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Actual Term Quiz Flashcards

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acute dystonia

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Sudden and sustained muscle contraction of one or more muscles.
NOt dangerous unless involving respiratory muscles

Dys tonia—abnormal muscle tone

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Affect

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The external expression of one’s internal emotional state

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in schizophrenia
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Flat
Blunted
Constricted
Inappropriate
Bizarre
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Affective symptoms

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Symptoms involving emotions and their expression

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Akathisia

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A motor restlessness that causes pacing, repeditive movements, or an inability to stay still or in one place.

Sometimes mistaken for anxiety rather than a drug symptom

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Ambivalence

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A state in which a person at the same time experiences conflicting feelings, attitudes, drives, desires, or emotions, such as love and hate, tenderness and cruelty, or pleasure and pain toward the same person, place, object, or situation.

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Anosognosia

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an inability to realize they are ill, often due to the illness itself

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Associative looseness

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haphazard and illogical thinking, where concentration is poor and thoughts are loosely associated

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Clang association

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choosing words based on their sound rather than their meaning

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Cognitive symptoms

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Subtle or obvious impairment in memorie, attention, thinking, judgement, or problem solving

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Command hallucinations

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symptom/hallucination which directs the patient to do an action

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often dangerous and indicating psyciatric emergency

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Concrete thinking

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Interpriting or perceiving things in a literal manner.

what brought you to the hospital? a car

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Delusions

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False beliefs help despite a lack of evidence to support them

built on a foundation that if the foundation were true the rest of the delusion would be logical

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Depersonalization

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A feeling of being unreal or having lost identity

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Derealization

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A feeling that the world around you is not real

A feeling that the environment has changed

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Echolalia

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The pathilogical repeeting of anothers words

Echo-echo-echo
la–like a song bird

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Echopraxia

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The mimicking od movements of another

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echo-echo
pra-da you dance inshoes

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Executive functioning

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The ability to set priorities and make desisiions

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Extrapyramidal side effects (EPSs)

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Side effects that mimic extrapyramidal disease and are caused by drugs that block dopamine receptor sites in the extrapyramidal system tract.

movement disorders

Acute dystopia, akathesia, psuedoparkinsonism, TD

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First-generation antipsychotics

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works by D2 receptor antagonism.

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effective in the treatment of positive symptoms (e.g., delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thought) but not negative symptoms

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Side effects include EPSs

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Hallucinations

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A sensory perception that does not result from an external stimulus and that occurs in the waking state.
It can occur in any of the senses and is classified accordingly as auditory, gustatory, olfactory, tactile, or visual.

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Ideas of reference and ideas of influence

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The false impression that outside events have special meaning for oneself.

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Illusions

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A false interpretation of an external sensory stimulus.

usually visual or auditory, such as a mirage in the desert or voices on the wind.

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Metabolic syndrome

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A combination including at least three of the following: abdominal obesity, hypertriglyceridemia, low level of high-density lipoproteins, hypertension, and high fasting plasma glucose level.

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It is associated with an increased risk for development of DM and cardiovascular disease.

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Negative symptoms

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The absence of essential human qualities

The absence of something that should be there

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The 6 A's
Anhedonia
Avolition
Asociality
Affective blunting
Apathy
Alogia
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Neologisms

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Words that have meaning for the patient but a different or nonexsistant meaning to others

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Neuroleptic Malignant syndrome (NMS)

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A condition characterized by hypertonicity, pallor, dyskinesia, fever, incontinence, unstable BP, and pulmonary congestion.

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It is caused by the administration of neuroleptic drugs at normal or high doses. Reaction to these drugs is idiosyncratic.

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Paranoia

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condition characterized by an elaborate, overly suspicious system of thinking.

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It often includes delusions of persecution and grandeur usually centered on one major theme, such as a financial matter, a job situation, an unfaithful spouse,
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another problem, such as being followed or monitored by the CIA, FBI, or outer space aliens.

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Pseudoparkinsonism

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A temporary group of symptoms that looks like parkinsons disease tremor

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reduced accecory movements (ex arms swining while walking)
gait impaired
reduced facial impairment (mask facies)
slowing of motot behavior
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Reality testing

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An ego function that enables one to differentiate between external reality and any inner imaginative world –and–
to behave in a manner that exhibits an awareness of accepted norms and customs.

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Recovery model

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is hopeful and empowering,
–and–
emphasizes the person and the future rather than the illness and the present.

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Second-generation antipsychotics

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Fewer EPSs than first gen

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Targets positive and negative symptoms

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Stereotyped beaviors

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A pattern of body movements that has autistic and symbolic meaning for an individual.

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EX

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Tardive dyskinesia (TD ot TDK)

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characterized by involuntary repetitive movements of the muscles of the face, limbs, and trunk.

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commonly affects older people who have been treated for extended periods with antipsychotics

also antidopaminergic medication.

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third-generation antipsychotics

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In areas of the brain with excess dopamine, it lowers the dopamine level by acting as a receptor antagonist; however, in regions with low dopamine, it stimulates receptors to raise the dopamine level.
aripiprazole (Abilify)

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Side effects include insomnia and akathisia.

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Word salad

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extreme form of associate looseness

a jumble of words that are meaning less to the listener

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positive symptoms

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The presence of something that is normally not there

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Anhedonia

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Reduced ability to experience pleasure in eveyday life

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Negative symptom

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Abolition

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Loss of motivation.
Hard time starting and completing goal oriented tasks

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Negative symptom

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Affective blunting

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diminished or restrained affect

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Negative symptom

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Apathy

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Decreased attention or attention in beliefs or activities the one would other wise find important or interesting

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Negative symptom

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Alogia

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Reduction in speech

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Don’t talk as much

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Negative symptom

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