Mcq Subject: Psychiatry
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 restlessness, fidgety, irritability and cannot sit still in one place. The most appropriate treatment strategy is –
A. Increase in the dose of haloperidol
B. Addition of anticholinergic drug
C. Addtion of beta blocker
D. Adding another antipsychotic drug
View DescriptionAll of the following are true about paranoid schizophrenia except –
A. Most common type of schizophrenia
B. Onset in 3rd / 4th decade
C. Delusions of grandeur
D. Rapid deterioration of personality
View DescriptionIn catatonic schizophrenia, all are seen except :
A. Mannerism
B. Negativism
C. Echolalia
D. Flight of ideas
View DescriptionWaxy flexibility and stereotype verbal and behavioural signs are seen in
A. Paranoid schizophrenia
B. Hebephrenic schizophrenia
C. Catatonic schizophrenia
D. Simple schizophrenia
View DescriptionA first year psychiatric resident is interviewing a patient in psychiatry ward. On asking any question, patient starts giving long details and to the point that listener may get bored, but eventually patient answers the question. Which of the following abnormality the resident could find in this patient?
A. Loosening of association
B. Tangentiality
C. Flight of ideas
D. Circumstantiality
View DescriptionIndications for ECT are :
A. Paranoid schizophrenia
B. Depression with suicidal tendency
C. Neurotic depression
D. All
View Descriptionb-adrenergic receptor antagonists such as propranolol is used in the treatment of which of the following?
A. Performance anxiety
B. Substance use disorders
C. Lithium tremor
D. All of the above
View DescriptionTrue about anorexia nervosa are all except
A. Leukopenia
B. Amenorrhea
C. Self induced vomiting
D. More common in adult females
View DescriptionFalse regarding delirium tremens ?
A. Tremors
B. Opthalmoplegia
C. Visual hallucination
D. Clouding of consciousness
View DescriptionNot used for erectile dysfunction ?
A. Beta-blockers
B. Sildenafil
C. PG-E
D. Papaverine
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