EXTRA Flashcards
how many months should patients have difficulty sleeping to be diagnosed with insomnia
3 months
echolalia
repetition of someone else’s speech, including the question
Clang associations
when ideas are related to each other only by the fact they sound similar or rhyme
circumstantiality
person takes a long a time to answer a questions, goes off topic but ends up answering
Tangentiality
wandering from a topic without returning to it
Flight of ideas
a feature of mania, is thought disorder where there are leaps from one topic to another but with discernible links between them
Perseveration
repetition of ideas or words despite an attempt to change the topic.
pseudohallucination
hallucinating but aware they are hallucinating
commonly occurs during grief of a lost one
sleep paralysis
paralysis when sleeping and aware of it