This new revision guide with over 1500 questions, reasoned answers and links to explanatory text gives a comprehensive range of multiple choice questions (MCQs) and extended matching items (EMIs). Complete with sample papers, this book provides everything you need for the written parts of the MRCPsych and comparable higher postgraduate examinations in psychiatry.

- Contains over 550 MCQs and 350 EMIs divided into syllabus topics
- Also includes full-length sample exam papers for Parts 1, 2 and 3 of the MRCPsych
- Challenging questions written to bring out key learning points
- Full, detailed answers and links to revision and remediation
- Prepared by experienced teachers and writers of examination questions

This book is essential for all psychiatrists preparing for the written MRCPsych and similar examinations, allowing candidates to approach the exam with confidence.

Contents

Part 1: The foundations of modern psychiatric practice 1 History of psychiatry 2 Introduction to evidence-based medicine 3 History and philosophy of science 4 Research methods and statistics 5 Epidemiology 6 How to practise evidence-based medicine 7 Psychological assessment and psychometrics Part 2: Developmental, behavioural, and socio-cultural psychiatry 8 Human development 9 Introduction to basic psychology 10 Awareness 11 Stress 12 Emotion 13 Information-processing and attention 14 Learning theory 15 Motivation 16 Perception 17 Memory 18 Language and thought 19 Personality 20 Social psychology 21 Social science and sociocultural psychiatry 22 Cultural psychiatry Part 3: Neuroscience 23 Neuroanatomy 24 Basic concepts in neurophysiology 25 Neurophysiology of integrated behaviour 26 Neurogenesis and cerebral plasticity 27 The neuroendocrine system 28 The neurophysiology and neurochemistry of arousal and sleep 29 The electroencephalogram and evoked potential studies 30 Neurochemistry 31 Neuropathology 32 Neuroimaging 33 Genetics Part 4: ealth problems and mental illness 34 Classification and diagnostic systems 35 Cognitive assessment 36 Neurology for psychiatrists 37 Organic disorders 38 Schizophrenia and paranoid psychoses 39 Mood disorders/affective psychoses 40 Neurotic and stress-related disorders 41 Dissociative (conversion) hypochondriasis and other somatoform disorders 42 Eating disorders 43 Personality disorders 44 Perinatal psychiatry 45 Psychosexual medicine 46 Gender identity disorders 47 Paraphilias and sexual offenders 48 Psychiatric assessment of physical illness 49 Overlapping multi-system, multi-organ illnesses/syndromes 50 Multiple chemical sensitivity 51 Mental health problems in patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis 52 Pain and psychiatry 53 Sleep disorders 54 Suicide and deliberate self-harm 55 Emergency psychiatry 56 Care of the dying and bereaved Part 5: Approaches to treatment 57 Clinical psychopharmacology 58 Electroconvulsive therapy 59 Transcranial magnetic stimulation and vagus ...