A 39-year-old woman suffering from schizophrenia constantly strains to hear something insisting that "there is a phone connection in her brain and she hears her brother's voice demanding that she come back home". The patient is anxious, suspicious, constantly looking around. Specify the psychopathologic syndrome.

Answer options

1. Paraphrenic
2. Depressive
3. Paranoid
4. Anxiety
5. Hallucinatory

Explanation

In this task, you need to pay attention to the patient has imperative pseudo hallucinations (the voice sounds inside the head of the patient, that is, one of the signs of true hallucinations is missing – extra projection, “her brother’s voice demanding that she come back home” – imperative hallucination). Under the influence of these hallucinations, the patient becomes “anxious, suspicious, constantly looking around”. Thus, the correct answer is a hallucinatory syndrome. At the beginning of the task, there is an additional clue that the patient suffers from schizophrenia. The hallucinatory syndrome occurs in patients with schizophrenia quite often. Psychiatry: [Textbook] V.L. Gavenko, V.M. Sinayko, G.A. Samardakova and others; reduction by V.L. Gavenko, – Kharkiv: Region-inform, 2006. – 29 – 30, 32 P.