FINAL EXAM NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS
DECEMBER 2016
POSSESSION USE OF CELL PHONES OR ANY SUCH ELECTRONIC GADGETS IS NOT PERMITTED INSIDE THE
EXAMINATION HALL.
PSYCHIATRY
PAPER IV
PSY/D/16/39/IV
Time 3 hours
Max. Marks 100
Important instructions:
• Attempt all questions in order.
• Each question carries 10 marks.
• Read the question carefully and answer to the point neatly and legibly.
• Do not leave any blank pages between two answers.
• Indicate the question number correctly for the answer in the margin space.
• Answer all the parts of a single question together.
• Start the answer to a question on a fresh page or leave adequate space between two answers.
• Draw table/diagrams/flowcharts wherever appropriate.
Write short notes on:
1. What is metabolic syndrome? Give its relationship and
significance with antipsychotic drugs.
5+5
2. What are the advantages of MRI over SPECT? What is the role
of SPECT in psychiatry?
4+6
3. Categorical v/s dimensional approach in classification.
Classificatory approach adopted by DSM-5.
6+4
4. Salient features of Mental Health Care Bill.
What are its advantages over its predecessor mental health
Act?
7+3
5. What is stigma in psychiatry? As a psychiatrist, how can you
help to reduce and combat stigma in psychiatry.
3+7
6. What is Evidence-Based Medicine? What are the key skills
required for the evidence based practice and what are the various
methods of its practice?

7. What is pharmacogenetics?
Its current concept and possible future use with reference to
psychiatry.

8. What is the current understanding of relationship between
personality disorders and other mental disorders?
Nosological status of Schizotypal personality disorder in ICD-
10 and DSM-IV.
6+4
9. What is culture?
Role of culture in psychiatry.
2+8
10. What are neurodevelopmental disorders? What are the reasons
for including ADHD in this category?
6+4