Thought disorders Flashcards

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Circumstantiality

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inability to answer a question without giving excessive, unnecessary detail. However, this differs from tangentiality in that the person does eventually return to the original point.

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Tangentiality

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refers to wandering from a topic without returning to it

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Neologisms

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New word formations, which might include the combining of two words.

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Clang associations

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when ideas are related to each other only by the fact they sound similar or rhyme.

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Word salad

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completely incoherent speech where real words are strung together into nonsense sentences.

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Knight’s move thinking

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severe type of loosening of associations, where there are unexpected and illogical leaps from one idea to another. It is a feature of schizophrenia

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Flight of ideas

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a feature of mania, is a thought disorder where there are leaps from one topic to another but with discernible links between them.

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Perseveration

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The repetition of ideas or words despite an attempt to change the topic.

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Echolalia

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the repetition of someone else’s speech, including the question that was asked.

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