EXTRA Flashcards

1
Q

how many months should patients have difficulty sleeping to be diagnosed with insomnia

A

3 months

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2
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echolalia

A

repetition of someone else’s speech, including the question

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3
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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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4
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circumstantiality

A

person takes a long a time to answer a questions, goes off topic but ends up answering

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5
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Tangentiality

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wandering from a topic without returning to it

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6
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Flight of ideas

A

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

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7
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Perseveration

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

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8
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pseudohallucination

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hallucinating but aware they are hallucinating

commonly occurs during grief of a lost one

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9
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sleep paralysis

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paralysis when sleeping and aware of it

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