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psychiatric symptoms Flashcards

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ideomotor apraxia

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cannot carry out a command

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Ideational apraxia

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Inability to create a plan for a specific movement e.g. pick up pen in right hand and write your name

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Dressing apraxia

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difficulties in putting on clothes

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Constructional apraxia

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difficulty copying images or arranging patterns e.g. can’t copy pentagons

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Anosognosia

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denial of illness or impairment despite marked evidence to the contrary

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Prosopagnosia

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inability to recognise a familiar face

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Cataplexy

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sudden loss of muscle tone without loss of consciousness

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Flynn effect

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

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Metonym

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unusual use of words

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asyndesis

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knight’s move thinking; also an example of loosening association.

Transitional from one sentence to another or mid sentence without logical relationship between the two.

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interpenetration

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

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Kurt Schneider’s formal thought disorder

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Substitution
Omission
Fusion
Drivelling
Derailment

  1. Audible thoughts
  2. Voices arguing/discussing
  3. Voices commenting/running commentary
    4 . Somatic passivity
  4. Thought withdrawal and other experiences of influenced thought
  5. Thought broadcasting
  6. Delusional perception
  7. Made acts, impulses and affects
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Haptic hallucination

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

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Couvade syndrome

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

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Pseudocyesis

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the occurrence of false pregnancy

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Polymorphously perverse

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multiple sexual fetishes

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conceptional apraxia

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inappropriate tool selection

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conduction apraxia

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greater impairment when imitating actions than when moving to command

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eintgleisen

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Knight’s move thinking

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schizophasia

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word salad

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verschmelzung

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fusion
A merging and interweaving of separate ideas

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Pickwickian syndrome

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Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome: 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.

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Kleine-Levin

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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.
Comorbid symptoms of hyper sexuality, hyper orality and other disturbed behaviours

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Alice-in-wonderland syndrome/ dysmetropsia

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People 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.

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Capgras Syndrome

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The patient believes that certain familiar persons have been replaced by a group of impostors resembling the original persons

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Cotard Syndrome

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Parts of their body are missing, or that they are dying, dead, or don’t exist.

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De ja vu

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The eerie feeling that you’ve been here and done this before.

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Intermetamorphosis

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a belief that an individual is transformed both physiologically and physically into another (essentially combines reverse fregoli + reverse capgras)

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Paramnesia

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a condition or phenomenon involving distorted memory or confusions of fact and fantasy, such as confabulation or déjà vu.

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Fregoli delusion

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delusional belief that one or more familiar persons, usually persecutors following the patient, repeatedly change their appearance.

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The sufferer assumes the physical but not the psychological identity of the stranger

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Reverse Fregoli Syndrome

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The suffer resumes psychological change of the self as opposed to others eg Stavros believes the others think he is an imposter

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Reverse Capgras Syndrome

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Brobdingangian hallucination

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A hallucination or visual disorder in which objects appear larger or nearer than they are; macropsia

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Dysmegalopsia

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A change in the perceived form of an object

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Peduncular hallucination

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A rare form of visual hallucination often described as vivid, colourful visions of people and animals.

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Functional Hallucination

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Hallucinations are triggered by a stimulus in the same modality, and co-occur with it.

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Reflex Hallucination

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One modality of sensation experienced after experiencing a normal stimulus in another modality of sensation.

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Autoscopic hallucination

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Psychic illusory visual experiences defined by the perception of the images of one’s own body or one’s face within space, either from an internal point of view, as in a mirror or from an external point of view.

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Jamias Vu

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The experience of being unfamiliar with a person or situation that is actually very familiar.

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Hypnogogic hallucination

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Hallucinations that occur as you’re falling asleep.

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Hypnopompic hallucination

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Occur while a person is waking up

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De Clarambault Syndrome/Erotomania

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Delusional idea, usually in a young woman, that a man whom she considers to be of higher social and/or professional standing is in love with her.

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Delusion of Infidelity

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Characteristic of Othello’s syndrome or Morbid jealousy

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Delusion of Reference

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A neutral event is believed to have a special and personal meaning

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Delusional perception

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Abnormal significance attached to a real perception without any cause that is understandable in rational or emotional terms. This occurs in two stages: real perception -> delusional interpretation.

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Delusional intuition/autochthonous

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ARise fully formed as a sudden intuition, occur in a single stage.
Also called Wahneinfall.

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Delusional mood

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Strange, uncanny mood in which the environment appears to be changed in a threatening way, but the significance of the change cannot be understood by the patient who is tense, anxious and bewildered.

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Delusional atmosphere

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A peculiar blend of anxiety, perplexity and foreboding, led to the emergence of certain delusions. Also known as Wahnstimmung.

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Nihilistic Delusion

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Feelings of guilt and hypochondriacal ideas are developed to their most extreme, depressive form.

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Subjective doubles syndrome

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Another person has transformed into themselves - delusional misidentification syndrome

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Verbigeration

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An obsessive repetition of meaningless words and phrases, especially as a symptom of mental illness.

An example of loosening associations

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Hyperschemazia

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Pathological accentuation of body image eg pain causing body parts to loom large

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Primary delusions

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Authochtonous delusion
Delusional atmosphere
Delusional percept

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Vorbeireden

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Talking past the point - always about to get to the point but skirts around and never get to the point

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Logoclonia

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Meaningless repetition of a syllable, especially an end syllable of a word

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Alogia

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Poverty of speech

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During repositioning of patient, patient offers initial resistance before allowing him/herself to be repositioned

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Waxy flexibility

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Repetitive, non-goal-directed motor activity (e.g. finger-play, repeatedly touching, patting or rubbing self); abnormality not inherent in act but in its frequency.

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Stereotypy

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Spontaneous maintenance of posture (s), including mundane (e.g. sitting or standing for long periods without reacting).

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Posturing

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Exaggerated cooperation with examiner’s request or spontaneous continuation of movement requested.

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Automatic obedience

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Patient raises arm in response to light pressure of finger, despite instructions to the contrary.

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Passive obedience - mitgehen

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Involuntary resistance to passive movement of a limb to a new position. Resistance increases with the speed of the movement.

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Muscle resistance, gegenhalten

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Kaylee claims her brother who died when she was an infant is not dead but appears in reincarnated form in her male friends

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Fregoli syndrome

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Schneiderian first rank symptoms

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Auditory hallucinations; thought withdrawal, insertion and interruption; thought broadcasting; somatic hallucinations; delusional perception; feelings or actions as made or influenced by external agents

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Schizotypal DSM criteria

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This pattern of social deficits due to mental distortions and discomfort with close relationships is indicated by at least five of the following:
The individual’s ideas of reference (not including delusions of reference)
He or she has strange beliefs or magical thinking that influences behavior and that is quite different from subcultural norms (e.g., feelings about superstition, telepathy, “sixth sense”, and generally bizarre fantasies).
The individual has odd perceptual experiences, such as bodily illusions.
He or she has strange thinking and speech habits; for example, the individual is excessively vague or metaphorical.
He or she is excessively suspicious or paranoid.
The individual has inappropriate or restricted feelings.
The individual behaves peculiarly or eccentrically or has an odd appearance.
He or she lacks a closeness with others except with first-degree relatives.
He or she experiences excessive social anxiety even with the comfort of familiar people or places; this anxiety tends to relate to paranoid fears rather than self-consciousness.

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Schizoid DSM

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He or she doesn’t want nor enjoys close relationships.
He or she almost always chooses independent activities.
The individual has little interest to no interest in becoming sexually active with another person.
He or she doesn’t take pleasure in many or any activities.
The individual lacks close friends other than immediate relatives.
He or she is unmoved by praise or criticism.
The individual shows emotional detachment and/or coldness.

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PD that increases risk toward schizophrenia development

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Schizoid PD

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Type of PD?
Pt referred for social skills training, but does not want to join group because other people make him nervous. Life long pattern of social isolation with no real friends and spends hours worrying that his neighbour may be sending ‘bad vibes’ to upset him. He has constructed affect and his speech is over inclusive.

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Schizotypal PD

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Delusional disorder subtypes

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Subtypes include erotomanic, grandiose, jealous, persecutory, somatic, mixed, and unspecified.

Nihilistic is NOT a subtype

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Type of symptom?
I went to the trance party and I tell you ‘I could smell the music.

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Synaesthesia -Anomalous blending of the senses in which the stimulation of one modality simultaneously produces sensation

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Thoughts are spoken just afterwards

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Echo de la pensees

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Hearing thought spoken aloud or hearing voices which anticipate what he or she is about to think

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Gedankenlautwerden

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Vivid mental images occurring without conscious effort when perceiving ill-defined stimuli

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Pareidolia
E.g. shapes in clouds

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Dream-like fantastic delusional derangement of consciousness, characterized by a kaleidoscopic quality of psychopathological experiences, wherein reality, illusions and hallucinations are merged into one. It is typically accompanied by motor and, in particular, catatonic disturbances.

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Oneiroid state

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Hygric hallucination

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Perception of fluid

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Haptic hallucination

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Touch

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