Important Topics in Psychiatry for NEET-PG
Nov 9, 2018
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Most Important Topics in Psychiatry for NEET-PG
Most Important Topics in Psychiatry for NEET-PG
| Topics | Sub-Topics |
| BASICS | Mental status examination, higher mental functions, levels of insight |
| Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders | Schneiderian First Rank Symptoms, Epidemiology of schizophrenia, negative symptoms, prognosis, side effects of antipsychotics,delusional disorder, capgras and fregoli syndrome (including images) |
| Mood disorder | Atypical depression, cognitive theory of depression, cognitive triad, Tricyclic antidepressants and their side effects, treatment of bipolar disorder, Lithium, suicide, risk factors for suicide, post part depression |
| Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders | Differential diagnosis of panic disorder, criterion of obsessions, treatment of OCD, PTSD, conversion disorder, stages of death and dying |
| Substance-related and Addictive disorders | Criterion for dependence, withdrawal symptoms of alcohol, wenicke’s korsakoff syndrome, withdrawal symptoms of opioids, maintenance treatment of opioids, management of tobacco dependence, varenicline |
| Organic mental disorders | symptoms of delirium, alzheimer disease neuropathology, Mini mental status examination |
| Personality disorders | Personality traits, Borderline Personality disorder, Obsessive compulsive personality disorder, Type A, B and D personality |
| Eating disorder | Difference between anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa |
| Sleep disorder | EEG findings in stages of sleep, narcolepsy, parasomnias |
| Sexual disorders | Gender identity disorder, premature ejaculation, diagnosis and treatment of erectile dysfunction |
| Child Psychiatry | Management of ADHD, clinical diagnosis of autism, tic disorder including tourette’s syndrome |
| Psychoanalysis | Structural and topographical theory of mind, abreaction, dream work, defence mechanisms, defence mechanisms in psychiatric disorders |
| Miscellaneous | Electroconvulsive therapy, cognitive development stages, operant conditioning |
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