DISTURBANCES OF PERCEPTION

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process of transferring physical stimulation into psychological information; the mental process by which sensory stimuli are brought into awareness.

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Perception

Question 2

misperception or misinterpretation of real external sensory stimuli.

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Illusion

Question 3

false sensory perception not associated with real external stimuli

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Hallucination

Question 4

false sensory perception occurring while falling asleep; generally considered a non-pathological phenomenon.

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Hypnagogic Hallucination

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false perception occurring while awakening from sleep genera ly considered non-pathological.

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Hypnopompic Hallucination

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false perception of sound, usua ly voices but also other noises such as music; most common halucination in psychiatric disorders.

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Auditory Hallucination

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false perception involving sight consisting of both formed images(e.g. people) and unformed images (e.g. flashes of light) most common in organicaly determined disorders.

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Visual Hallucination

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false perception in smell most common in organic disorders.

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Olfactory Hallucination

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false perception of taste, such as unpleasant taste caused by an uncinate seizure most common in organic disorders.

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Gustatory Hallucination

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false perception of touch or surface sensation, as from an amputated limb (phantom limb), crawling sensation on or under the skin (formication).

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Tactile (Haptic) Hallucination

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false sensation of things occurring in or to the body, most often visceral in origin (also known as cenesthetsic halucination).

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Somatic Hallucination

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false perception in which objects are seen as reduced in size (also termed micropsia).

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Lilliputian Hallucination

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a kind of halucination wherein the content of which is consistent with either a depressed or manic mood (e.g. a depressed patient hears voices saying that the patient is a bad person a manic patient hears voices saying that the patient is inflated of worth, power, knowledge, etc.)

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Mood-congruent Hallucination

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Halucination whose content is not consistent with either depressed or manic mood (e.g. in depression, halucinations not involving such themes as guilt, deserved punishment, or inadequacy in mania, halucinations not involving such themes as inflated worth or power)

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Mood-incongruent Hallucination

Question 15

Halucinations, most often auditory, that are associated with chronic alcohol abuse and that occur within a clear sensorium.

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Hallucinosis

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perceptual abnormality associated with halucinogenic drugs in which moving object are seen as a series of discrete and discontinuous stages.

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Trailing Phenomenon