Psychopathology terms

Question 1

Simultagnosia

Answer 1

inability to recognise complex pictures (but can describe parts)

Question 2

Visuospatial Agnosia

Answer 2

Inability to construct/ copy figures. Eg. wire cube drawing, interlocking pentagons

Question 3

Anosognosia

Answer 3

Lack of insight incl failure to recognise a functional disability

Question 4

Prosopagnosia

Answer 4

Cannot identify familiar faces

- if acquired usually due to BILATERAL or RIGHT sided lesions of occipital-temporal junction (FUSIFORM GYRUS)

Question 5

Hemisomatognosia

Answer 5

Feel part of the body/ limb is missing

Question 6

Semantic paraphrasia

Answer 6

Mis-selection of words due to semantic confusion - word has similar concept eg. apples for oranges

Question 7

Phonemic confusion

Answer 7

word sounds similar to the intended word eg. shark for sharp but not similar concept

Question 8

Alexia no agraphia

Answer 8

“Pure word blindness” Patient can speak normally and comprehend SPOKEN word, also can write spontaneously but CANNOT READ. Involves infast of left posterior cerebral artery -> affects corpus callosum and left visual cortex (cannot do lexial word processing)

Question 9

Ideomotor apraxia

Answer 9

disorder of goal-directed movement. Know what to do, but not how to do it eg. USING TOOLS, substituting their finger for a toothbrush

Question 10

Ideational apraxia

Answer 10

inability to perform multiple-step task

Question 11

Bucco-facial apraxia

Answer 11

inability to coordinate and carry out facial and lip movements eg. whistkling, coughing

Question 12

Astereognosis

Answer 12

Inability to recognise objects by palpation. Stereognosis is the normal ability to do this

Question 13

Finger agnosia

Answer 13

Inability to name/number fingers

Question 14

Paraschemazia

Answer 14

Distortion of body image- twisting/ parts of the body are separated

Question 15

Subcortical visual aphasia

Answer 15

pure word blindness

• reduced READING COMPREHENSION
• normal speech, writing

Question 16

Palilalia

Answer 16

Repetition of the last word of a sentence

Question 17

Logoclonia

Answer 17

Repitition of the last SYLLABLE of a sentence

Question 18

Ambitendence

Answer 18

seen in CATATONIA
Opposing alternating movements that do not reach the intended goal eg. bringing spoon to and from mouth but not into mouth to eat

Question 19

Pseudologia fantastica

Answer 19

pathological lying
(blur between fantasy and reality)
most common in antisocial or hysterical PD

Question 20

Catalepsy

Answer 20

when moved passively sustain abnormal posture (abnormally contracted)

Question 21

CataPLEXY

Answer 21

Sudden muscle WEAKNESS usually triggered by emotions eg. laughing

Question 22

Waxy flexibility

Answer 22

examiner positions patient into uncomfortable/awkward position which they then maintain

Question 23

Gegenhalten

Answer 23

HALT AND RESIST examiners force with the same amount that is applied

Question 24

Mitgehen

Answer 24

“go with” examiner can maniupulate patients limbs with lightest pressure

Question 25

Asendysis

Answer 25

lack of logical connections between successive thoughts (a thought disorder)