Which of the following is NOT a characteristic feature of manic episode?

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic feature of manic episode?

•  Elevated, expansive, irritable mood
•  Thought echo, thought insertion or thought withdrawal
•  Increased psychomotor activities
•  Flight of ideas

______________ is a clinical term used to explain a major depressive disorder superimposed on an underlying dysthymia.

•  Neurotic depression
•  Double depression
•  Secondary depression
•  Agitated depression

Mood-congruent psychotic features in depressed patients include all, EXCEPT:

•  Nihilistic delusions
•  Delusion of love
•  Delusion of guilt
•  Delusion of poverty

Mania represents a ______________ to depression according to psychodynamic theory.

•  Sublimation
•  Reaction formulation
•  Displacement
•  Repression

______________ is a poor prognostic factor in mood disorders.

•  Typical Clinical Features
•  Well-adjusted premorbid-personality
•  Comorbid personality disorders
•  Acute or abrupt onset of illness

___________ is a disorder characterized by persistent depressive features, not amounting to depressive disorder, which last for more than 2 years?

•  Euthymia
•  Dysthymia
•  Cyclothymia
•  Melancholia

Which of the following antidepressant is known for its high anticholinergic side effects?

•  Mirtazapine
•  Sertraline
•  Amitriptyline
•  Fluoxetine

Therapeutic blood level of lithium is:

•  150 to 200 mg/dL
•  1.5 to 2 mEq/L
•  11 to 20 mg/dL
•  0.8 to 1.2 mEq/L

The usual therapeutic dose range of lithium carbonate in the treatment of bipolar disorders is:

•  15-30 mg/day
•  2000-3000 mg/day
•  30-60 mg/day
•  900-1500 mg/day

The therapeutic blood level of sodium valproate in mood disorders is

•  10 - 20 mEq/L
•  0.8 - 1.2 mEq/L
•  45 and 100 mcg/mL
•  20 - 40 mcg/mL

______________ is a tricyclic antidepressant drug.