MSE Flashcards
What is akathisia
Restlessness
What is tardive dyskinesia
Abnormal movements of face - tongue, lips and jaw
Can be irreversible**
What is dystonia
muscular spasms causing abnormal face and body movements/ posture
What is the word used to describe made up words
Neologisms
What is flight of ideas
Abnormal connection between statements, based on rhyme or pun
What is thought block
Thoughts disappear/ mind goes blank
What is a blunted affect
lacking appropriate emotional responses
What is a labile affect
Excessively changing affect
What is a incongruous affect
Grossly out of touch of subjects being discussed
For example laughing at bereavement
What is a precursory delusion
Someone or something is interfering in a malicious or destructive way
“do you worry that people are trying to harm you”
What is a grandiose delusion
Being greater, better, stronger or having powers
“Do you have any special talents”
Delusion of reference meaning
Actions of other people are referring to you (hearing things on the TV about you)
“Have you heard people talking about you”
What is delusion of passivity
Actions are controlled by someone else
“do you ever feel you are being controlled by someone else”
5 types of delusions
Grandiose (being famous/ having powers) Of reference (talking about you on TV) Precursory (someone is harming you) Passivity (controlled by someone else) Thought insertion/ broadcast/ withdrawal
What is a pseudo hallucination
Some insight into it
“a voice inside my head tells me that.. “
