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 I
PSY/APRIL/16/39/I
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 Evidence-based Medicine?
What are the different kinds of evidence and their
hierarchy?
What are the applications of Evidence-based Medicine?

2. What do you understand by the self-actualization theory
of Maslow?
What are its implications in practice?
7+3
3. What are the principles of classifications in Psychiatry?
Principles of contemporary classifications in psychiatry
and its purpose.
3+7
4. What is genetic epidemiology? Describe three types of
genetic studies related to it.

5. Define defense mechanism and its purposes.
Defense mechanisms used in obsessive compulsive
disorder.
3+7
6. Define grief, bereavement and mourning.
Stages of grief.
3+7
7. Enumerate the functions of frontal lobe. Write the clinical
features of frontal lobe syndromes.
4+6
8. Major dopaminengic pathways of human brain.
Implications and relevance of dopamine in Psychiatry.
4+6
9. Differentiate between sensation and perception.
Define hallucination and give its differentiations from
normal percept.
What is the clinical significance of pareidolia?

10. What are NMDA receptors? Describe their location and
functions.
What is their relevance to Schizophrenia?
6+4