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SPMM Practice Questions WITH Solutions (2024 Set 1)Features of late onset schizophrenia Right Ans - fewer negative symptoms
affects females more
infrequent formal thought disorder
prominent hallucinations (visual)
White matter hyper-intensities are not associated with late-onset
schizophrenia
Association with late onset schizophrenia Right Ans - social isolation
sensory impairment
premorbid paranoid personality traits
Trail making test (TMT) Right Ans - measures central executive functioning
Part A - draw a line to connect consecutive numbers 1 to 25, tests visual
screening, processing speed and attention
Part B - connects alternating numbers and letters in alternating progressive
sequence, testing central executive processes of task-set inhibition, cognitive
flexibility and ability to maintain a response set
Time difference between task B and A = executive functioning
Most common presenting feature of Parkinsons Right Ans - unilateral
tremor
PITS Right Ans - parietal lesion = inferior VF defect
temporal lesion = superior VF defect
Manifestations of obsessions Right Ans - intrusive, unwanted thoughts,
impulses or mental images of committing an act that the subject considers to
be harmful, violent, immoral, sexually inappropriate or sacrilegious
recurrent and stereotyped
Stereotypy Right Ans - repetitive functionless (NON goal directed) motor
behaviour
, hemiballism Right Ans - hyperkinetic movement disorder characterised by
violent involuntary proximal limb movements on one side of body
Caused by damage to subthalamic nuclei of basal ganglia
unrelated to schizophrenia
ambitendency Right Ans - A motor symptom of schizophrenia in which
there is an alternating mixture of automatic obedience and negativism eg
asked to shake hand and extends and withdraws repeatedly
ambivalence Right Ans - described by bleuler as one of 4 primary
symptoms of schizophrenia - having positive and negative symptoms at the
same time, often have inability to decide on an action
mannerisms Right Ans - repetitive, goal-directed movements eg saluting
synaesthesia Right Ans - described by Sims
phenomenon of perceiving a stimulus of one modality in a different modality
eg tasting music
not a hallucination
reflex hallucinations Right Ans - hallucinatory form of synaesthesia
simulus in one modality produces a hallucination in another modality
tangentality Right Ans - organised speech but not goal directed
subject answers a question in an indirect manner with vague relevance
answer appears distant and drifted away from original goal
moria Right Ans - tendency to be inappropriately euphoric
occurs with right frontotemporal lesions and in frontotemporal dementia
Witzelsucht Right Ans - tendency to tell inappropriate jokes
occurs with right frontotemporal lesions and in frontotemporal dementia
verbigeration Right Ans - senseless repetition of sound, words or phrases
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