PSYCH Flashcards
Affective flattening
No emotion
Ageusia
Impaired taste buds
Agranulocytosis
Proliferation of immature white blood cells
Akathisia
Restlessness, inability to sit or stand still
Alogia
Poverty of speech
Amnesia
No memory (temporary)
Anhedonia
Decreased pleasure
Anosmia
Impaired sense of smell
Apathy
No concern
Asociality
No socialization
Ataxia`
Unsteady gait / Uncoordinated movements
Avolition
No motivation
Cachexia
Muscle wasting
Catatonia
Odd posture and movement (aggressive;retarded)
Cenesthetic hallucination
Crawling sensation, something grows inside of you
Circumstantiality
Verbose but arrives to the point
Disenfranchised grief
Happens to people with socially unexpected loss (e.g., mistresses)
Dysautonomia
Dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system
Dysthymia
Mild to moderate depression
Dystonia
Involuntary muscle contraction
Echolalia
Repeating what others say
Echopraxia
Imitating other peopleβs action
Egodistonia
Person knows the truth and is uncomfortable about (e.g., closeted gays/lesbians)
Euthymia
Normal mood
Folie a deux
Normal mood
Halitosis
Bad breath
Hebephrenia (Disorganized Schizophrenia)
Weird behaviors (e.g., laughing suddenly or without a cause)
Hematemesis
Blood in vomit