Sharma's SBAs

Question 1

What are Schneider’s first rank symptoms?

Answer 1

auditory hallucinations
thought insertion
thought withdrawal
thought broadcast
delusional perception
made feelings
somatic passivity

Question 2

What delusions are involved in Paranoid Schizophrenia?

Answer 2

Delusions of persecution, jealousy, reference and bodily change.

Question 3

A 25 year old cannabis misuser presents to A&E stating that Hulk Hogan has been following her. She is noted to be grimacing excessively and clicks her fingers constantly during the consultation. What is the most likely diagnosis?

Answer 3

Catatonic Schizophrenia.

(Motor immobility, excessive motor activity, peculiar voluntary movements, evidence of negativism).

Question 4

Schizophrenia age of onset is commonly at what age?

Answer 4

between 15 and 45

Question 5

What type of drug is Olanzapine?

Answer 5

Atypical antipsychotic

Question 6

Erotomania is what?

Answer 6

A belief that somebody of a higher status is in love with them.

Question 7

What is Capgras’s syndrome?

Answer 7

belief that a friend, spouse, family member has been replaced with an impostor.

Question 8

What is Cotard’s syndrome?

Answer 8

Delusion that they are dead literally or figuratively

Question 9

What is Fregoli’s syndrome?

Answer 9

Delusion that different people are in fact the same person just in disguise.

Question 10

When can a section 5(2) be used?

Answer 10

If an informal patient is threatening to leave hospital and there is evidence of mental state deterioration/risk of harm to self/others

lasts 72 hours

Question 11

Haloperidol use is associated with what particular type of side effect? How might you treat it?

Answer 11

Extra-pyramidal side effects

Procyclidine - anti-muscarinic