100 Psychiatry Tests with Answers and Diagrams

1.  Exogenous-organic mental illnesses include:

• 1) Mental disorders in cardiovascular diseases
• 2) Mental disorders in cerebrovascular diseases
• 3) Mental disorders in gastrointestinal diseases
• 4) Mental disorders in traumatic brain injuries
• 5) Mental disorders in brain tumors
• 6) Mental disorders in infectious diseases
• 7) Mental disorders in neuroinfections

answer 2,4,5,7

2. The course of traumatic disease includes the following periods:

• 1. Initial, late
• 2. Initial, acute, remote consequences
• 3. Initial, subacute, late
• 4. Acute, late, remote consequences
• 5. Initial, acute, late, remote consequences
• 6. Initial, acute, subacute

answer: 5

3. The cross-cutting mental disorders in traumatic brain injury are:

• 1. General cerebral
• 2. Twilight state
• 3. Asthenic
• 4. Delirious
• 5. Delusional
• 6. Psychoorganic
• 7. Hallucinatory-delusional

answer: 3

4. The following mental disorders (syndromes) are most characteristic of the initial period of traumatic brain injury:

• 1. Organic brain damage
• 2. General cerebral
• 3. Hallucinatory-delusional
• 4. Loss of consciousness
• 5. Clouding of consciousness

5. Acute (subacute) traumatic psychoses include:

• 1. Twilight state of consciousness
• 2. Delirium
• 3. Amentia
• 4. Reactive psychosis
• 5. Korsakoff's psychosis
• 6. Paraphrenic psychosis

answer: 1 2 3 5

6. The most common traumatic psychosis of the acute period is:

• 1. Twilight state of consciousness*
• 2. Delirium
• 3. Amentia
• 4. Oneiroid
• 5. Korsakoff's psychosis
• 6. Affective psychoses
• 7. Hallucinatory-delusional psychoses

7. In injury from an air blast wave, the most specific mental disorders are

• 1. Traumatic encephalopathy
• 2. Traumatic epilepsy
• 3. Traumatic dementia
• 4. Traumatic endoform psychoses
• 5. Traumatic surdomutism*
• 6. Traumatic cerebrasthenia

8. For all patients with traumatic brain injury, it is mandatory to prescribe:

• 1. Bed rest*
• 2. Antibiotics
• 3. Tranquilizers
• 4. Antihypertensive agents
• 5. Psychotherapeutic procedures
• 6. Physiotherapeutic procedures

9. Epilepsy belongs to:

• 1. Endogenous diseases
• 2. Endogenous-organic diseases*
• 3. Exogenous diseases
• 4. Exogenous-organic diseases

10. An aura is:

• 1. A precursor of a convulsive seizure
• 2. The initial stage of a seizure*
• 3. A complication of a seizure
• 4. A minor epileptic seizure

11. The sequence of stages of a grand mal seizure is as follows:

• 1. Aura, tonic phase, clonic phase, phase of generalization of convulsions, postictal sleep
• 2. Aura, clonic phase, tonic phase, postictal sleep
• 3. Aura, tonic phase, clonic phase, postictal sleep*
• 4. Aura, clonic phase, tonic phase, phase of generalization of convulsions, sleep

12. A Jacksonian seizure belongs to:

• 1. Grand mal seizures
• 2. Petit mal seizures
• 3. Focal seizures*
• 4. Nonconvulsive paroxysms

13. Patients with epilepsy are characterized by:

• 1. Viscosity and circumstantiality of thinking*
• 2. Rambling reasoning and inconsistency of judgment
• 3. Fragmentation of thinking
• 4. Acceleration of the pace of thinking

14. Status epilepticus is ...

• 1. A mental state of a patient with epilepsy
• 2. The patient's state during a seizure
• 3. A series of seizures following one another continuously*

15. Paroxysmal disorders are subdivided into:

• 1. prodromal, convulsive, generalized
• 2. prodromal, convulsive, nonconvulsive
• 3. prodromal, convulsive, nonconvulsive, generalized*
• 4. prodromal, generalized
• 5. convulsive, nonconvulsive
• 6. convulsive, generalized

16. A petit mal seizure belongs to:

• 1. generalized convulsive paroxysms*
• 2. focal convulsive paroxysms
• 3. nonconvulsive paroxysms

17. Name the date the Department of Mental Diseases of the St. Petersburg Medical-Surgical Academy was established:

• 1. 1835
• 2. 1860*
• 3. 1892

18. Who is the founder of the first Russian department of psychiatry?:

• 1. Balinsky I.M.*
• 2. Bekhterev V.M.
• 3. Osipov V.P.

19. Indicate the date the specially built clinic building for mental diseases of the Military Medical Academy was opened:

• 1. 1860
• 2. 1892*
• 3. 1913

20. Who headed the Department of Psychiatry of the Military Medical Academy during the years of the Great Patriotic War?:

• 1. Osipov V.P.
• 2. Timofeev N.N.
• 3. Chistovich A.S.

21. Since what time was the course of psychiatry taught at the Medical-Surgical Academy by P.D. Shipulinsky?:

• 1. 1803*
• 2. 1835
• 3. 1857

22. Who compiled the first psychiatry textbook for students of the Medical-Surgical Academy (1859) - lectures on mental diseases?:

• 1. Balinsky I.M.*
• 2. Merzheevsky I.P.
• 3. Shipulinsky P.D.

answer:1

23. On the basis of which psychiatric institution was the teaching of mental diseases at the Medical-Surgical Academy first organized?:

• 1. Hospital of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker
• 2. Admiralty Hospital
• 3. 2nd Military Land Hospital*

24. Which outstanding scientists have memorial plaques installed on the facade of the building of the Department and Clinic of Psychiatry of the Military Medical Academy?:

• 1. Osipov V.P.*
• 2. Kandinsky V.Kh.
• 3. Bekhterev V.M.*
• 4. Balinsky I.M.
• 5. Korsakov S.S.
• 6. Pavlov I.P.

25. At present, the main classification of mental illnesses in our country is considered to be:

• 1. Etiopathogenetic classification of diseases.
• 2. DSM-IV classification.
• 3. Clinical classification of diseases.
• 4. ICD-10 classification.*
• 5. ICD-9 classification.

26. The classifying features in the etiopathogenetic classification of mental illnesses are:

• 1. The presence (or absence) of a morphological substrate of brain damage.
• 2. The etiological factor of the onset of a mental illness.
• 3. The presence (or absence) of an etiopathogenetically significant external influence.
• 4. Features of the pathogenesis of the formation of a mental illness.
• 5. The presence (or absence) of a morphological substrate of brain damage and of an etiopathogenetically significant external influence.*

27. Endogenous mental illnesses are characterized by:

• 1. The presence of a morphological substrate of brain damage and of an etiopathogenetically significant external influence.
• 2. The absence of a morphological substrate of brain damage and of an etiopathogenetically significant external influence.*
• 3. The presence of a morphological substrate of brain damage, but the absence of an etiopathogenetically significant external influence.
• 4. The absence of a morphological substrate of brain damage, but the presence of an etiopathogenetically significant external influence.

28. Exogenous mental illnesses are characterized by:

• 1. The presence of a morphological substrate of brain damage and of an etiopathogenetically significant external influence.
• 2. The absence of a morphological substrate of brain damage and of an etiopathogenetically significant external influence.
• 3. The presence of a morphological substrate of brain damage, but the absence of an etiopathogenetically significant external influence.
• 4. The absence of a morphological substrate of brain damage, but the presence of an etiopathogenetically significant external influence.*

29. Endogenous-organic mental illnesses are characterized by:

• 1. The presence of a morphological substrate of brain damage and of an etiopathogenetically significant external influence.
• 2. The absence of a morphological substrate of brain damage and of an etiopathogenetically significant external influence.
• 3. The presence of a morphological substrate of brain damage, but the absence of an etiopathogenetically significant external influence.*
• 4. The absence of a morphological substrate of brain damage, but the presence of an etiopathogenetically significant external influence.

30. Exogenous-organic mental illnesses are characterized by:

• 1. The presence of a morphological substrate of brain damage and of an etiopathogenetically significant external influence.*
• 2. The absence of a morphological substrate of brain damage and of an etiopathogenetically significant external influence.
• 3. The presence of a morphological substrate of brain damage, but the absence of an etiopathogenetically significant external influence.
• 4. The absence of a morphological substrate of brain damage, but the presence of an etiopathogenetically significant external influence.

31. Which of the following illnesses are usually classified as endogenous?

• 1. Oligophrenias
• 2. Substance addictions
• 3. Manic-depressive psychosis*
• 4. Reactive psychoses
• 5. Schizophrenia*
• 6. Epilepsy
• 7. Alcoholism
• 8. Psychopathies
• 9. Neurotic states

32. Which of the following illnesses are usually classified as exogenous?

• 1. Oligophrenias
• 2. Substance addictions*
• 3. Manic-depressive psychosis
• 4. Reactive psychoses
• 5. Schizophrenia
• 6. Epilepsy
• 7. Alcoholism*
• 8. Psychopathies
• 9. Neurotic states

33. Which of the following illnesses are usually classified as psychogenic?

• 1. Oligophrenias
• 2. Substance addictions
• 3. Manic-depressive psychosis
• 4. Reactive psychoses*
• 5. Schizophrenia
• 6. Epilepsy
• 7. Alcoholism
• 8. Psychopathies
• 9. Neurotic states*

34. Which of the following illnesses are usually classified as endogenous-organic?

• 1. Oligophrenias
• 2. Substance addictions
• 3. Manic-depressive psychosis
• 4. Reactive psychoses
• 5. Schizophrenia
• 6. Epilepsy*
• 7. Alcoholism
• 8. Psychopathies
• 9. Neurotic states

35. The tiered classification of mental health adopted in our country provides for dividing military personnel into:

• 1. 3 mental health groups.
• 2. 4 mental health groups.
• 3. 5 mental health groups.*
• 4. 6 mental health groups.

36. General psychopathology is:

• 1. Part of the section "General Psychiatry"*
• 2. An independent branch of clinical psychiatry
• 3. Includes the section "General Psychiatry"
• 4. Part of medical psychology

37. General psychiatry is:

• 1. A branch of the physiology of higher nervous activity
• 2. A branch of general pathology*
• 3. A branch of medical psychology
• 4. An independent philosophical discipline

38. The psyche is defined as:

• 1. A state of the soul
• 2. A special property of highly organized matter*
• 3. The result of environmental influence

39. A psychopathological symptom is:

• 1. An unambiguous, one-dimensional sign
• 2. An ambiguous, multidimensional sign*

40. A psychopathological syndrome is defined as:

• 1. A combination of symptoms
• 2. A typical set of regularly interrelated symptoms*
• 3. A dynamic set of individual signs

41. In humans, the psyche is manifested in the following forms:

• 1. Mental properties of personality*
• 2. Psychodiagnostics
• 3. Mental states*
• 4. Psychoprophylaxis
• 5. Mental processes*
• 6. Psychotherapy

42. Mental status represents:

• 1. A set of signs of mental disorders
• 2. A characterization of the preserved elements of mental activity
• 3. An overall assessment of mental activity as a whole
• 4. A description of the patient's current mental state.*

43. Sensopathies belong to:

• 1. Pathology of emotions
• 2. Pathology of drives
• 3. Psychosensory disorders
• 4. Pathology of sensations*

44. Senestopathies are characterized by:

• 1. Impairment of consciousness
• 2. The unusual character of the sensations experienced*
• 3. The experience of distorted perception of external objects
• 4. Distressing, agonizing, unpleasant sensations*
• 5. A stable mood background
• 6. The presence of pronounced somato-neurological pathology

45. Illusions occur in:

• 1. Mentally healthy people
• 2. In various mental disorders
• 3. Both mentally healthy and mentally ill persons*

46. Affective illusions belong to:

• 1. Sensopathies
• 2. Pathological illusions*
• 3. Psychosensory disorders
• 4. Functional hallucinations

47. Prognostically favorable are hallucinations that are:

• 1. Visual*
• 2. Olfactory
• 3. Pseudohallucinations
• 4. Gustatory
• 5. True*
• 6. Tactile

48. True hallucinations are characterized by:

• 1. Projection of hallucinatory images "inward"
• 2. Sensory vividness, liveliness*
• 3. The presence of a critical attitude
• 4. Mnestic disorders

49. The classic description of pseudohallucinations belongs to:

• 1. I.M. Balinsky
• 2. V.Kh. Kandinsky*
• 3. V.P. Osipov
• 4. S.S. Korsakov

50. Pseudohallucinations are characterized by:

• 1. Projection of hallucinatory images "outward"
• 2. A feeling of "forcedness", "made-ness"*
• 3. Sensory vividness, liveliness
• 4. Pronounced asthenic manifestations

answer:2

51. Autometamorphopsias belong to:

• 1. Sensopathies
• 2. Dementia
• 3. Psychosensory disorders*
• 4. Pseudohallucinations
• 5. Memory disorders

52. Metamorphopsias are:

• 1. Distortion of the perception of the shape or size of one's own body
• 2. Impairment of orientation with respect to one's own personality
• 3. Impairment of the perception of the size and shape of objects and space*

53. Incoherence and fragmentation of thinking belong to:

• 1. Delusional ideas
• 2. Disorders of thinking in terms of the tempo of the associative process
• 3. Obsessions
• 4. Disorders of thinking in terms of the coherence of the associative process*
• 5. Overvalued ideas

54. Circumstantiality of thinking and thought blocking (sperrung) belong to:

• 1. Overvalued ideas
• 2. Disorders of thinking in terms of the tempo of the associative process*
• 3. Obsessive ideas
• 4. Delusional ideas
• 5. Disorders of thinking in terms of the coherence of the associative process

55. Delusional ideas are a sign of:

• 1. Disorders of the neurotic level
• 2. Disorders of the psychotic level*
• 3. May be observed at any of the above levels
• 4. May be observed both in mentally healthy and mentally ill persons

56. By content, delusional ideas of influence and poisoning belong to the group of delusional ideas of:

• 1. Grandeur
• 2. Self-abasement
• 3. Persecution*

57. By the mechanism of delusion formation, the following are distinguished:

• 1. Paralogical delusion- absurd delusion
• 2. Interpretive delusion- imagistic delusion*
• 3. Fragmentary delusion- systematized delusion

58. Hypsophobia is a fear of:

• 1. Sharp objects
• 2. Contamination
• 3. Heights*
• 4. Enclosed spaces
• 5. Water

59. Obsessive memories belong to the group of:

• 1. Obsessive fears
• 2. Obsessive urges
• 3. Ideomotor obsessions*
• 4. Compulsive actions

60. The main features of delusional ideas are:

• 1. False content*
• 2. Conviction in their correctness*
• 3. Duration of course
• 4. Absurd hallucinations
• 5. Inaccessibility to correction*
• 6. Pronounced affective disorders
• 7. Memory impairment

61. The main features of obsessive ideas are:

• 1. Disturbances of consciousness
• 2. Involuntary occurrence*
• 3. Attention disorder
• 4. Signs of dementia
• 5. Preservation of a critical attitude toward the obsessions*

62. The main features of overvalued ideas are:

• 1. Presence of hallucinations
• 2. Connection of onset with real events*
• 3. Absurd content
• 4. One-sided reflection of real circumstances*
• 5. Duration of course

63. Reasoning (rezonerstvo), diversity of planes, and fragmentation of thinking are characteristic of:

• 1. Psychopathies
• 2. Manic-depressive psychosis
• 3. Epilepsy
• 4. Schizophrenia*
• 5. Neurotic states
• 6. Oligophrenia

64. Fixation amnesia is the loss of memory for:

• 1. Events preceding the unconscious state, mental or somatic illness
• 2. Events immediately following the period of illness
• 3. Events that took place during the period of impaired consciousness
• 4. Current events*

65. Hypermnesia is characteristic of the following psychopathological syndromes:

• 1. Delirious*
• 2. Asthenic
• 3. Manic
• 4. Korsakoff*
• 5. Paranoiac
• 6. Depressive

66. Confabulations are characterized by the following features:

• 1. Persistence*
• 2. Critical attitude
• 3. Transfer of real events in time
• 4. Fantastical, implausible content*
• 5. Simplicity, uncomplicated structure

67. Cryptomnesias represent:

• 1. Transfer in time of events that actually took place
• 2. False memories
• 3. Erasure of the boundary between real events and events heard, seen, or read*
• 4. Loss of memory for events of a certain period of time

68. Pronounced memory disorders are characteristic of:

• 1. Manic-depressive psychosis
• 2. Psychopathies
• 3. Organic brain damage with mental disorders*
• 4. Neuroses
• 5. Schizophrenia

69. Fixation amnesia is characteristic of the following psychopathological syndrome:

• 1. Paranoiac
• 2. Manic
• 3. Delirious
• 4. Korsakoff syndrome*
• 5. Asthenic
• 6. Obsessive

70. Aprosexia, hypoprosexia, and hypermetamorphosis belong to the pathology of

• 1. Memory
• 2. Sensations
• 3. Will
• 4. Attention*
• 5. Perception

71. Aprosexia is:

• 1. Inability to concentrate for a long time
• 2. Increased switchability of attention
• 3. Narrowing of the "field of attention"
• 4. Complete absence ("dropping out") of attention*

72. Hypermetamorphosis is:

• 1. "Dropping out" of attention
• 2. Narrowing of the "field of attention"
• 3. Increased switchability of attention, distractibility*
• 4. Decreased switchability of attention

73. A melancholic-hostile character of mood is designated as:

• 1. Dysthymia
• 2. Hypothymia
• 3. Dysphoria*

74. Anguish and anxiety belong to the groups of symptoms of:

• 1. Instability of the emotional sphere
• 2. Decreased mood*
• 3. Qualitative distortion of emotions

75. Hyperthymia is characteristic of the following psychopathological syndrome:

• 1. Paranoid
• 2. Catatonic
• 3. Manic*
• 4. Asthenic

76. Emotional dullness is observed in:

• 1. Psychopathies
• 2. Alcoholic delirium
• 3. Schizophrenia*
• 4. Manic-depressive psychosis
• 5. Neuroses

77. Apathy belongs to the group of symptoms of:

• 1. Decreased mood
• 2. Qualitative distortion of emotions*
• 3. Instability of the emotional sphere

78. Emotional lability (weak-mindedness) is characteristic of:

• 1. Schizophrenia
• 2. Alcoholic psychoses
• 3. Oligophrenia*
• 4. Vascular diseases of the brain

79. Abulia is characteristic of:

• 1. Psychopathies
• 2. Schizophrenic defect*
• 3. Alcoholic psychoses
• 4. Cyclophrenia
• 5. Organic lesions of the frontal lobes of the brain*

80. Pyromania is a morbid urge to:

• 1. Vagrancy
• 2. Theft
• 3. Arson*
• 4. Suicide

81. Polydipsia is a pathological increase in:

• 1. Appetite
• 2. Thirst*
• 3. Sexuality
• 4. Volitional impulses

82. Depressive stupor is observed in:

• 1. Schizophrenia
• 2. Neuroses
• 3. Manic-depressive psychosis*
• 4. Alcoholism
• 5. Psychopathies

83. Catatonic stupor is observed in:

• 1. Psychogenias
• 2. Oligophrenia
• 3. Manic-depressive psychosis
• 4. Schizophrenia*
• 5. Psychopathies

84. Psychoorganic syndrome is characterized by:

• 1. Delusional ideas
• 2. Intellectual decline*
• 3. Impaired consciousness
• 4. Loss of affective control*
• 5. Hallucinations
• 6. Mnestic disorders*
• 7. Obsessive experiences
• 8. Reasoning tendency (resonerstvo)

85. Clinical variants of psychoorganic syndrome include:

• 1. Asthenic*
• 2. Hallucinatory
• 3. Explosive*
• 4. Apathetic*
• 5. Depressive
• 6. Delusional
• 7. Euphoric*
• 8. Obsessive-phobic

86. Psychoorganic syndrome is observed in:

• 1. Alcoholism*
• 2. Schizophrenia
• 3. Psychopathies
• 4. Atrophic diseases of the brain*
• 5. Psychogenias
• 6. Brain tumors*
• 7. Manic-depressive psychosis

87. The main disturbances in Korsakoff's syndrome are observed in the sphere of:

• 1. Perception
• 2. Thinking
• 3. Attention
• 4. Memory*
• 5. Emotions

88. Korsakoff's syndrome is characterized by:

• 1. Anxiety
• 2. Euphoria*
• 3. Progressive amnesia
• 4. Fixation amnesia*
• 5. Hallucinations
• 6. Retrograde and anterograde amnesia*
• 7. Delusions
• 8. Confabulations*
• 9. Senestopathies

89. Epileptiform syndrome occurs more often in:

• 1. Schizophrenia
• 2. Psychogenias
• 3. Alcoholism*
• 4. Remote consequences of traumatic brain injury*
• 5. Cyclophrenia
• 6. Psychopathies

90. Schizophrenic dementia is regarded as:

• 1. Congenital feeble-mindedness
• 2. A partial variant of acquired dementia
• 3. A special type of dementia*
• 4. A total variant of acquired dementia

91. The main features of clouding of consciousness were described by:

• 1. V.P. Osipov
• 2. V.M. Bekhterev
• 3. E. Kraepelin
• 4. K. Jaspers*
• 5. E. Bleuler

92. K. Jaspers' tetrad includes:

• 1. Attention disturbances
• 2. Memory disturbances*
• 3. Volitional disturbances
• 4. Thought disturbances*
• 5. Disturbance of orientation*
• 6. Disturbance of drives
• 7. Perceptual disturbances*
• 8. Motor disturbances

93. Obnubilation belongs to the syndromes of:

• 1. Clouding of consciousness
• 2. Disturbance of self-awareness
• 3. Disconnection (switching off) of consciousness*
• 4. Hallucinatory-delusional syndromes
• 5. Affective syndromes

94. The absence of verbal contact and reflexes is characteristic of:

• 1. Sopor
• 2. Coma*
• 3. Obtundation (dulling of consciousness)
• 4. Stupor

95. The syndromes of clouding of consciousness include:

• 1. Hallucinosis
• 2. Twilight state of consciousness*
• 3. Psychoorganic syndrome
• 4. Syndrome of mental automatism
• 5. Amentia*
• 6. Depressive syndrome
• 7. Delirium*
• 8. Korsakoff's syndrome
• 9. Depersonalization
• 10. Oneiroid*
• 11. Catatonic syndrome
• 12. Paraphrenic syndrome

96. Delirium occurs more often in:

• 1. Schizophrenia
• 2. Neuroses
• 3. Alcoholism*
• 4. Cyclophrenia
• 5. The acute period of traumatic brain injury*
• 6. Psychopathies

97. Twilight clouding of consciousness is characteristic of:

• 1. Schizophrenia
• 2. Cyclophrenia
• 3. Epilepsy*
• 4. Psychopathies
• 5. Alcoholism

98. Amentia is characterized by:

• 1. Paroxysmal onset and termination
• 2. The presence of prolonged, exhausting somatic illnesses*
• 3. Full-blown hallucinatory-delusional experiences
• 4. Affect of bewilderment, confusion*
• 5. Complete amnesia of the experience*
• 6. Euphoria
• 7. The presence of mental automatisms

99. Derealization and depersonalization belong to which group of syndromes:

• 1. Neurotic
• 2. Hallucinatory-delusional
• 3. Clouding of consciousness
• 4. Affective
• 5. Disturbances of self-awareness*
• 6. Organic brain damage

100. Delirium is characterized by:

• 1. Endogenous etiology
• 2. Exogenous etiology*
• 3. Stable course
• 4. Fluctuating course*
• 5. Predominance of true hallucinations*
• 6. Predominance of pseudohallucinations
• 7. Euphoria
• 8. Fear, anxiety*
• 9. Dissociation between behavior and inner experience

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