Students of 5th General Medicine

Psychiatry: Exam questions

I. General psychiatry
1. History of psychiatry
2. Mental health / mental disorder (definitions)
3. Methods of examinations in psychiatry (psychiatric interview, mental state
examination (MSE), special diagnostic methods)
4. Etiology, risk factors and pathogenesis (pathophysiology) of mental disorders. Bio-
psycho-social model of mental disorders
5. Disturbance of volition (will and acting)
6. Disturbances of thinking (disturbances of thought process, thought content and formal
thought disorders)
7. Disturbances of perception (illusions and hallucinations)
8. Disturbances of psychomotor, catatonia
9. Disturbances of emotions (affect and mood)
10. Disturbances of attention and memory
11. Disturbances of consciousness (quantitative and qualitative)
12. Disturbances of intellectual functions (mental retardation)
13. Psychosis, neurosis, psychopathy (definitions of terms)
14. Treatment methods in psychiatry (pharmacological and non-pharmacological)
15. Main categories of psychotropic medications (Antidepressants, Antipsychotics,
Anxiolytics, Hypnotics, Mood stabilizers, Stimulants)
16. Biological therapy in psychiatry: Electro-convulsive therapy (ECT). Transcranial
magnetic stimulation (TMS). Phototherapy (light therapy)
17. Psychotherapy (cognitive behavioral therapy, family therapy, group psychotherapy)
Rehabilitation and resocialization.
18. Social psychiatry, cultural psychiatry

II. Special Psychiatry

1. Organic mental disorders (Cognitive disorders). Dementia (Alzheimer dementia
(AD), vascular dementia). Epidemiology, risk factors, key changes in the brain in AD,
cognitive and non cognitive symptoms (BPSD), treatment, course and prognosis.
Delirium (due to a general medical condition (somatogenic delirium).
2. Substance use disorder (Addictive Disorders). General characteristics of
psychoactive drugs, classification of substance use disorder, epidemiology.
Pathophysiology of addiction. Acute intoxication, harmful use (abuse), dependence
syndrome (addiction), withdrawal state. Goals and stages of treatment of substance
use disorders (detoxification, maintenance treatment). Alcohol-Related Disorders.
3. Schizophrenia. Eepidemiology, etiology, environmental risk factors, and
pathophysiology (dopamine hypothesis). Clinical picture of schizophrenia (five
domains of psychopathology, positive and negative symptoms), the course and
prognosis of schizophrenia. Pharmacotherapy of schizophrenia (treatment in acute
phase, maintenance (chronic) treatment), psychosocial treatment (rehabilitation,
resocialization, reintegration).
4. Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders. Schizoaffective disorder. Delusional disorder.
Schizophreniphorm Disorder. Brief Psychotic Disorder.
5. Mood (affective) disorders. Unipolar depression. Major depressive disorder.
Epidemiology, etiology and risk factors, monoamine hypothesis, clinical picture,
course and treatment. Physical illness and depression. Reccurrent depression.
Dysthymia (Dysthymic disorder).
6. Bipolar disorder. Epidemiology, etiology and pathophysiology, clinical picture
(manic, hypomanic episode, depressive episode, Bipolar I, Bipolar II). Treatment,
course and prognosis of Bipolar disorder. Cyclothymia (Cyclothymic disorder)
7. Anxious (neurotic) disorders. Epidemiology, etiology, risk factors, clinical picture,
typical signs and symptoms. Agoraphobia, social phobia, specific phobia. Generalized
anxiety disorder. Obsessive-compulsive disorder. Panic disorder.
8. Stress related disorders. Acute stress reaction, Posttraumatic stress disorder.
Epidemiology, etiology, clinical picture, treatment, course and prognosis.
9. Eating disorders. Epidemiology, risk factors, clinical picture, course, treatment.
Anorexia mentalis. Bulimia mentalis. Binge eating disorder . Medical complications
related to weight loss and to purging.
10. Personality disorders. Clusters A,B,C of personality disorders. Course, prognosis
and treatment.
11. Sexual dysfunction. Sexual disorders.