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Schizophrenia Vocabulary Flashcards

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affective flattening or blunting

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restriction or flattening in the range and intensity of emotion

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affective liability

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abrupt, dramatic, unprovoked changes in the types of emotions expressed

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aggression

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overt behavior meant to hurt, belittle, take revenge, or achieve domination and control

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agitation

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cant sit still or attend to others accompanied by heightened emotions and tension

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agranulocytosis

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dangerously low level of circulating neutrophils

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akathisia

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extrapyramidal side effect inability to sit still or restlessness

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alogia

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brief, empty verbal responses

aka poverty of speech

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ambivalence

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presence and expression of two opposing feelings, leading to inaction
aka indecisive

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anhedonia

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cant experience pleasure

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apathy

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decreased rxn to stimuli with a diminished interest and desire

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autistic thinking

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thinking restricted to literal and immediate, individual has private rules of logic and reasoning that makes no sense to others

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avolition

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withdrawal and inability to initiate and persist in goal-directed activity

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catatonic excitement

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hyperactivity characterized by purposeless activity and abnormal movements like grimacing and posturing

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circumstantiality

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extremely detailed and lengthy discourse about a topic

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extrapyramidal side effect

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acute abnormal movements developing early in the course of treatment with antipsychotic meds.

dystonia, pseudoparkinsonism and akathisia

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flight of ideas

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rapid and repeated changes during conversation, usually after just one sentence or phrase

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hallucinations

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alterations in receptions (auditory or visual)

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hypervigilance

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sustained attention to external stimuli expecting something important or frightening to happen

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hypofrontality

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reduced cerebral blood flow and glucose metabolism in the prefrontal cortex

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illusion

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disorganized perceptions

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loose associations

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sudden shifts in subjects with no connection to the preceding topic

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metonymic speech

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use of words with similar meaning interchangeably

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neologisms

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words that are made up that have no common meaning and are not recognized

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neuroleptic malignant syndrome and symptoms

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life-threatening condition that can develop in rxn to antipsychotic meds

severe muscle rigidity
high vitals
diaphoresis
incontinence

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oculogyrics crisis

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med side effect that happens when there’s an imbalance of dopamine and acetylcholine. eyeball muscles tense and eyeballs move towards ceiling

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paranoia

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suspiciousness and guardedness that are unrealistic and often accompanied by grandiosity

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polyuria

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excessive need to urination

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pressured speech

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speaking as if words are being forced out

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prodromal

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early symptom indicating the development of a disease or syndrome

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psychosis

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state where a person is experiencing hallucinations, delusions, or disorganized thoughts, speech, or behavior

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referential thinking

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belief that neutral stimuli have special meaning to the individual .
ex: tv commentator talking to them through tv

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regressed behavior

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acting like a child

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retrocollis

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neck muscles pull back the head

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stereotypy

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repetitive, purposeless movements that idiosyncratic to the individual and to some degree outside of the individual’s control

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stilted language

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overly and inappropriately artificial formal language

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tangentiality

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topic of conversation changes to an entirely different topic that’s within logical progression but causes permanent detour from original focus

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tardive dyskenesia

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late-appearing extrapyramidal side effect of antipsychotic med that involves irregular, repetitive involuntary movements of the mouth, face, and tongue. and other abnormal movements

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torticollis

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neck muscles pulls head side to side

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verbigeration

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purposeless repetition of words or phrases

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waxy flexibility

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posture held in an odd or unusual fixed position for extended periods of time

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word salad

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string of words that are not connected in any way

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