Signs and symptoms

Question 1

What is a stereotypy?

Answer 1

A fixed pattern of physical action or speech (K&S)

Question 2

What is echopraxia?

Answer 2

A pathological imitation of movements of one person by another (K&S)

Question 3

What is cataplexy?

Answer 3

A temporary loss of muscle tone and weakness precipitated by a variety of emotional states (K&S)

Question 4

What is a mannerism?

Answer 4

An ingrained habitual involuntary movement

Question 5

Sundowning is associated with oversedation with medication T/F

Answer 5

T

Question 6

What is verbigeration?

Answer 6

Meaningless repetition of specific words and phrases

Question 7

What is concrete thought characterized by?

Answer 7

An inability to conceptualize beyond immediate experience or beyond actual things and events (K&S)

Question 8

What are paramnesias?

Answer 8

The falsification of memory by distortion of recall (K&S)

Question 9

What are eidetic images?

Answer 9

Visual memories of almost hallucinatory vividness

Question 10

What id the Alice in Wonderland effect?

Answer 10

Dysmegalopsia- a distortion in which the size & shape of objects is misperceived.

Question 11

With what is the trailing phenomenon associated?

Answer 11

Hallucinogenic drugs- moving objects are seen as discrete objects

Question 12

What type of aphasia is Broca’s aphasia?

Answer 12

Expressive. Understanding is intact

Question 13

What is fluent aphasia characterised by?

Answer 13

An inability to understand the spoken word. Also known as Wernicke’s aphasia

Question 14

What is paraphasia?

Answer 14

A form of abnormal speech in which one word is substituted for another, the irrelevant word generally resembling the original in morphology, meaning or phonetic composition

Question 15

In which type of aphasia is speech fluid but unintelligible?

Answer 15

Wernicke’s

Question 16

What are autoscopic hallucinations?

Answer 16

Hallucinations of one’s own physical self

Question 17

Cocaine intoxication is sometimes associated with which type of hallucination?

Answer 17

Haptic (touch), specifically formication - the sensation of insects crawling over one’s skin

Question 18

Which type of hallucination (not auditory) is sometimes associated with psychotic depression?

Answer 18

Olfactory- eg death, rotting

Question 19

What is lethologica?

Answer 19

The temporary inability to remember a name or a proper noun

Question 20

What is a twilight state?

Answer 20

Disturbed consciousness with hallucinations.

According to Sims it has three components: (1) Abrupt onset and end (2) variable duration hours to weeks and (3) unexpected violence or emotional outbursts during otherwise quiet or normal behaviour

It is sometimes associated with temporal lobe phenomena or other organic syndromes

Question 21

What is a functional hallucination?

Answer 21

An external stimulus is necessary to provoke the hallucination, but the normal perception of the stimulus and and the hallucination in the same modality are experienced simultaneously. Eg a schizophrenic patient hearing voices when the taps are running

Question 22

What is a reflex hallucination?

Answer 22

A stimulus in one sensory modality produces a hallucination in another

Question 23

A kind of hallucination often associated with affective disturbance in delirium tremens

Answer 23

Haptic Lilliputian hallucinations- often of little animals or people and intermingled with affect like terror

Question 24

What is a delusional mood?

Answer 24

The patient has the knowledge that there is something going on around him which concerns him, but he does not know what it is

Question 25

What do serial 7s test?

Answer 25

Attention

Question 26

What is the term for the ability of a test to produce stable scores when readministered at different times?

Answer 26

Test- retest reliability

Question 27

What are circumlocutions?

Answer 27

Changjng around words or avoiding certain words