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SPMM Paper A - Assessment In Psychiatry: Q’s And A’s
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SPMM Paper A - Assessment In Psychiatry: Q’s And A’sAnorexia nervosa twin concordance Right Ans - MZ: 65%
DZ: 32%
Features of OCD Personality Disorder Right Ans - Perfectionism interfering
with ability to complete tasks
Inability to delegate tasks
Miserliness; hoarding of money
Hoarding behaviour
Excessive devotion to work and productivity
Excessive devotion to rules
Inflexibility of morals
Asperger syndrome characteristics Right Ans - Severe persistent
impairment of reciprocal social interaction
Repetitive behaviour
Restricted interests
Ganser syndrome ICD-11 chapter Right Ans - Other specified dissociative
disorders
Features of FTD Right Ans - Insidious onset and progressive
Marked personality, behavioural and language deficits
Julian Angst Right Ans - Idea of bipolarity
Wilhelm Griesinger Right Ans - Psychological disorders can be explained in
terms of brain pathology
Neurological causes of catatonia Right Ans - Encephalitis, Parkinsonism,
seizure disorder, bilateral globus pallidus disease, parietal or thalamic lesions,
frontal lobe disease
Anorexia Nervosa 'significantly reduced body weight' vs 'dangerously reduced
body weight' Right Ans - Significantly reduced 18.5 - 14
Dangerously low <14
, Arterial spin labelling Right Ans - MRI perfusion technique allowing
cerebral perfusion to be measured without a radioactive tracer
metabolic encephalopathy EEG Right Ans - Diffuse slowing of background
waves
Delta and theta waves
contructional apraxia associated with damage to which hemisphere Right
Ans - Right hemisphere
Commonest opportunistic infection in AIDS Right Ans - Toxoplasmosis
gondii
Letter cancellation and line bisection tasks test Right Ans - Visual neglect
Anomic dysphasia lesion Right Ans - Dominant tempero-parietal region
(language cortex)
In SPECT Isomazil(I-123) is used to label Right Ans - GABA-A receptors
Heroine associated nephropathy Right Ans -
Use of T1 in MRI Right Ans - Visualise normal brain structure - closely
resembles CT
T1 sequence is also necessary for gadolinium contrast enhancement
Alexia without agraphia vascular lesion Right Ans - Left posterior cerebral
artery
Causes lesions in left (dominant) angular gyrus preventing visual information
from occipital cortex to language center
Blood supply of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex Right Ans - Middle cerebral
artery
Frontal release signs Right Ans - Generalised cerebral damage, but
particularly frontal lobe damage can lead to recurrence of primitive reflexes:
glabella tap, rooting, snouting, sucking,
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