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 I
PSY/D/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 do you understand by adoption studies?
Write the different designs of adoption studies with special
relevance to psychiatry.
2+8
2. Name various serotonin pathways in brain and their
significance in Psychiatry.
3+7
3. Define hallucination. Mention its characteristics
differentiating it from true percept.
2+8
4. Various tests of significance and their application in
psychiatry.
5+5
5. Define grief reaction.
Various phases of grief.
2+8
6. What is Kohlberg's theory of moral development?
Its various stages with suitable examples.
2+8
7. Define defense mechanisms. Give their classification and
explain the defence mechanisms used in phobic disorders.

8. Define intelligence. What are the different tests of
intelligence?
2+8
9. What do you understand by Papez's circuit? What is its
importance in psychiatry?
5+5
10. What is second messenger system?
Its significance in Psychiatry.
5+5