Flash Review: Psychiatry Essentials in 20 Flashcards for NEET PG 2026

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Anhedonia

• Decreased interest in pleasurable activity.
• Seen in depression and schizophrenia.
• One of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia.

Alexithymia

Inability to express or understand emotions.

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DSM-5

DSM IV TR had a multi-axial system; It described various psychotic disorders into various axes.

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Prognostic Factors of Schizophrenia

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Acute Dystonia

• Onset: Earliest, can occur within a few minutes of IV/IM.
• Sudden muscle contraction
• Eyes: Oculogyric crisis (rolling upwards)
• Neck: Torticollis (neck muscles will be twisted to one side)
• Jaw muscles: Trismus
• Larynx: Laryngospasm.
• Glossopharyngeal: Dysarthria, Dysphasia, Dystonia.
• Rx
  • Parenteral (IV/ IM) anticholinergic - Benztropine, Diphenhydramine, Promethazine
  • Oral Anticholinergics: For prophylaxis

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Akathisia

• Most common
• Restlessness
  • Subjective signs (patient may tell that he has restlessness)
  • Objective signs (noticed by others)
    • Rocking motion
    • Placing around
    • Rapid alteration of sitting and standing
• Rx
  • Beta blockers: Propranolol (DOC)
  • Anticholinergics
  • Benzodiazepines
  • Other
    • Reducing antipsychotic drugs
    • Changing drug to Atypical/ low potency typical antipsychotics

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Typical/ 1st Generation Antipsychotics

Phenothiazines (Azine at the end)

• Low potency
  • Chlorpromazine
  • Triflupromazine
  • Thioridazine
  • Mesoridazine
• High potency
  • Fluphenazine
  • Trifluoperazine
  • Prochlorperazine

Thioxanthenes (Thix is present)

• Thiothixene
• Flupenthixol
• Zuclopenthixol

Butyrophenones (Peridol at the end)

High potency

• Haloperidol
• Droperidol
• Benperidol

Miscellaneous

• Pimozide
• Loxapine
• Penfluridol
• Molindone

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Clozapine

• Withdrawn from the market due to Side effects and also caused many deaths.
• Again reintroduced after John Kane et al. study - Showed that Clozapine can be used for treatment resistant Schizophrenia.

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• All the drugs are esterified forms of parent drug, except Risperidone.
• Risperidone is coated in polymer, to produce microspheres.

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Z Track Technique

• To prevent oozing of drugs to other tissues after DEPOT is injected and pulled out.
• Technique: When skin is pulled towards a side before DEPOT is injected, forms a Z Track, which prevents leaks.

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Cognitive Triad of Depression

Learned helplessness theory:

• Connects depression to the experience of uncontrollable adverse events.
• Depressive patients start to believe they have no sense of control and lose the motivation to act.

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Postpartum Depression

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Risk of Lithium Toxicity 

• Exceeding recommended dosage
• Renal impairment
• Drug interaction
• The body treats lithium like sodium so in certain conditions like low sodium diet or dehydration the body tries to observe sodium and also observe lithium and subsequently to toxicity.

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Depersonalization-derealization disorder

Flashcard 13

Cannabis Related Disorders

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Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT)

Manage the withdrawal Symptoms. Tobacco contains along with Nicotine, other harmful substances too. So, it is replaced by safer forms of nicotine like

• Nicotine Gums
• Nicotine Lozenges
• Nicotine Patches
• Nicotine Nasal Spray
• Nicotine Inhalers

Earlier there was e-Cigarettes, which are now banned in India.

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Autism Spectrum Disorder 

• Previously known as pervasive developmental disorder (PDD).
• DSM-V and ICD-11 recognize the disorder as autism spectrum disorder.
• Neurodevelopmental disorder.

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Russell's Sign

Callus on knuckles- Due to self-induced vomiting, the knuckles get injured by the teeth.

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Theory on Personality

Mnemonic: OCEAN

• Openness to Experience
• Conscientiousness
• Extraversion
• Agreeableness
• Neuroticism

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Mental Health Care Act: MHCA 2017

• A new legislation that deals with treatment and rights of patients with mental illness
• Replace older act MHCA- 1987

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Protection of children from sexual offenses act- POCSO 2012

• Legal framework for protection of children against sexual offenses. Both male and female children. Protect children from offenses of
  • Sexual harassment
  • Sexual Assault
  • Penetrative Sexual harassment - Vaginal /anal / oral
  • Child pornography

Flashcard 20

Rorschach Inkblot test

• Developed by Herman Rorschach.
• Most frequently used projective personality test.
• Consists of 10 Inkblot cards (ambiguous, symmetrical).
• The patient is asked what he sees in the cards.
• The answers are not objective, there may be endless answers.

Also read: Exam-Oriented Neoplasia Questions and Answers

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