Psychiatry Question Bank Q8

  1. A characteristics of neurotic depression include:

A. Recurrent short hypomanic episodes

B. A sustained, low-level intensity of mood

C. Unresponsiveness to therapy

D. A lack of psychotic symptoms

  1. Which of the following statements concerning paranoid schizophrenia are correct?

A. The diseased patients rapidly lose their social abilities

B. The onset is earlier as compared to that in other diagnostic subgroups

C. The decline in cognitive functions is more rapid as compared to that in other diagnostic subgroups

D. Hallucinations and delusions of grandeur are common manifestations