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strongest risk factor for suicide
substance use + indigenous
if a person has both ovaries and testes.
Hermaphroditism.
This scale has sections on symptoms, behaviour, social and functioning.
Answer: Brief psychiatric rating scale.
This scale detects psychiatric caseness. Choices, BPRS, GHQ, HoNOS
GHQ, general health questionnaire.
Erik Erikson, which one of the following is mentioned in a psychosocial theory
Answer: Generativity. This is the stage of generativity versus stagnation.
In which phase is one happy or relieved to have learnt a new skill?
Answer: Industry versus inferiority.
Female child seems normal then has learning problems after six months and appears like she has acquired microcephaly.
Answer: Rett syndrome.
Male child with hand biting and other self-injurious behaviours.
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome.
What differentiates normal age-related cognitive decline from dementia?
Progressive cognitive decline.
Other than age, which factor is associated with higher seizure thresholds?
Bilateral ECT
Male patient was admitted for detoxification, has had IV heroin 10 times a day, want substitution therapy.
Methadone high dose
This will be diagnostic in 70% of patients with sporadic CJD.
Answer EEG. The variant CJD shows pulvinar sign on regular MRI not fMRI.
My boss looks at me a certain way. He must hate me.
jumping to conclusions
A homosexual man thinks that the community will not accept him so he enters a heterosexual relationship.
Denial.
Which of the following would be most appropriately detected by diffusion tensor imaging in schizophrenia.
• Lateral ventricular enlargement.
• Enlarged parahippocampal gyrus.
• Parietal lobe blood flow abnormalities.
• Frontal and temporal white matter abnormality.
Frontal and temporal white matter. Schizophrenia has frontal and temporal involvement. Parietal lobe involvement indicates Alzheimer’s.
Decreased ability to concentrate urine.
Lithium.
A 17-year-old female reports hearing her friend say bad things about her.
Delusional perception
Mother leaves the child. Upon returning, he cries. She says, I’m back now and he freezes. Insecure avoidant, insecure resistant or disorganised.
Insecure resistant.
Child can play next to mother.
Mahler practicing
Lowest risk mood stabiliser in pregnancy.
Lamotrigine.
Overdose of benztropine amongst bradycardia, hypertension, miosis, tachycardia, tachypnoea, tremor and mydriasis.
Mydriasis
Mother who suffered from childhood sexual abuse previously finds a man who is attempting to sexually abuse her 6-year-old son. She defends her son by attacking the man and killing him.
provocation
Which childhood disorder can lead to panic disorder without agoraphobia. Choices, separation anxiety, major depression of adolescence and reactive attachment disorder of infancy
Separation anxiety.
Patient wants to kill his partner. Select the most relevant forensic concept.
Tarasoff Rule. Other choices were Durham rule not used.