Psych Clinical Flashcards
Disturbance of orientation to time, place or person
Disorientation
A state of impaired awareness associated with a desire or inclination to sleep
Drowsiness
abnormal drowsiness
Somnolence
consciousness disturbance and patient is not aware
about the surroundings
Dream like state
occur in older persons that usually occurs at night
and is characterized by drowsiness, confusion, ataxia, and falling as a result of being overly sedated with medications
Sun downing syndrome
A disturbance of consciousness
Delirium
condition in which the patient is immobile, mute, and unresponsive to any stimuli neither external, nor internal
Stupor
unresponsive to all stimuli (pain), impaired consciousness
Coma
state of restricted consciousness, starts and ends abruptly, amnesia is complete
Twilight state
memory loss, as does psychogenic
amnesia, but it also including traveling away from
home or from one’s usual work locale. memory loss, as does psychogenic amnesia, but it also including traveling away from home or from one’s usual work locale.
Fugue
Excess unproductive over activity characterized by
speeding and restlessness
Agitation
sever form of hyperactivity, excessive purposeless motor activity and the patient may destruct himself
or other
Excitement
sleep walking
Somnambulism
It is a monotonous repetition of certain movement without purpose.
Stereotypy
It is a repeated movement which isn’t monotonous and
keeping with the personality character.
Mannerism
it is the maintenance of imposed postures however abnormal they may be the absence of fatigue in such cases is remarkable
Waxy flexibility
imitating the movement of another person
Echopraxia
Frequent opposition to suggestion
Negativism
the performance of all simple commands in a robot-like fashion may be present in catatonic.
Automatic obedience
is an action that is sudden , abrupt , unplanned
and directed toward immediate gratification
Impulsiveness
Extremely slow and different movement that in the
extremes can entail complete inactivity and incontinence
Psychomotor retardation
repeated irregular movements involving a muscle group
Tics
restriction in the amount / quantity of speech
used. replies may be monosyllabic
Poverty of speech
verbal responses given only when asked or spoken to directly; no self-initiation of speech
Nonspontaneous speech