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A movement disorder characterized by a feeling of inner restlessness and a compelling need to be in constant motion is what?

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Akathisia

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Pathological imitation of movements of one person by another

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Echopraxia

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Automatic performance of an act or acts generally representing unconscious symbolic activity

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automatisms

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inabilitity to carry out specific tasks

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Apraxia

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lack of physical movements

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akinesia

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Motiveless resistance to all attempts to be moved: or to all instructions

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Negativism

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What is articulation difficulty?

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Dysarthria

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Loss of normal speech melody?

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Dysprosody

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Erratic and dysrhythmic speech: rapid and jerky spurts?

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Cluttering

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What is normal pleasant mood?

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Euthymic

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What is an unpleasant mood?

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Dysphoric

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What is Alexithymia?

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a person’s inability to or difficulty in describing or being aware of emotions or mood

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Loss of interest in and withdrawal from all pleasurable topics?

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Anhedonia

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What is feeling of intense rapture?

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Ectasy

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What is intense elation with feeling of grandeur?

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Euphoria

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What is severe reduction in the intensity of external tone of feeling?

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Blunted affect

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What is rapid and abrupt chances in emotional tone that is unrelated to external stimuli?

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Labile affect

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What should be included in a person’s community of thought?

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goal directed and person’s ideas are logical

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What is overinclusion of trivial or irrelevant details that imped the sense of getting to the point?

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Circumstantiality

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What are “thoughts associated by the sound of words rather than by their meaning?”

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Clang associations

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What is a breakdown in both the logical connections between ideas and the overall sense of logical thought?

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Derailment

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What is a succession of multiple associations so that thoughts seem to move abruptly from idea to idea?

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Flight of ideas

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What is the invention of new words or pharases or the use of conventional words in idiosyncratic ways?

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Neologism

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What is repetition out of context of words: pharases: or ideas?

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Perservation

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What is the patient answers the question, but really does not answer the question?

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Tangentiality

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What is a sudden disruption of thought or a break in the flow of ideas?

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Thought blocking

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What is exaggerated sense of one’s own importance: power or significance?

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Grandiose

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What is Gustatory Hallucinations?

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Gustatory: what is sensory impression with no external stimulus

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When falling asleeping: what are hallucinations that can happen?

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Hypnogogic

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When awaking up: what are hallucinations that can happen?

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Hypnopompic

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What is the loss of reality of the self?

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Depersonalization

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What is “the person feels that environment has changed and that external reality is no longer familiar?”

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Derealization

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What is misperception or misinterpretation of real simuli?

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Illusions

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What is insight is present; admits to an illness: agrees: need help?

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True Emotional Insight

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What is the ability to handle social situations and understand and adhere to reasonable social norms?

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Judgment

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What is ability to assess: discern: and choose among various options in a situation? (respect to judgement)

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Critical Judgement

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What is reflex performance of an action?

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Automatic judgment

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What is diminished ability to understand a sitaution correct and to act appropriately?

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Impaired Judgement

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What is consciouness (incomplete clear mindedness with disturbances in perception and attitudes)?

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Clouded

40
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What type of affect is less severely blunted, but clearly reduced?

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Constricted Affect

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What is disharmony between between emotional feeling , tone, idea, thought, and speech?

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Abnormal affect

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What is cultural modification of an individual, group of adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture; a merging of cultures as a result of prolonged contact?

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Acculturation

43
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What is psychomotor retardation?

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signify depression or negative symptoms of schizophrenia

44
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What is psychomotor agitation?

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May occur with anxiety or mania, motor symptoms may follow patient’s illness

45
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Illusions: misperception or misinterpretation of real stimuli (something is larger than it really is)?

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Macropsia

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_________ are fixed, false beliefs that are not in accordance with external reality. These false beliefs are firmly held despite what constitutes obvious proof. This delusional belief is not part of a culturally accepted belief.

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delusions

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What is a person who experiences obsessions, crecognize that the intrusiveness and unwated nature of their recurrent and persisten thoughts, is not normal unlike a patient with delusions?

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Obsessions

48
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What is poverty of speech?

What is poverty of content?

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very little speech

vague content but of adequate amount

49
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What is a person does not have the ability or difficulty describing or being aware of emotions or mood, schizophrenia?

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Alexithymia

50
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What is similing when a child dies or a promotion with sadness or anger?

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Inappropriate affect

51
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What are an actual external stimulus present in reality, which is misperceived or misinterpreted?

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Illusions

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What is the patient’s capacity to understand that there is a problem, to show awareness that they need treatment?

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Insight

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What is the feeling of intense rapture?

What is intense elation with feelings of grandeur?

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Ectasy

Euphoria

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What are feelings of joy, triumph, intense self-satisfaction, or optimism?

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Elation

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