Psychiatry

Topics in Psychiatry

Previous year questions for NEET PG (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test - Postgraduate), from the Psychiatry section of the exam.

Most questions here come from previous-year papers of Indian postgraduate medical entrance and licensing exams; where a paper and year are recorded the question carries them. The image-based questions are original vignettes written around an openly licensed figure, and were never asked in any exam.

Psychiatry is worth about 6 of 300 questions on the exam. See the full NEET PG exam pattern and weightage.

• Personality Theory and Defense Mechanisms
• Psychiatric Signs and Symptoms
• Psychiatric Assessment and Mental Status Examination
• Psychiatric Treatment: Drugs, Psychotherapy and ECT
• Psychiatric Manifestations of Medical Illness
• Schizophrenia
• Delusional and Brief Psychotic Disorders
• Delirium
• Dementia
• Amnestic Syndromes and Related Cognitive Disorders
• Depression
• Bipolar Disorder and Mania
• Alcohol Use Disorder and Withdrawal
• Opioid, Cannabis and Other Drug Use Disorders
• Panic, Phobic and Generalised Anxiety Disorders
• OCD and Related Disorders
• PTSD and Adjustment Disorders
• Personality Disorder Clusters
• Somatic Symptom Disorders
• Factitious Disorder, Malingering and Criminal Behaviour
• Dissociation and Conversion Disorders
• Sleep-Wake Disorders
• Anorexia, Bulimia and Other Eating Disorders
• Disorders of Impulse Control
• Suicide and Psychiatric Emergency Care
• Sexual Response and Sexual Dysfunction
• Paraphilias, Gender Identity and Sexual Abuse
• Intellectual Disability and Learning Disorders
• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• ADHD and Disruptive Behaviour Disorders
• Tic Disorders and Motor Neurodevelopmental Conditions
• Elimination Disorders: Enuresis and Encopresis
• Other Topics in Child Mental Health
• Psychiatry and the Law