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Psychiatry for NEET PG

~4 questions — drug side effects and the Mental Healthcare Act.

📊 ~4 Q · ~16 marks (2% of the paper)

How toppers play this section

Psychiatry is worth four questions and takes very little time to secure, because the examinable content is narrow. Psychopharmacology side effects, the manic-episode question that separates bipolar from unipolar illness, which withdrawal states can kill, and the Mental Healthcare Act 2017 provisions cover nearly everything asked. The Act is recent enough that older material gets it wrong.

Chapters

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1"Anxiety & Neurotic Disorders""Every anxiety disorder shares the same physiology, so the symptoms cannot separate them. What separates them is what the anxiety is about and how it behaves in time. And one mechanism maintains all of them: avoidance, which is why exposure is the treatment."⏱ 22 min read

2"Mood Disorders""One question decides almost everything in mood disorders: has this patient ever had a manic or hypomanic episode? A yes converts the diagnosis, the drug, the prognosis and the risk, because an antidepressant given to undiagnosed bipolar disorder can precipitate mania."⏱ 22 min read

3"Psychopharmacology""Psychotropic drugs are easier to reason about than to memorise, because side effects are receptor actions in the wrong place. Block dopamine in the nigrostriatal pathway and you get parkinsonism; block it in the tuberoinfundibular pathway and you get galactorrhoea. Same drug, different tract."⏱ 22 min read

4"Psychotic Disorders""Psychosis is a syndrome, not a diagnosis, so the first task is always to ask what is causing it. And the symptoms that respond to treatment are not the ones that determine outcome: antipsychotics treat positive symptoms well, while negative and cognitive symptoms decide how the patient's life goes."⏱ 22 min read

5"Substance Use Disorders""Two questions organise every substance. What does intoxication look like, and what does withdrawal look like, because withdrawal is almost always the mirror image of intoxication. And one asymmetry decides urgency: alcohol and benzodiazepine withdrawal can kill, while opioid withdrawal, though agonising, does not."⏱ 22 min read

Topic-wise weightage in NEET PG

Expected question counts from previous-year paper analyses. Topics with an arrow already have a full chapter.

Topic	NEET PG Q	Tier 2 Q	Priority
Psychopharmacology	1		Very high
Mood disorders	1		Very high
Psychotic disorders	1		High
Substance use disorders	1		High
Anxiety & neurotic disorders	0–1		Medium

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