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The images list psychiatry PYQ topics from 2018-2025. Since a complete note set would be very large, here is a high-yield map arranged for NEET PG revision:

Mental status examination and psychopathology
Delirium and CAM, delirium vs dementia, formal thought disorder and derailment, delusional perception, Capgras syndrome, command hallucinations, confabulation, Ganser syndrome.
Mood disorders and peripartum psychiatry
Depression criteria and treatment, psychotic depression, melancholia, grief vs depression, mania, postpartum blues and postpartum mood disorders.
Anxiety, OCD, trauma, dissociation and somatoform disorders
Panic attack/disorder, GAD, phobias, PTSD and acute stress disorder, OCD prognosis, OCPD, conversion disorder, dissociative fugue, body dysmorphic disorder.
Sleep, learning and psychotherapy
Sleep stages and EEG, NREM/REM phenomena, caffeine and wakefulness, restless legs syndrome, learning domains, psychotherapy.
Substance-use disorders
Nicotine cessation and varenicline, alcohol withdrawal and delirium tremens, Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, cocaine, common substances of abuse.
Psychopharmacology
Antipsychotic adverse effects, tardive dyskinesia management, lithium toxicity.
Sexual, eating and personality disorders
Sexual response cycle, orgasmic disorder, premature ejaculation, bulimia nervosa, antisocial personality disorder, conduct disorder.
Other repeatedly examinable areas
Intellectual disability, psychiatric manifestations of endocrine disorders, Mental Healthcare Act advance directive.

High-yield pattern: depression/peripartum disorders, anxiety-spectrum disorders, substance use, delirium, and adverse effects of psychotropic medicines recur most often.

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The images list psychiatry PYQ topics from 2018-2025. Since a complete note set would be very large, here is a high-yield map arranged for NEET PG revision:

Mental status examination and psychopathology
Delirium and CAM, delirium vs dementia, formal thought disorder and derailment, delusional perception, Capgras syndrome, command hallucinations, confabulation, Ganser syndrome.
Mood disorders and peripartum psychiatry
Depression criteria and treatment, psychotic depression, melancholia, grief vs depression, mania, postpartum blues and postpartum mood disorders.
Anxiety, OCD, trauma, dissociation and somatoform disorders
Panic attack/disorder, GAD, phobias, PTSD and acute stress disorder, OCD prognosis, OCPD, conversion disorder, dissociative fugue, body dysmorphic disorder.
Sleep, learning and psychotherapy
Sleep stages and EEG, NREM/REM phenomena, caffeine and wakefulness, restless legs syndrome, learning domains, psychotherapy.
Substance-use disorders
Nicotine cessation and varenicline, alcohol withdrawal and delirium tremens, Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, cocaine, common substances of abuse.
Psychopharmacology
Antipsychotic adverse effects, tardive dyskinesia management, lithium toxicity.
Sexual, eating and personality disorders
Sexual response cycle, orgasmic disorder, premature ejaculation, bulimia nervosa, antisocial personality disorder, conduct disorder.
Other repeatedly examinable areas
Intellectual disability, psychiatric manifestations of endocrine disorders, Mental Healthcare Act advance directive.

High-yield pattern: depression/peripartum disorders, anxiety-spectrum disorders, substance use, delirium, and adverse effects of psychotropic medicines recur most often.The uploaded list covers Psychiatry NEET PG PYQs (2018-2025). For efficient preparation, study them in these clusters:

Psychopathology and MSE
- Delirium, CAM, delirium vs dementia
- Formal thought disorder: derailment
- Delusions: Capgras syndrome, delusional perception
- Command hallucinations and risk assessment
- Confabulation, Ganser symptom
Mood and peripartum disorders
- Major depressive disorder: criteria, melancholia, psychotic depression, treatment
- Grief vs depression
- Mania
- Postpartum blues, depression and psychosis
Anxiety, OCD, trauma, dissociative and somatoform disorders
- Panic attack and panic disorder
- GAD, phobias
- OCD prognosis
- PTSD vs acute stress disorder
- Conversion disorder, dissociative fugue
- Body dysmorphic disorder
- OCPD
Substance use and psychopharmacology
- Alcohol withdrawal, delirium tremens, Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome
- Cocaine and tobacco cessation: varenicline
- Antipsychotic adverse effects
- Tardive dyskinesia treatment
- Lithium toxicity
Sleep, psychotherapy and learning
- Sleep stages, EEG waves, REM and NREM disorders
- Somnambulism, restless legs syndrome
- Caffeine and wakefulness
- Learning domains, psychomotor learning
- Psychotherapy
Sexual, eating and disruptive/personality disorders
- Sexual response cycle, orgasmic disorder, premature ejaculation
- Bulimia nervosa
- Antisocial personality disorder, conduct disorder
Miscellaneous
- Intellectual disability
- Psychiatric manifestations of endocrine disorders
- Mental Healthcare Act: advance directive

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Psychiatry Differentials and Mnemonics for NEET PG

1. Acute confusional states and cognitive disorders

Feature	Delirium	Dementia	Depression with pseudodementia
Onset	Acute, hours to days	Insidious, months to years	Often subacute
Course	Fluctuating, worse at night	Progressive, relatively stable during day	Variable
Consciousness	Impaired	Clear until late	Clear
Attention	Impaired early	Usually preserved early	May appear impaired due to poor effort
Orientation	Disoriented early	Disoriented late	Usually intact
Hallucinations	Common, especially visual	Uncommon until late	Absent
Sleep-wake cycle	Disturbed	Usually preserved early	May have early morning awakening
Patient response	Often unconcerned or confused	May confabulate	Emphasizes deficits: “I don’t know”
Reversibility	Usually reversible if cause treated	Usually irreversible/progressive	Reversible with treatment

Mnemonic: Delirium = “D-A-V-E”

Disturbed attention
Acute onset
Visual hallucinations
Ebbing and flowing course

CAM: Confusion Assessment Method

Acute onset and fluctuating course
Inattention
Disorganized thinking
Altered level of consciousness

Diagnosis: 1 + 2 + either 3 or 4.

2. Delirium tremens vs alcohol hallucinosis vs Wernicke encephalopathy

Feature	Delirium tremens	Alcoholic hallucinosis	Wernicke encephalopathy
Typical timing after stopping alcohol	48-96 hours	12-24 hours	During malnutrition/chronic alcohol use
Sensorium	Clouded	Clear	Confused
Hallucinations	Visual/tactile, often insects	Predominantly auditory	Not typical
Autonomic overactivity	Marked: tremor, sweating, tachycardia, fever	Mild or absent	May occur
Key signs	Agitation, tremulousness, seizures possible	Patient may retain insight	Ophthalmoplegia/nystagmus, ataxia
Treatment principle	Benzodiazepines + thiamine	Antipsychotic if needed, manage withdrawal	IV thiamine before glucose

Mnemonic: Wernicke = “CAN”

Confusion
Ataxia
Nystagmus/ophthalmoplegia

Korsakoff syndrome: severe anterograde amnesia + confabulation, due to thiamine deficiency, commonly follows untreated Wernicke encephalopathy.

3. Major depressive episode vs grief vs adjustment disorder

Feature	Major depressive disorder	Normal grief/bereavement	Adjustment disorder
Trigger	May occur with or without trigger	Death/loss	Identifiable stressor
Mood	Persistent depressed mood/anhedonia	Comes in waves or “pangs”	Distress related to stressor
Duration	At least 2 weeks	Gradually improves	Begins within 3 months of stressor
Self-esteem	Worthlessness, excessive guilt	Usually preserved	Usually preserved
Suicidality	May be present	Thoughts of joining deceased may occur, but pervasive death wish suggests MDD	Variable
Psychomotor retardation	May occur	Uncommon	Uncommon
Function	Markedly impaired	Variable	Impaired but does not meet criteria for another disorder

Mnemonic: Depression = “SIGECAPS”

Sleep change
Interest loss
Guilt/worthlessness
Energy loss
Concentration poor
Appetite/weight change
Psychomotor change
Suicidal ideation

For MDD: at least 5 symptoms, including depressed mood or anhedonia, for at least 2 weeks.

4. Melancholic depression vs atypical depression

Feature	Melancholic features	Atypical features
Mood reactivity	Absent	Present
Anhedonia	Marked	Less prominent
Sleep	Early morning awakening	Hypersomnia
Appetite	Decreased	Increased
Weight	Loss	Gain
Psychomotor activity	Agitation or retardation	May have leaden paralysis
Diurnal variation	Worse in morning	Often worse in evening
Sensitivity to rejection	Not characteristic	Prominent

Mnemonic: Atypical = “LASH”

Leaden paralysis
Appetite increased
Sleep increased
Hypersensitivity to rejection

5. Unipolar depression vs bipolar depression

Feature	Unipolar depression	Bipolar depression
Age at onset	Usually later	Earlier onset
Family history	Depression	Bipolar disorder
Episodes	Fewer, longer	More frequent, often shorter
Psychotic features	Less frequent	More frequent
Atypical symptoms	Less common	Hypersomnia, hyperphagia common
Antidepressant response	Usually safe with monitoring	May trigger mania/hypomania
History of mania/hypomania	Absent	Present

Exam clue: Before prescribing an antidepressant in depression, screen for past mania/hypomania, family history of bipolar disorder, antidepressant-induced activation, and episodic increased energy with reduced sleep.

6. Mania vs hypomania

Feature	Mania	Hypomania
Minimum duration	At least 1 week, or any duration if hospitalized	At least 4 consecutive days
Severity	Marked functional impairment	No marked impairment
Hospitalization	May be required	Not required
Psychosis	May be present	Absent by definition
Functional state	Severe disruption	Observable change but functioning not severely impaired

Mnemonic: Mania = “DIG FAST”

Distractibility
Indiscretion/impulsivity
Grandiosity
Flight of ideas
Activity increased/agitation
Sleep need decreased
Talkativeness/pressured speech

7. Panic attack vs panic disorder vs GAD

Feature	Panic attack	Panic disorder	Generalized anxiety disorder
Core feature	Sudden intense fear/discomfort	Recurrent unexpected panic attacks	Excessive, difficult-to-control worry
Time course	Peaks within minutes	At least 1 month of concern/behavioral change after attacks	At least 6 months
Trigger	May be expected or unexpected	Attacks are unexpected	Multiple everyday concerns
Symptoms	Palpitations, dyspnea, chest pain, fear of dying	Same plus anticipatory anxiety/avoidance	Tension, irritability, fatigue, poor concentration
Key exam point	A symptom, not necessarily a disorder	Recurrent and unexpected attacks	Persistent free-floating anxiety

Panic attack symptoms: “CHILLS”

Choking/chest pain
Hot flushes
Intense fear of dying/losing control
Light-headedness
Lack of breath
Sweating, shaking, sense of unreality

GAD mnemonic: “RESTLESS”

Restlessness
Easily fatigued
Sleep disturbance
Tension in muscles
Lack of concentration
Easily irritable
Six months
Several domains of worry

8. OCD vs obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

Feature	OCD	OCPD
Symptoms	Obsessions and/or compulsions	Perfectionism, orderliness, control
Ego-dystonic or ego-syntonic?	Ego-dystonic	Ego-syntonic
Insight	Usually present	Often poor
Anxiety	Marked anxiety from intrusive thoughts	Anxiety when control/order is disrupted
Compulsions	Repetitive acts to neutralize anxiety	No true compulsions
Example	“I know hand washing is excessive, but cannot stop.”	“My method is correct. Others are careless.”
Treatment	CBT with exposure-response prevention, SSRI	Psychotherapy, address personality traits

Mnemonic:

OCD = “Ouch, I Can’t stop Doing it.” It is distressing and unwanted.
OCPD = “Order, Control, Perfectionism, Discipline.”

9. PTSD vs acute stress disorder vs adjustment disorder

Feature	Acute stress disorder	PTSD	Adjustment disorder
Stressor	Trauma involving actual/threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence	Same	Any identifiable stressor
Onset/duration	3 days to 1 month after trauma	More than 1 month	Within 3 months of stressor
Symptoms	Intrusion, negative mood, dissociation, avoidance, arousal	Intrusion, avoidance, negative cognition/mood, arousal	Distress or impaired functioning without full ASD/PTSD criteria
Dissociation	Particularly prominent	May occur, not essential	Not typical
Diagnosis after 1 month	PTSD if criteria fulfilled	PTSD	May persist up to 6 months after stressor ends

Mnemonic: PTSD = “R-A-N-A”

Re-experiencing
Avoidance
Negative cognition/mood
Arousal/reactivity

Timing pearl:

< 1 month: acute stress disorder
> 1 month: PTSD

10. Dissociative fugue vs dissociative amnesia vs malingering

Feature	Dissociative fugue	Dissociative amnesia	Malingering
Memory loss	Autobiographical memory loss	Important autobiographical information	Claimed, intentional
Travel/wandering	Present	Absent	May be fabricated
New identity	May occur	Absent	Not genuine
External incentive	None	None	Present, such as money, avoidance of work/legal duty
Intentional production	No	No	Yes

Mnemonic: Fugue = “Flight from identity.”

11. Somatic symptom disorder vs illness anxiety disorder vs conversion disorder

Feature	Somatic symptom disorder	Illness anxiety disorder	Conversion disorder
Somatic symptoms	One or more distressing symptoms are present	Absent or mild	Neurological-type symptom
Main preoccupation	Symptoms and their consequences	Fear of having/acquiring serious illness	Functional neurological deficit
Health anxiety	Present	Marked, central symptom	May show relative indifference
Examples	Chronic pain with excessive thoughts and behaviors	Repeated fear of cancer despite reassurance	Non-anatomical paralysis, psychogenic blindness
Intentional production	No	No	No

Mnemonic:

Somatic symptom disorder: “Symptoms are substantial.”
Illness anxiety disorder: “Illness fear is substantial.”
Conversion disorder: “Function is converted into a neurological deficit.”

12. Schizophrenia vs brief psychotic disorder vs schizophreniform disorder

Feature	Brief psychotic disorder	Schizophreniform disorder	Schizophrenia
Duration	At least 1 day, less than 1 month	1-6 months	At least 6 months
Recovery	Full return to premorbid functioning	May or may not recover	Often chronic functional decline
Functional decline	Not necessary	Not necessary	May occur
Psychotic symptoms	Delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech/behavior	Same	Same, with duration criterion

Mnemonic: “1 day, 1 month, 6 months”

Brief psychotic disorder: 1 day to <1 month
Schizophreniform: 1-6 months
Schizophrenia: ≥6 months

13. Schizophrenia vs mood disorder with psychotic features vs schizoaffective disorder

Feature	Schizophrenia	Mood disorder with psychotic features	Schizoaffective disorder
Mood episode	May occur but is brief relative to psychosis	Present throughout illness	Present for majority of illness
Psychosis without mood symptoms	Present	Absent	Present for at least 2 weeks
Main illness pattern	Predominantly psychotic	Predominantly mood disorder	Both significant mood and psychotic illness

Mnemonic: Schizoaffective = “2 weeks psychosis alone.”

14. Delusion vs overvalued idea vs obsession

Feature	Delusion	Overvalued idea	Obsession
Belief	False, fixed, not culturally shared	Unreasonable but understandable belief	Recurrent intrusive thought/impulse/image
Conviction	Absolute	Strong but potentially modifiable	Patient recognizes it as irrational
Resistance	No resistance	Minimal resistance	Actively resisted
Ego-dystonic	No	Usually no	Yes
Example	“Neighbors control my thoughts.”	“Organic food is the only safe food.”	“My hands are contaminated despite knowing they are clean.”

Mnemonic: Obsession = “Intrusive, Irrational, Insightful.”

15. Delusional perception vs hallucination vs illusion

Phenomenon	Definition	Example
Illusion	Misinterpretation of a real external stimulus	Sees a rope and mistakes it for a snake
Hallucination	Perception without external stimulus	Hears a voice when nobody is present
Delusional perception	A normal perception given a sudden, false, idiosyncratic meaning	Sees a red car and believes it proves he is the chosen one

Mnemonic:

Illusion: “Input exists, interpretation is wrong.”
Hallucination: “No input exists.”
Delusional perception: “Input is normal, meaning is delusional.”

16. Common hallucination patterns

Disorder/condition	Typical hallucination
Delirium	Visual, often small animals/insects
Alcohol withdrawal	Visual and tactile, formication
Schizophrenia	Auditory, third-person voices, running commentary
Depression with psychosis	Mood-congruent auditory hallucinations
Parkinson disease/Lewy body dementia	Visual hallucinations
Charles Bonnet syndrome	Visual hallucinations in visual impairment, insight preserved
Peduncular hallucinosis	Vivid visual hallucinations due to midbrain/thalamic lesion

Mnemonic: “Visual = organic until proven otherwise.”

17. Antipsychotic adverse effects: differentiation

Adverse effect	Typical onset	Clinical features	Key management
Acute dystonia	Hours to days	Torticollis, oculogyric crisis, laryngospasm	Anticholinergic: benztropine/trihexyphenidyl
Akathisia	Days to weeks	Inner restlessness, inability to sit still	Reduce dose, propranolol, benzodiazepine
Drug-induced parkinsonism	Weeks to months	Tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia	Anticholinergic or amantadine
Tardive dyskinesia	Months to years	Orofacial choreoathetoid movements	Reduce/switch drug, VMAT2 inhibitor
Neuroleptic malignant syndrome	Days to weeks	Fever, rigidity, autonomic instability, raised CK	Stop drug, supportive care, dantrolene/bromocriptine

Mnemonic: “D-A-P-T” for EPS timing

Dystonia: Days
Akathisia: Around weeks
Parkinsonism: Prolonged weeks-months
Tardive dyskinesia: Takes years

NMS = “FARM”

Fever
Autonomic instability
Rigidity
Mental-status change

18. NMS vs serotonin syndrome vs malignant hyperthermia

Feature	NMS	Serotonin syndrome	Malignant hyperthermia
Trigger	Dopamine antagonist or withdrawal of dopaminergic drug	Serotonergic drugs	Succinylcholine or volatile anesthetics
Onset	Days to weeks	Hours	During/soon after anesthesia
Neuromuscular signs	Lead-pipe rigidity, hyporeflexia	Hyperreflexia, clonus, tremor	Generalized rigidity
GI symptoms	Less prominent	Diarrhea, hyperactive bowel sounds common	Not typical
Antidote	Dantrolene, bromocriptine	Cyproheptadine	Dantrolene

Mnemonic:

Serotonin syndrome = “Wet and twitchy”: sweating, diarrhea, clonus.
NMS = “Dry and rigid.”

19. Postpartum blues vs postpartum depression vs postpartum psychosis

Feature	Postpartum blues	Postpartum depression	Postpartum psychosis
Onset	2-3 days after delivery	Usually within weeks to months	Often within 2 weeks
Frequency	Very common	Common	Rare
Symptoms	Tearfulness, irritability, emotional lability	MDD symptoms, impaired bonding, guilt	Delusions, hallucinations, mania/depression, confusion
Duration	Resolves within 2 weeks	More than 2 weeks	Acute emergency
Management	Reassurance/support	Psychotherapy, antidepressant as indicated	Urgent psychiatric admission and treatment

Mnemonic: “Blues are brief, psychosis is perilous.”

20. Anorexia nervosa vs bulimia nervosa vs binge-eating disorder

Feature	Anorexia nervosa	Bulimia nervosa	Binge-eating disorder
Weight	Low body weight	Usually normal weight	Often overweight/obesity
Binge eating	May occur in binge-purge subtype	Present	Present
Compensatory behavior	May occur	Present: vomiting, laxatives, fasting, exercise	Absent
Body image disturbance	Present	Present	Usually present
Physical signs	Bradycardia, amenorrhea, lanugo	Dental enamel erosion, parotid enlargement, Russell sign	Metabolic complications
Key risk	Highest mortality among psychiatric disorders	Electrolyte disturbance, especially hypokalemia	Obesity-related complications

Mnemonic: Bulimia = “Binge, then Behaviors to compensate.”

21. Antisocial personality disorder vs conduct disorder

Feature	Conduct disorder	Antisocial personality disorder
Age	Childhood/adolescence	Age 18 years or older
Core pattern	Repetitive violation of rights/rules	Disregard for and violation of others’ rights
Requirement for ASPD	Not applicable	Evidence of conduct disorder before age 15
Examples	Aggression, property destruction, theft, serious rule violations	Deceitfulness, impulsivity, irresponsibility, lack of remorse

Mnemonic: ASPD requires “18 + CD before 15.”

Rapid NEET PG one-liners

Question clue	Likely answer
Acute onset, fluctuating attention, visual hallucinations	Delirium
Memory loss with wandering and new identity	Dissociative fugue
Normal perception assigned bizarre meaning	Delusional perception
Psychosis lasting 1-6 months	Schizophreniform disorder
Psychosis alone for 2 weeks plus mood episodes for much of illness	Schizoaffective disorder
Trauma symptoms for less than 1 month	Acute stress disorder
Panic attacks plus 1 month worry/avoidance	Panic disorder
Ego-syntonic perfectionism and control	OCPD
Intrusive unwanted thoughts relieved by rituals	OCD
Fever, lead-pipe rigidity, elevated CK after antipsychotic	NMS
Hyperreflexia and clonus after serotonergic drug	Serotonin syndrome
Emotional lability within days of delivery and resolving by 2 weeks	Postpartum blues
Binge eating with purging at normal body weight	Bulimia nervosa

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These images cover Forensic Medicine and Toxicology NEET PG PYQs from 2018-2025. A full detailed note set would be large, so study them as these high-yield modules:

Postmortem changes and time since death
- Rigor mortis, putrefaction and its order
- Adipocere, mummification and mummified-body odour
- Early postmortem changes
- Diatom test
Mechanical injuries and asphyxial deaths
- Lacerated vs incised wound
- Defence wounds
- Diffuse axonal injury
- Smothering, throttling, ligature strangulation
- Drowning
- Zaslo/Zasko wound phenomenon
Firearm injuries
- Range of gunshot
- Features of entry and exit wounds
- Gunshot injury interpretation
Toxicology
- Arsenic, acute arsenic poisoning
- Datura, Semecarpus anacardium and plant poisons
- Cocaine, thallium, iron, methanol, ethylene glycol poisoning
- Snakebite
- Gastric lavage contraindications and chemical-analysis preservatives
Medicolegal law and ethics
- Informed consent and minor consent under POCSO
- Definition of child under POCSO
- Criminal negligence, onus of proof, perjury
- Cross-examination, in-camera trial
- IPC/evidence, BNS Section 30
- Goals-of-care discussion in futile treatment
- Mental Healthcare Act admission provisions
Sexual offences and reproductive medicolegal issues
- Sexual assault/rape examination
- Detection of sperm and types of hymen
- Superfecundation and superfetation
- Posthumous child
- Postpartum changes
- Paraphilias: exhibitionism and transvestic fetishism
Identification and age estimation
- Fingerprints, tattoo identification
- Age estimation, including wrist radiology
- Locard’s exchange principle
- Barberio test
Environmental and miscellaneous forensic topics
- Battered baby syndrome
- Heat stroke
- Nyctophobia
- Shelter-in-place during a chemical leak
- Saturnine gout and Magnan symptom

Most repeatedly tested areas: toxicology, postmortem changes, medicolegal consent/sexual offences, injury patterns, and firearm injuries.

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