psychiatric symptoms

Question 1

ideomotor apraxia

Answer 1

cannot carry out a command

Question 2

Ideational apraxia

Answer 2

difficulty completing a relatively complex motor task, for example, putting toothpaste on a toothbrush; unable to carry out coordinated sequence of actions

Question 3

Dressing apraxia

Answer 3

difficulties in putting on clothes

Question 4

Constructional apraxia

Answer 4

difficulty copying images or arranging patterns.

Question 5

Anosognosia

Answer 5

denial of illness or impairment despite marked evidence to the contrary

Question 6

Prosopagnosia

Answer 6

inability to recognise a familiar face

Question 7

Cataplexy

Answer 7

sudden loss of muscle tone without loss of consciousness

Question 8

Flynn effect

Answer 8

the process by which the intelligence scores of populations have risen since the 1930s

Question 9

Metonym

Answer 9

unusual use of words

Question 10

asyndesis

Answer 10

knight’s move thinking

Question 11

interpenetration

Answer 11

goal directed stream of thoughts is interfered with by a stream of preoccupation that is based mainly on fantasy

Question 12

Kurt Schneider’s formal thought disorder

Answer 12

Substitution
Omission
Fusion
Drivelling
Derailment

Question 13

Haptic hallucination

Answer 13

pert. to touching the skin or to sensations of temperature or pain

Question 14

Couvade syndrome

Answer 14

a husband also complains of obstetric symptoms during his wife’s pregnancy and parturition

Question 15

Pseudocyesis

Answer 15

the occurrence of false pregnancy

Question 16

Polymorphously perverse

Answer 16

multiple sexual fetishes

Question 17

ideomotor apraxia

Answer 17

understands but can’t carry out task

Question 18

ideational apraxia

Answer 18

unable to carry out coordinated action sequence- dominant parietal

Question 19

conceptional apraxia

Answer 19

inappropriate tool and content selection errors

Question 20

conduction apraxia

Answer 20

greater impairment when imitating actions than when moving to command

Question 21

eintgleisen

Answer 21

Knight’s move thinking

Question 22

schizophasia

Answer 22

word salad

Question 23

verschmelzung

Answer 23

fusion

Question 24

Pickwickian syndrome

Answer 24

profound daytime somnolence associated with gross obesity and cyanosis due to hypoventilation. Breathing is periodic during sleep and somnolence with apneic phases that may last up to a minute.

Question 25

Kleine-Levin

Answer 25

a sleep disorder where attacks of somnolence occur, usually in young men. The condition is a rare and usually the attack ends spontaneously. The patient sleeps excessively during the day and night but can be roused as from normal sleep. When awake the patient is irritable.

Question 26

Alice-in-wonderland syndrome/ dysmetropsia

Answer 26

eople may experience distortions in visual perception of objects such as appearing smaller (micropsia) or larger (macropsia), or appearing to be closer (pelopsia) or farther (teleopsia) away than they actually are. Distortion may occur for other senses besides vision as well.

Question 27

Catalepsy

Answer 27

Loss of voluntary motion in which the limbs remain in whatever position they are placed.

Question 28

Orofacial Apraxia

Answer 28

Inability to carry out facial movements on demand.

Question 29

Limb-kinetic apraxia

Answer 29

Loss of dexterity in performing actions.

Question 30

Verbal Apraxia

Answer 30

difficulty coordinating mouth and speech movements.