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Psychiatry and Law How does one evaluate a patient’s competency to give adequate informed consent? Competency is declared by a court, not a physician. Clinical assessment of capacity to make…

Personality Disorders and Other Clinical Conditions What diagnoses are categorized as somatoform disorders? The following seven diagnoses are offered in DSM-IV under the category of somatoform disorders: Somatization disorder (also…

Psychotic Disorders, Mood Disorders, and Anxiety Disorders How common are the anxiety disorders? The most prevalent psychiatric disorders. Lifetime prevalence of any anxiety: 25%. Lifetime prevalence of social phobia and…

Substance-Related Disorders What does the motivational enhancement therapy (MET) model for addiction treatment emphasize? The role of ambivalence in the process of change. Which substance causes long-term inhibition of new…

Human Development According to whose theory is good-enough mothering important in providing a supportive environment to infants? Good-enough mothering is an essential concept in Donald W. Winnicott’s objectrelation theory. Another…

Cognitive Disorders Damage in which brain region is most likely to result in impaired social judgment? Orbitofrontal area. How does dementia with Lewy bodies differentiate from dementia of Alzheimer type?…

Psychiatric Interview, Symptomatology, and Diagnosis What is delusion? It is fixed, false belief that is unreal, idiosyncratic, and not accepted by other members of the same subcultural background. What was…

Neuroscience How and where is serotonin synthesized? Synthesized from precursor tryptophan. Synthesized in axon terminal (bouton). Cell bodies mainly in median and dorsal raphe nuclei. The rate-limiting factor is availability…

Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Social Psychiatry What is a cohort study? A cohort study is a study that follows a group of subjects chosen from a well-defined population over an extended…

Psychometric and Neuropsychologic Testing What is the best psychologic test to use for assessing possible malingering? Arguably, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), since it has a built-in test detecting…