Teaching Department of Psychiatry
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Raboch J., Pavlovský P., et al.: Basic Psychopathological Terms and
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The ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders. WHO,
Geneve, 1992.
IV. YEAR - EXAM QUESTIONS FOR THE PSYCHIATRY
General Psychiatry
1. History of Psychiatry (care about mentally sick people in ancient Egypt,
Hippokrates, Avicenna, witchcraft trials, P. Pinel, S. Freud; - psychiatric
hospitals, out-patient’s care, community care)
2. Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders (family, twin, adoption studies, genetic
linkage analysis)
3. Psychological and Social Theories of Mental Disorders (S. Freud defense mechanisms -repression, regression, projection, denial,
sublimation; C. Jung, A. Adler)
4. Social Psychiatry (out-patient’s care, community care, half way houses,
protected workshops, etc.)
5. Neurobiology (prefrontal cortex, subcortical grey matter, limbic system)
6. Behavioural Development (motor, adaptive, language, social landmarks)
7. Disorders of Personality
8. Consciousness and its Disorders
9. Drives and Instincts and their Disorders
10. Emotions and their Disorders
11. Thinking and its Disorders
12. Perception and its Disorders
13. Memory and its Disorders
14. Acting, Behaviour and Volition and their Disorders
15. Intelligence and its Disorders
16. Electroconvulsive Treatment (ECT), Phototherapy, Sleep deprivation,
Transcranial magnetic stimulation.
17. Psychotherapy - Basic Schools (psychoanalytically oriented,
interpersonal, cognitive, existential)
18. Clinical Psychiatric Examination and Assessment
19. Transcultural Psychiatry - (specific culturally bound mental disorders,
international studies, immigrants)
20. Imaging Methods in Psychiatry (CT, MRI, SPECT, PET)
21. Methods of Psychotherapy (rational, suggestive, hypnotic, family,
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individual, group psychother., autogenic training, psychotherapeutic
approach)
Personality, Typology (Hippocrates, Kretschmer, Jung, Pavlov, Sheldon)
Approach to a Mentally Sick Patient
Psychological Assessment and Tests
Biochemical Tests in Psychiatry (serum concentration of drugs,
metabolites of neurotransmitters - HVA, 5-HIAA, MHPG),
dexamethazone suppression test, fenfluramine test. Lithium serum
concentration…
Electroencephalography and Phaloplethysmography in Psychiatry (EEG,
PPG)
Neurotransmitter Systems
Special Psychiatry
1. Classification Systems in Psychiatry (DSM-IV, ICD-10), Psychiatric
Epidemiology
2. Alzheimer’s Disease - Clinical Picture, Treatment
3. Vascular Dementia
4. Amnesic Syndrome, Delirium
5. Dementia due to Infectious Diseases (Neurosyphilis, AIDS, etc.)
6. Dementia due to metabolic, toxic and brain injury damage
7. Mental Disorders in Systemic Diseases ( infectious, metabolic, cardiac,
tumors, etc.)
8. Mental Disorders in Endocrinopathies (diabetes, hyper-, hypothyroidism,
Addison´s Disease, Cushing´s Disease)
9. Mental Disorders due to Alcohol Use
10. Withdrawal State in Alcoholism, its Treatment
11. Treatment of Dependence Sydrome in Alcoholism
12. Mental Disorders due to Use of Opioids and Cannabinoids, Treatment
13. Mental Disorders due to Use of Stimulants, Sedatives and Hypnotics,
Treatment, Risk of Dependence Syndrome
14. Mental Disorders Associated with the Puerperium, Menopause and
Menstrual Cycle
15. Schizophrenia, Clinical Forms
16. Treatment of Schizophrenia
17. Persistent Delusional Disorders, Induced Psychotic Disorder
18. Acute and Transient Psychotic Disorders
19. Schizoaffective Disorders
20. Mood Disorders, Clinical Forms
21. Treatment and Prophylaxis of Mood Disorders
22. Obsessive-compulsive Disorder
23. Phobic and other Anxiety Disorders
24. Reactions to Severe Stress and Adjustment Disorders
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Dissociative (Conversion) Disorders
Somatoform Disorders (somatization, hypochondriacal disorder)
Treatment of Neurotic Disorders
Eating Disorders
Sexual Dysfunctions
Psychosomatic Disorders (cardiovascular, respiratory, GI, etc.)
Specific Personality Disorders
Histrionic Personality Disorder
Gender Identity Disorders (transsexualism, dual-role transvestism)
Disorders of Sexual Preference (fetishism, transvestism, exhibitionism,
voyeurism, paedophilia, sadomasochism,etc.)
Mental Retardation
Disorders of Psychological Development, Pervasive Developmental
Disorders (disorders of speech, scholastic skills, motor functions,
autism)
Schizophrenia and Depression in Childhood
Reactive Attachment Disorder of Childhood, Tic Disorders
Legal Position of Mentally Sick Persons (Declarations of Patients´Rights,
Consent to Hospitalization, to Treatment, etc.)
Forensic Psychiatry (Criminal and Civil Laws- criminal responsibility,
testamentary capacity, etc.)
Suicidology (suic. attempts, completed suicides, psychiatric illness +
suicide, influence of society and age, etc.)
Psychiatric Aspects of Epilepsy
Sleep Disorders, Treatment (insomnia, hypersomnia, sleepwalking, night
terrors, nightmares)
Behavioural Disorders in Childhood (enuresis, encopresis, pica,
stuttering)
Prof. MUDr. J. Raboch, DrSc.
Head of the Psychiatric Dept.
Charles Univ., Prague.