Organic mental disorders
 Questions
Questions
1. A patient is sleepy, looks a little inattentive. His gait is mildly unstable and
has difficulties in focusing on the examiner. He does not fall asleep while
unattended. What is the name of this kind of alteration of consciousness?
o Drowsiness
o Somnolence
o Sopor
o Coma
2. A patient with severe depression is engaged with his negative thoughts and
he is difficult to distract from them. What is the name of this kind of
alteration of attention?
o Hyperprosexia
o Hypoprosexia
o Hypervigility-hipotenacy
o Hypovigility-hipertenacy
o Aprosexia
3. A patient is able to tell his personal data, is aware of the actual year and the
season. However he is not able to tell the exact date and month. He is
correct regarding the city and the street of the place of the examination, on
the other hand, instead of recognising that he is in a hospital, he says that
we are in the town hall. What is the most correct description of the
patient’s symptoms?
o Auto- and allopsychic disorientation
o Autopsychic disorientation, preserved orientation in time and place
o Preserved autopsychic orientation, partial orientation in time,
disorientation in place, confabulation
o Preserved autopsychic oriantation, disorientation in time and place
o Partial auto-and allopsychic disorientation
4. Dementia can be diagnosed in the following condition:
o Severe decline of one cognitive domain, with impairment of everyday
functioning
o Decline of multiple cognitive domains, with preserved everyday
functioning
o Decline of one cognitive domain, with preserved everyday functioning
o Mild decline of multiple cognitive domains, with impairment of
everyday functioning
5. Disconcertment is observed at a 60-year-old male patient under sick-ward
conditions, he also has fever
Possible diagnosis:
o Organic hallucinosis
o Dementia
o Organic paranoid disorder
o Delirium
o Organic anxiety disorder
Organic mental disorders
 Questions
6. A patient is not fully able to remember, what happened to him in the
morning of the day of the examination.
Possible diagnosis:
o Amnestic disorder
o Dementia
o Delirium
o Mental retardation
o Drowsiness
7. In this form of mental retardation thr IQ is midly below normal, cognitive
funtions can be improved, patients might live on their own with some help,
might work at a protected workplace.
o Autism
o Severe mental retardation
o Mild mental retardation
o Moderate mental retardation
o Down’s disease
8. Common symptom of Alzheimer’s disease:
o Psychomotor retardation
o Forgetfulness
o Disorientation
o Depression
o Loss of insight
o Cortical symptoms
9. Persecutory delusions of an old patient can be caused by:
o schyzophrenia
o delirium
o organic paranoid disorder
o organic anxiety disorder
o Alzheimer’s disease
10. An 80-year old female patient without any history of psychiatric disorders
is seen in the Emergency Unit by her relatives for sudden
"disconcertment". In her case history COPD and high blood pressure are
mentioned. Before coming to the hospital, the patient had fever.
Possible diagnosis:
o Schizophrenia
o Delirium
o Personality disorder
o Depression
o Organic anxiety disorder