Prite 2019 - Part 1 Questions & Answers 100% Correct!!
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Which if the following findings on the mental status exam of a psychiatric patient is the strongest predictor of inability to make medical decisions?
A. Lack of insight
B. Poor judgement
C. Suicidal ideation
D. Perceptual disturbances
E. Abnormal thought content - ANSWERA
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Prite 2019 - Part 1 Questions & Answers
100% Correct!!
Which if the following findings on the mental status exam of a psychiatric patient is the strongest
predictor of inability to make medical decisions?
A. Lack of insight
B. Poor judgement
C. Suicidal ideation
D. Perceptual disturbances
E. Abnormal thought content - ANSWERA
Pedigree-based approaches are most powerful for identifying what type of gene variant?
A. Copy number
B. Rare high penetrance
C. Simple tandem repeat
D. Common low penetrance
E. Single nucleotide polymorphism - ANSWERB
Which of the following cognitive responses to environmental stimuli has been found to be more
characteristic of patients with anxiety disorders when compared to patients with depression?
A. Misattributions regarding stimuli
B. Hopelessness regarding meaning of stimuli
C. Automatic negative thoughts toward the stimuli
D. Attentional bias toward potentially threatening stimuli
E. Lack of awareness of physiological responses to stimuli - ANSWERD
SKIP - ANSWER
,Which of the following instructions can enhance hypoactive DTR in the leg?
A. Clench a first
B. Elevate an arm
C. Stare at a distant object
D. Think of moving the limb
E. Sensory stimulation of the opposite limb - ANSWERA
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for the treatment of unipolar depression targets which
of the following brain regions?
A. Ventral striatum
B. Locus coeruleus
C. Periamygdaloid cortex
D. Medial temporal cortex
E. Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex - ANSWERE
What is the leading cause of death in persons with severe mental illness?
A. Cancer
B. Suicide
C. Diabetes
D. Accidents
E. Cardiovascular disease - ANSWERE
Which of the following medications is most effective for migraine prophylaxis?
A. Sumitriptan
B. Topiramate
C. Fluoxetine
D. Duloxetine
E. Naproxen - ANSWERB
Which of the following epigenetic mechanisms inhibits the transcriptional machinery from accessing
DNA and thus leads to decreased gene transcription?
A. Acetylation
,B. Methylation
C. Demethylation
D. Histone modification
E. Chromatin remodeling - ANSWERB
Patients with which of the following neurocognitive disorders are more likely to develop severe
extrapyramidal side effects from antipsychotic medications?
A. Prior disease
B. Alzheimer disease
C. Lewy body disease
D. Cerebrovascular disease
E. Frontotemporal lobar degeneration - ANSWERC
Which of the following is the strongest risk factor for development of chronic daily headache in
adults?
A. Obesity
B. Depression
C. Medication overuse
D. Low socioeconomic status
E. Older age of onset of headaches - ANSWERC
Which of the following neurotransmitters is predominantly inhibitory?
A. Norepinephrine
B. Glutamate
C. Dopamine
D. Tyrosine
E. Glycine - ANSWERE
Maintenance of wakefulness is dependent on which of the following areas of the brain?
A. Oral pontine
B. Midbrain tegmentum
C. Posterior hypothalamus
, D. Anterior cingulate parietal cortex
E. Ascending reticular activating system - ANSWERE
Which of the following signs or symptoms is necessary to make a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa?
A. Amenorrhea
B. Perfectionistic behaviors
C. Intense fear of gaining weight
D. Body mass index less than 20
E. A subjective felling of loss of control while eating - ANSWERC
When a child reaches the stage of formal operations, which of the following is a new cognitive
capacity gained?
A. Centration
B. Abstraction
C. Reversibility
D. Egocentrism
E. Object permanence - ANSWERB
A 25-year-old with a history of developmental delays presents for evaluation of anger outbursts.
Prior karyotyping has demonstrated a microdeletion of genetic material. This finding is most likely to
be seen in which of the following disorders?
A. Phenylketonuria
B. Down syndrome
C. Tuberous sclerosis
D. Fragile X syndrome
E. Prader-Willi syndrome - ANSWERE
Which of the following areas are connected by the stria terminalis?
A Broca's and Wernike's area
B Hippocampus and subgenual cingulate
C Lateral habenular and ventral tegmental area
D Amygdala to the medial dorsal thalamic nucleus
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