History taking, present mental state & symptomatolog

Question 1

What is the term that describes turning towards/away from the examiner when speaking to them.

Answer 1

Aversion

Question 2

motor reflection of ambivalence

Answer 2

Ambitendency

Question 3

carrying out of every instruction received

Answer 3

Automatic obedience

Question 4

repetition of the last few syllables of another person

Answer 4

Echolalia

Question 5

repetitive performance of every action of a nearby person

Answer 5

Echopraxia

Question 6

a term used to describe a syndrome of
echolalia, echopraxia and waxy flexibility

Answer 6

Command automatism

Question 7

state of immobility without physical or emotional response;
occasional grimacing may occur if reacting to hallucinations and the eyes are
expressive

Answer 7

Stupor

Question 8

placed into a posture and will hold it for minutes/ hours.

Answer 8

Waxy flexibility

Question 9

abnormal execution of an understandable goal directed
movement

Answer 9

Mannerism

Question 10

Non goal directed movement carried out in a uniform way

Answer 10

Stereotypical movement

Question 11

bizarre posture rigidly maintained
for hours

Answer 11

Stereotyped/ manneristic posture

Question 12

movement of body in response to light pressure until the
movement is halted

Answer 12

Mitgehen

Question 13

Movement of body in response to light pressure but
returns to resting state when the pressure ceases

Answer 13

Mitmachen

Question 14

active resistance of all interventions or attempts at passive
movements

Answer 14

Negativism

Question 15

resistance to all attempts at passive movement with exactly the same degree of pressure as that applied

Answer 15

Opposition

Question 16

subjective sense of restlessness, worse in
Lower Limb leading to constant shifting of posture
(antipsychotics/SSRIs)

Answer 16

Akathesia

Question 17

continuous flow of small jerky movements from
limb to limb (Huntington’s disease, Sydenham’s chorea,
thyrotoxicosis, medications: antipsychotics, oral
contraceptives)

Answer 17

Chorea

Question 18

Orofacial dyskinesia after prolonged use of antipsychotics

Answer 18

Rabbit syndrome

Question 19

Poverty of thought as expressed in language

Answer 19

Alogia

Question 20

Tics of obscene verbalisations, associated with Tourette
syndrome

Answer 20

Coprolalia

Question 21

A child can’t speak in certain settings

Answer 21

Selective mutism

Question 22

new word with idiosyncratic meaning (schizophrenia)

Answer 22

Neologism

Question 23

talking past the point): approximate answers to
questions indicating an understanding of the question but giving a
deliberately false answer;

Answer 23

Vorbeireden

Question 24

anxious, puzzled bewilderment seen in early psychosis

Answer 24

Perplexity

Question 25

Thoughts are associated by the sound of words rather than by their meaning (e.g. through rhyming)

Answer 25

Clang association

Question 26

thought slides into a subsidiary thought. A breakdown in both the logical connection between ideas and the overall sense of goaldirectedness. The words make sentences but the sentences do not make sense.

Answer 26

Derailment

Question 27

repetition of out of context words, phrases or ideas

Answer 27

Perseveration

Question 28

thoughts of self, the world, the future

Answer 28

Beck's cognitive triad

Question 29

The process of continuously thinking about the same thoughts, which tend to be sad

Answer 29

Rumination

Question 30

Syndrome of (delirium of parasitosis/delusions of infestation) the belief of being infested by living beings

Answer 30

Ekbom's syndrome

Question 31

Name of Syndrome of (Nihilistic delusions)

Answer 31

Cotard syndrome

Question 32

What is the Delusional misidentification that a familiar person is replaced by an imposter

Answer 32

Capgras syndrome

Question 33

What is the syndrome of Delusional misidentification of an unfamiliar person as a familiar

Answer 33

Fregoli syndrome

Question 34

What is the syndrome in which there's Morbid jeolousy where the person believes that one’s partner is unfaithful,

Answer 34

Othello syndrome

Question 35

Syndrome in which there's (Erotomania/ delusions of love)

Answer 35

De Clerambault syndrome

Question 36

approximate answers interspersed with correct answers, apparent disorientation, clouding of consciousness, vorbeireden, pseudohallucination, fluctuation of somatic symptoms. The patient may have amnesia for the duration of illness after recovery

Answer 36

Ganser syndrome

Question 37

(hospital addiction syndrome):

Answer 37

Munchausen syndrome

Question 38

transfer of delusion from one person with psychotic disorder to another

Answer 38

Folie à deux

Question 39

parent imposed their child to be admitted to a psychiatry hospital, a form of child abuse

Answer 39

Munchausen by proxy

Question 40

If a pt. Has an impaired abstraction, he is said to have....... Thinking

Answer 40

Concrete

Question 41

In risk assessment, what are the typea of risks to be assessed in a psychiatry patient?

Answer 41

Risk to self Risk to others Risk from others