ABSTRACT

General adult psychiatry 1 False 2 False 3 False 4 True 5 True Mescaline and phencyclidine are hallucinogens. 6 True Untreated nicotinic acid deficiency may lead to a state like

Korsakoff’s syndrome or slowly progressing dementia. 7 True 8 True 9 False

10 True 11 True 12 False Suicide rates are lowest among men and are considered higher

among the divorced, but certainly not four times. 13 False 14 True 15 True 16 True 17 False 18 True 19 True Silent myocardial infarction may cause a toxic confusional state,

which in turn may lead to antisocial behaviour. 20 False 21 True 22 True 23 False 24 False 25 False Kretschmer stressed the importance of underlying personality in the

development of a delusion. As a sequel to a key experience, delusion develops from sensitive ideas of reference, i.e. sensitiver Beziehungswahn.