Affect And Emotional Disorder

Question 1

Mood

Answer 1

Pervasive & sustained feeling tone that is experienced by patient

Question 2

Affect

Answer 2

Objective & immediate experience of emotion.What an examiner sees & report.

Question 3

Euthymia

Answer 3

Normal range of mood.

Question 4

Depression

Answer 4

Mental state characterized by sadness, loneliness, low self esteem.

Question 5

Anhedonta

Answer 5

Loss of interest in, and withdrawal from, all regular & pleasurable activities often associated with depression.

Question 6

Apathy

Answer 6

Dulled emotional tone associated with detachment or indifference
observed in certain types of schizophrenia & depression.

Question 7

Manta

Answer 7

Mood state characterized by elation, agitation, hyperactivity, hip sexuality & accelerated thinking & speaking (flight of ideas)

Question 8

Alogia

Answer 8

Poverty of thoughts as usserved by absence of spontaneous speech (decreased thought and speech)

Question 9

Euphoria.

Answer 9

Exaggerated feeling of well-being.

Question 10

Dysphasia

Answer 10

Feeling of unpleasantness / discomfort

Question 11

Mobile mood

Answer 11

Pendulum, seen in bipolar disorder. Oscillation between euphoria & depression anxiety.

Question 12

Ambivalence

Answer 12

Coexistence of 2 opposing impulses toward the same thing. conflicting reactions to same object.

Question 13

Bereavement

Answer 13

Feeling of grief especially death of loved one.

Question 14

Globus hystericus

Answer 14

Sensation of a lump in the throat occurring without Oe structure problem/motility problem.
Normally a symptom of anxiety & somatisation disorders.

Question 15

Affect can be described

Answer 15

Normal range, appropriate, restricted, blunted, flat, liability, congruent with mood.