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Question 1 Select the mental function that is most affected in mild cognitive impairment. Selected Answer: D. Recent memory Question 2 Select the most frequent cause of infant and childhood intellectual disability that is attributed to a specific gene. Selected Answer: C. Down syndrome Question 3 Select the neurotransmitter that is most associated with the occurrence of ADHD. Selected Answer: B. Dopamine Question 4 Select the drug of choice to treat psychosis in delirious patients. Selected Answer: D. Haloperidol Question 5 Select the characteristic that is greater in childhood than adult onset schizophrenia. Selected
Answer: B. Social withdrawal Question 6 Select the personality disorder in which patients are continually in crisis and exhibit unpredictable behavior. Selected Answer: C. Borderline Question 7
A. Clozapine Question 11 Select the time of onset for tolerance to develop from continuous use of hallucinogens such as LSD. Selected
Answer: Tolerance, particularly to the sensory and other psychological effects, is evident as soon as the second or third day of successive LSD use. Four to 6 days free of LSD are necessary to lose significant tolerance. B.4-7 days Question 12 Select the most reliable method to make a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Selected Answer: Therefore, a patient’s history is essential for the diagnosis of schizophrenia; clinicians cannot diagnose schizophrenia simply by results of a mental status examination, which may vary. D. Patient history Question 13 Select the dysfunction that is common to 50% to 85% of schizophrenic patients. Selected Answer: Various studies have reported abnormal eye movements in 50 to 85 percent of patients with schizophrenia compared with about 25 percent in psychiatric patients without schizophrenia and fewer than 10 percent in nonpsychiatrically ill control participant. D. Eye movement Question 14 Select two of the “Four A’s” symptoms of schizophrenia described by Bleuler. Selected These symptoms included associational disturbances of thought, especially looseness, affective disturbances, autism, and ambivalence, summarized as the four As: associations, affect, autism, and ambivalence. Answers: A. autism B. ambivalence Question 15
Select the negative symptom of schizophrenia. Selected Answer: A. Anhedonia Question 17 Select the main cause female orgasmic disorder. Selected Answer: B. Genetic Question 18 Select the age range for 90% of patients treated for schizophrenia. Selected Answer: About 90 percent of patients in treatment for schizophrenia are between 15 and 55 years old. B. 10- Question 19 Select the non-drug therapy in which mastery of anxiety through desensitization is critical to successful treatment of sexual dysfunction. Selected Answer: The behavior therapist enables the patient to master the anxiety through a standard program of systematic desensitization, which is designed to inhibit the learned anxious response by encouraging behaviors antithetical to anxiety. \AC1336647530\BEHAVIORAL THERAPY C. Group Question 20
Select the disorder that is often comorbid with brief psychotic disorder. Selected Answer: Personality disorder is also a predisposing factor for other psychiatric disorders D. Personality Question 21
angle, failure of breast development, and lack of pubic hair. B.5-α-reductase deficiency Question 25 Select the age range of the highest rate of substance dependence or abuse. Selected
Answer: In 2012, the rate for dependence or abuse is highest among adults age 18 to 25 ( percent) compared to youths age 12 to 17 (6 percent) and adults age 26 or older (7 percent). After age 21, a general decline occurred with age. B. 18- Question 26 Select two terms preferred to describe sexual orientation. Selected Answers: Hemosexual and Hecterosexual A. Gay D. Lesbian Question 27 Select the two patient populations in which delirium occurs most frequently. Selected Answers: B. Terminally ill C. Long-term care Question 28 Select the drug used to treat neuroleptic malignant syndrome. Selected Answer: C. Dantrolene Question 29 Select the drug that is most likely to cause parkinsonian movement symptoms. Selected Answer: D. Haloperidol Question 30
Select the psychiatric emergency that is indicated by mothers who express inadequate distress over their children’s medical symptoms. Selected Answer: Careful observation may reveal that the mothers often do not exhibit appropriate signs of distress on hearing the details of the child’s medical symptoms. D. Munchausen’s syndrome Question 32 Select the drug that is least life-threatening when consumed in an overdose. Selected Answer: B. Zolpidem Question 33 Select the drug that is most safe and effective in treating mild to moderate memory loss in early Alzheimer’s disease. Selected Answer:
Question 34 Select the substance that is most commonly abused by adolescents. Selected Answer:
Question 35
Select the development time of symptoms in neuroleptic malignant syndrome. Selected Answer: The symptoms usually evolve over 24 to 72 hours, and the untreated syndrome lasts 10 to 14 days. D. 10-14 days Question 36
properties of opioids. Selected Answer:
Question 41 Select the type of hallucinations most common in schizophrenia.
Selected The most common hallucinations, however, are auditory, with voices that are often threatening, obscene, accusatory, or insulting. Answer: C. Auditory Question 42 Select the diagnostic criterion for catatonia resulting from a medical condition. Selected Answer:
Question 43 Select the two factors that are not applicable to diagnosing schizoaffective disorder. Selected Answers: As with most psychiatric diagnoses, schizoaffective disorder should not be used if the symptoms are caused by substance abuse or a secondary medical condition.
Question 44 Select the percentage of substance-addicted persons with a concurrent psychiatric disorder. Selected Answer: B. 50 Question 45 Select the hepatic enzyme that performs the initial metabolism of alcohol. Selected Answer: A.ADH
B. Absence in age less than 50 Question 47 Select the neurotransmitter that inhibits sexual orgasm. Selected Answer:
Question 48 Select the drug that is least likely to cause male sexual dysfunction. Selected Answer:
Question 49 Select the youngest age at which childhood-onset schizophrenia can be distinguished from autism spectrum. Selected Answer:
Question 50 Select the most effective form of questioning when taking a sex history. Selected Answer:
Question 51
Select the initial intervention to treat children experiencing acute school refusal. Selected Answer:
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