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Answers for 100 Questions in AIPG 2012 ( All India PG / AIPPG / AIPGME / AIPGMEE 2012 ) from Operation Harri – A Book for AIIMS and AIPG from Positive Coaching

Milestones in Neuropsychiatry

Milestones in Neuropsychiatry

1681 – Thomas Willis coined the term “Neurology” 1695 – Humphrey Ridley published “The Anatomy of the Brain” 1808 – German physician Johann Christian Reil (1759-1813) coined the term “Psychiatrist” based on the greek word meaning “healing the soul” 1812 – Benjamin Rush published the first American textbook on psychiatry entitled “Medical [...

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Gamma Camera, Photo Electric Effect, Collimator, Scintillation Detector, Photomultiplier tubes

Gamma Camera

Reference : http://www.physics.ubc.ca/~mirg/home/tutorial/hardware.html

Once a radiopharmaceutical has been administered, it is necessary to detect the gamma ray emissions in order to attain the functional information. The instrument used in Nuclear Medicine for the detection of gamma rays is known as the Gamma camera. The components making up the gamma camera are the collimator, detector [...

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Embryology of Brain and Spine

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Suture Materials

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Few Types of Hernia

abdominal hernia, herniation of omentum, intestine, or some other internal body structure through the abdominal wall; called also ventral h. and laparocele.

acquired hernia, one brought on by lifting or by a strain or other injury.

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How Rasputin treated Tsarevich Alexei's Hemophilia

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Tsesarevich Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov was Tsesarevich – the heir apparent – of Russia, being the youngest child and the only son of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Alexandra Fyodorovna.

Alexei is presumed to have died on July 17, 1918, but as his body has never been found this is impossible to [...

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Osmolal Gap

Osmolal Gap is the difference between measured serum osmolality and calculated serum osmolality.

It is typically calculated as: OG = measured serum osmolality – (2 X serum sodium + serum glucose + serum urea)

Where:

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Anion Gap HAGMA LAGMA and NAGMA !!!

Blood has a lot of Cations Blood has a lot of Anions

Total charge of Anions = Total Charge of Cations

So

Na + K + Unmeasured Cations = HCO3 + Cl + unmeasured AnionsRearrangingNa + K – (HCO3 + Cl) = Unmeasured Anions – Unmeasured CationsAnion Gap = Unmeasured Anions – Unmeasured Cations

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Hallucinations… Please don’t be under an Illusion !!!!

Question from AIPG(All India PG) 2003 and the related discussion

105. All of the following are features of hallucinations, except:

1.It is independent of the will of the observer.2.Sensory organs are not involved.3.It is a vivid as that in a true sense perception.4. It occurs in the absence of perceptual stimulus.

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Surgery Books for Pre PG Medical Entrance

Of late I am getting many mails / phone calls for details about books to read for Surgery. Hope this list is useful

1. Surgical Short cases by Das has those High Yielding topics covered in great detail . If you have gone through this book once (it will take just 20 hours to read [...

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Mnemonic – Lepra Reaction and Hypersensitivity

Type of Lepra Reaction + Type of Immune Reaction = 5 Type I Lepra Reaction is Type IV Immune Reaction ie Cell Mediated Immunity (1 + 4 = 5) Type II Lepra Reaction is Type III Immune Reaction ie Immune Complexes (2 + 3 = 5)

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THE MERCK MANUAL, Sec. 11, Ch. 140, Plasma Cell Dyscrasias

Multiple Myeloma(Plasma Cell Myeloma; Myelomatosis) A progressive neoplastic disease characterized by marrow plasmacytomas (plasma cell tumors) and overproduction of an intact monoclonal immunoglobulin (IgG, IgA, IgD, or IgE) or Bence Jones protein (free monoclonal or light chains). Multiple myeloma is often associated with multiple osteolytic lesions, hypercalcemia, anemia, renal damage, and increased susceptibility to bacterial [...

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Anomalies of t(5,14)(q31:q32)

Anomalies t514ID1111:

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