Inflammation / Cognition Flashcards
What is Ambivalence?
mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone
What is Associative Looseness?
inability to concentrate on a single thought
What is Bizarre Behaviors?
not normal behavior like walking backwards constantly
What is Echolalia?
repeats words spoken to them
What is Echopraxia?
purposeful imitation of movements made by others
What is Flight of Ideas?
someone speaks quickly and rapidly switches between ideas that are not obviously connect.
Ex: I love the sky. My water bottle is cold.
What is Perseveration?
repetition of particular response such as a word, phrase, or gesture
What is Ideas of reference?
false belief that random or irrelevant occurrence’s in the world directly relate to oneself
Ex: the newspaper is telling them that their mom is talking to them
What is Distortion in Perception-bizarre?
What is Alogia?
mumble or respond vaguely
What is Anhedonia?
lack of pleasure or joy
What is Apathy?
lack of motivation, interest or emotional expression
What is Blunted Affect?
reduced ability to express emotions through facial expression, tone of voice, physical movements
What is Catatonia?
person to appear unresponsive to their surroundings and environment which include
- lack of movement
- fast or strange movements
- lack of speech
What is Inattention?
lack of attention
What is Verbigeration?
repeating words, phrases, sentences in a way that is meaningless
ex: dog cat ate car work
What is Flat affect?
lack of facial expression
What is Clang association?
words that rhyme together
ex: bee see me tree
What is Neologism?
made up word
What is Stilted language?
speak in a formal or unnatural way
Ex: mr. wagoner
What is Word Salad?
jumble of words together
ex: bags stain purple vacuum. I no coffee lamp car. bag up me phone
What is Persecutory delusion?
pt. believes a person or group wants to hurt them and firmly believe that it is true.
ex: my neighbor breaks into my house and steals my clothes
What is Grandiose delusion?
pt. believes they are some sort of higher power.
ex: someone believes they are the president or superman.
What is Paranoid Delusion?
fixed false belief that someone is being threatened or mistreated
ex: the FBI is watching them
What is Religious delusion?
fixed belief that is not open to change believes that
- supernatural abilites
- religious mission
- persecuted for religious reasons
- possessed by evil spirit
- cursed by black magic
What is Command hallucination?
auditory hallucination that involve hearing voices that instruct the person to do something
What is Referential delusion?
belief that ordinary events and normal human behavior have hidden meanings that somehow relate to the pt.
ex: believing when a person is bowling their nose they are giving you nonverbal cues
What is visual hallucination?
a perception of something visual that is not actually there
What is auditory hallucination?
hearing voices
What is DSM-5-TR?
a manual use by clinicians and reseachers to diangose and classify mental disorders
(Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition, text revision)
What is psychoanalysis?
therapy that helps people understand how their past experiences shape their present and how to deal with those influences
What is transference?
when someone redirects their feelings about one person onto someone else
What is countertransference?
a clinicians lets their own feelings shape the way they interact with or react to their client in therapy
(can be a trigger)
What is free association?
therapeutic technique where the patient shares thoughts, words, and feelings without censoring themselves
What is avolition?
lack of motivation
What is anergia?
lack of energy
What is somatic belief?
believing something about a body part
Ex: bugs are under my skin
What are positive symptoms for schizophrenia?
- disorganized thinking
- hallucinations
- delusions
What are negative symptoms of schizophrenia?
the 6 a’s
What does a person need to have to be diagnosed with schizophrenia?
What is the main goal for inpatient schizophrenia?
to stabilize them on their meds and send them safely back into the world.