnose any major physical illness in the patient.His mental status examination did not reveal any major psychopathology.One of treatment staff recognized him to have appeared in several other hospital with abdominal pain and some vague complaints.He is most likely suffering from - |
| A. | Somatisation disorder |
| B. | Malingering |
| C. | Schizophrenia |
| D. | Factitious disorder |
| Answer» E. | |
| 4. |
One of the following is not a feature of dementia - |
| A. | Failing memory |
| B. | Impaired judgment |
| C. | Clouding of consciousness |
| D. | Alterations is mood and affect |
| Answer» D. Alterations is mood and affect | |
| 5. |
Memory disturbance of ECT recovers in - |
| A. | Few months to few years |
| B. | Permanent |
| C. | Few weeks to few months |
| D. | Few days to few weeks |
| Answer» D. Few days to few weeks | |
| 6. |
Post traumatic stress syndrome is due to: |
| A. | Minor stress |
| B. | Head injury |
| C. | Vascular accidents |
| D. | Major life threatning events |
| Answer» E. | |
| 7. |
Drug of choice for OCD - |
| A. | Imipramine |
| B. | Fluoxetine |
| C. | Haloperidol |
| D. | Diazepam |
| Answer» C. Haloperidol | |
| 8. |
Which of the following phenomenon is closely associated with slow wave sleep - |
| A. | Irregular heart rate |
| B. | Sleep walking |
| C. | Dreaming |
| D. | Atonia |
| Answer» C. Dreaming | |
| 9. |
20 yrs old female with complaints of nausea, vomiting and pain in the leg. Her physical examination and lab investigations are normal.What would be the most probable diagnosis ? |
| A. | Conversion disorder |
| B. | Generalized anxiety disorder |
| C. | Somatisation disorder |
| D. | Somatoform pain dis disorder |
| Answer» E. | |
| 10. |
In OCD treatment is based on - |
| A. | NA receptor receptor |
| B. | Glutamine receptor |
| C. | Serotonergic receptor |
| D. | Dopaminergic receptor |
| Answer» D. Dopaminergic receptor | |
| 11. |
All are true about Delirium tremens except - |
| A. | Severe depression |
| B. | Hallucination |
| C. | Extreme anxiety |
| D. | Delusion |
| Answer» B. Hallucination | |
| 12. |
Haloperidol toxicity can causes ? |
| A. | Weight loss |
| B. | Short QT |
| C. | Akathasia |
| D. | Diarrhoea |
| Answer» D. Diarrhoea | |
| 13. |
All of the following are impulse control disorders except: |
| A. | Kleptomania |
| B. | Capgras syndrome |
| C. | Pyromania |
| D. | Trichotillomania |
| Answer» C. Pyromania | |
| 14. |
18 years old hears voices discussing him in third person has - |
| A. | Schizophrenia |
| B. | Depression |
| C. | Mania |
| D. | Phobia |
| Answer» B. Depression | |
| 15. |
All are mechanism of defence except - |
| A. | Anticipation |
| B. | Transference |
| C. | Repression |
| D. | Projection |
| Answer» C. Repression | |
| 16. |
Features of schizophrenia are all except: |
| A. | Suicidal attempts |
| B. | Disorganized speech |
| C. | Catatonia |
| D. | Blunted affect |
| Answer» B. Disorganized speech | |
| 17. |
A 30-year-old female complains of fatigue persistent dull aching pain and is preoccupied with it.All could be possibilities Except: |
| A. | Endocrinopathy |
| B. | Occult CA |
| C. | Panic Disorder |
| D. | Depression |
| Answer» D. Depression | |
| 18. |
Symptomatic treatment is not required well in withdrawal syndrome caused by: |
| A. | Alcohol |
| B. | Coccaine |
| C. | Cannabis |
| D. | Morphine |
| Answer» D. Morphine | |
| 19. |
Endogenous Depression is characterized by A/E - |
| A. | Guilt psychosis |
| B. | Loss of self esteem |
| C. | Paranoid feeling |
| D. | Third person hallucination |
| Answer» E. | |
| 20. |
Defect of conation is typically seen in - |
| A. | Hebephrenic schizophrenia |
| B. | Simple schizophrenia |
| C. | Paranoid schizophrenia |
| D. | Catatonic schizophrenia |
| Answer» E. | |
| 21. |
A 60 year old man is brought to a psychiatrist with a 10 year history, that the suspects his neighbours and he feels that whenever he passes by they sneeze and plan against behind his back.He feels that his wife has been replaced by a double and call police for help.He is quite well groomed alert, occasionaly consumes alcohol, likely diagnosis is - |
| A. | Paranoid schizophrenia |
| B. | Paranoid personality |
| C. | Conversion disorder |
| D. | Alcohol withdrawl |
| Answer» B. Paranoid personality | |
| 22. |
One of the important defense mechanisms is |
| A. | Alienation |
| B. | Confabulation |
| C. | Repression |
| D. | Suppression |
| Answer» D. Suppression | |
| 23. |
True about social phobia is - |
| A. | Irrational fear of situation |
| B. | Fear of closed spaces |
| C. | Irrational fear of specified objects |
| D. | Irrational fear of activities |
| Answer» E. | |
| 24. |
Drug of choice for schizophrenic patient with poor oral absorption is ? |
| A. | Haloperidol |
| B. | Fluphenazine |
| C. | Clozapine |
| D. | Olanzapine |
| Answer» D. Olanzapine | |
| 25. |
A 40 year old man presents to casualty with history of regular and heavy use of alcohol for ten years and morning drinking for one year.The last alcohol intake was three days back.There is no history of head injury or seizures.On examination,there is no icterus,sign of hepatic encephalopathy or focal neurological sign.The patient had coarse tremors,visual hallucinations and had disorientation to time.Which of the following is the best medicine to be prescribed for such a patient? |
| A. | Imipramine |
| B. | Naltrexone |
| C. | Diazepam |
| D. | Haloperidol |
| Answer» D. Haloperidol | |
| 26. |
A 19 year old boy suffering from chronic schizophrenia is put on haloperidol in the dose of 20 mg/day.A week after the initiation of medication the patient shows be restlessness, fidgety, irritability and can not sit still at one place.The most appropriate treatment strategy is - |
| A. | Adding another antipsychotic drug |
| B. | Adding of betablocker |
| C. | Increase in the dose of the haloperidol |
| D. | Addition of anticholinergic drug |
| Answer» C. Increase in the dose of the haloperidol | |
| 27. |
The following is not an atypical antipsychotic - |
| A. | Olanzapine |
| B. | Resperidone |
| C. | Thioridazine |
| D. | Clozapine |
| Answer» D. Clozapine | |
| 28. |
The drug which is used for long term maintenance in opioid addiction - |
| A. | Butarphenol |
| B. | Methadone |
| C. | Naloxone |
| D. | Nalorphine |
| Answer» C. Naloxone | |
| 29. |
Child not eating vegetables. His mother starts giving a chocolate each time he finishes vegetables in the diet. the condition is |
| A. | Social training |
| B. | Negative reinforcement |
| C. | Operant conditioning |
| D. | Classical conditioning |
| Answer» D. Classical conditioning | |
| 30. |
False sense of perception without any external object of stimulus is known as: |
| A. | Illusions |
| B. | Impulse |
| C. | Hallucination |
| D. | Phobia |
| Answer» D. Phobia | |
| 31. |
Transmitters mainly involved in OCN is - |
| A. | Dopamine |
| B. | GABA |
| C. | NE |
| D. | Serotonin |
| Answer» E. | |
| 32. |
T/t of alcohol withdrawl - |
| A. | BZD |
| B. | B-blocker |
| C. | SSRIs |
| D. | Amitryptiline |
| Answer» B. B-blocker | |
| 33. |
All of the following are features of hallucinations,except: |
| A. | Sensory organs are not involved |
| B. | It is independent of the will of the observer |
| C. | It occurs in the absence of a perceptual stimulus |
| D. | It is as vivid as that in a true sense perception |
| Answer» E. | |
| 34. |
Drugs used in Heroin withdrawl are A/E - |
| A. | Clonidine |
| B. | Buprenorphine |
| C. | Dextropropoxyphene |
| D. | Haloperidol |
| Answer» E. | |
| 35. |
Disulfiram: |
| A. | Inhibits aldehyde dehydrogenase |
| B. | Inhibits alcohol dehydrogenase |
| C. | None |
| D. | Both |
| Answer» E. | |
| 36. |
Consultation - liaison(C-L) psychiatry involves diagnosis - |
| A. | Sucidal tendency in phsychiatric patients |
| B. | Sucidal tendency in medically ill |
| C. | Psychiatric illness in medically ill |
| D. | Medical illness in phsychiatric patients |
| Answer» D. Medical illness in phsychiatric patients | |
| 37. |
Substance dependence is due to all except ? |
| A. | Family history of substance abuse |
| B. | Intelligence |
| C. | Personality |
| D. | Peer Pressure |
| Answer» C. Personality | |
| 38. |
Which of the following is a mature defence mechanism - |
| A. | Reacton formaton |
| B. | Projection |
| C. | Denial |
| D. | Anticipation |
| Answer» E. | |
| 39. |
Modafinil is approved by FDA for treatment of all except: |
| A. | Narcolepsy |
| B. | Lethargy in depression |
| C. | Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) |
| D. | Shift work syndrome (SWS) |
| Answer» C. Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) | |
| 40. |
A 50 year old man has presented with pain in back,lack of interest in recreational activities,low mood,lethargy,decreased sleep and appetite for two months.There was no history suggestive of delusions or hallucinations.He did not suffer from any chronic medical illness.There was no family history of psychiatric illness.Routine investigations including haemogram,renal function tests,liver function tests,electrocardiogram did not reveal any abnormality.This patient should be treated with: |
| A. | Sertraline |
| B. | Haloparidol |
| C. | Olanzapine |
| D. | Alprazolam |
| Answer» B. Haloparidol | |
| 41. |
Which of the following features is not included in psychosis - |
| A. | Hallucination |
| B. | Delusion |
| C. | Hypochondriasis |
| D. | Panic attack |
| Answer» E. | |
| 42. |
In obsessive - compulsive disorder, which is not given - |
| A. | Sertaline |
| B. | Cabamazepine |
| C. | Haloperidol |
| D. | Cloimipramine |
| Answer» D. Cloimipramine | |
| 43. |
Bad prognostic indicator of schizophrenia is - |
| A. | Family history of schizophrenia |
| B. | Late onset |
| C. | Prominent affective symptoms |
| D. | Positive precipitating factors |
| Answer» B. Late onset | |
| 44. |
ECT in depressive phase of MDP is useful because it - |
| A. | Shortness duration |
| B. | Increases drug effects |
| C. | Produces recurrence |
| D. | Reduces recurrence |
| Answer» B. Increases drug effects | |
| 45. |
Delusion are seen in all of the following except - |
| A. | Obscessive Compulsive Disorder |
| B. | Depression |
| C. | Schizophrenia |
| D. | Mania |
| Answer» B. Depression | |
| 46. |
Irresistible urge to move about with inner restlessness is called: |
| A. | Hyperkinesia |
| B. | Dyskinesia |
| C. | Akathisia |
| D. | Akinesia |
| Answer» D. Akinesia | |
| 47. |
Grossly disorganised, severe personality deterioration and worst prognosis is seen in - |
| A. | Simple |
| B. | Paranoid |
| C. | Catatonic |
| D. | Hebephrenic |
| Answer» D. Hebephrenic | |
| 48. |
Which of the following is not a part of behavioural science ? |
| A. | Social Psychology |
| B. | Social anthropology |
| C. | Political science |
| D. | Sociology |
| Answer» D. Sociology | |
| 49. |
Cognitive model of depression is given by? |
| A. | Beck |
| B. | Ellis |
| C. | Meicheinbanon |
| D. | Godfrey |
| Answer» B. Ellis | |
| 50. |
Alpha-rhythm is seen in - |
| A. | Mental activity |
| B. | Sleep with eyes closed with wandering |
| C. | Awake with eyes open |
| D. | REM sleep |
| Answer» E. | |