FINAL EXAM NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS
APRIL 2016
POSSESSION USE OF CELL PHONES OR ANY SUCH ELECTRONIC GADGETS IS NOT PERMITTED INSIDE THE
EXAMINATION HALL.
PSYCHIATRY
PAPER II
PSY/APRIL/16/39/II
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. Define personality disorder.
How personality disorders are classified in DSM
Write main clinical features of borderline personality
disorder and its treatment.

2. Define dementia.
Enumerate common causes of cortical and sub-cortical
dementias.
Differentiate between cortical and sub-cortical dementias.

3. What are the essential features of PTSD diagnosis?
Clinical features and treatment of PTSD.
3+7
4. Define treatment resistant obsessive compulsive disorder
(OCD).
How would manage a case of treatment resistant OCD?
2+8
5. What is the difference between alcohol misuse and
dependence?
Discuss any three nutritional disorders/neurological
conditions associated with alcoholism.

6. What is dissociative amnesia? Write its clinical features and
management.
3+7
7. Components of psychosocial treatment in schizophrenia.
10
8. What is tardive dyskinesia
Management of TD.
2+8
9. What is atypical depression?
Its clinical features and related conceptual issues.
How would you manage it?

10. Clinical features, differential diagnosis and management of
delusional disorder.