Signs and symptoms Flashcards
What is a stereotypy?
A fixed pattern of physical action or speech (K&S)
What is echopraxia?
A pathological imitation of movements of one person by another (K&S)
What is cataplexy?
A temporary loss of muscle tone and weakness precipitated by a variety of emotional states (K&S)
What is a mannerism?
An ingrained habitual involuntary movement
Sundowning is associated with oversedation with medication T/F
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What is verbigeration?
Meaningless repetition of specific words and phrases
What is concrete thought characterized by?
An inability to conceptualize beyond immediate experience or beyond actual things and events (K&S)
What are paramnesias?
The falsification of memory by distortion of recall (K&S)
What are eidetic images?
Visual memories of almost hallucinatory vividness
What id the Alice in Wonderland effect?
Dysmegalopsia- a distortion in which the size & shape of objects is misperceived.
With what is the trailing phenomenon associated?
Hallucinogenic drugs- moving objects are seen as discrete objects
What type of aphasia is Broca’s aphasia?
Expressive. Understanding is intact
What is fluent aphasia characterised by?
An inability to understand the spoken word. Also known as Wernicke’s aphasia
What is paraphasia?
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
In which type of aphasia is speech fluid but unintelligible?
Wernicke’s
What are autoscopic hallucinations?
Hallucinations of one’s own physical self
Cocaine intoxication is sometimes associated with which type of hallucination?
Haptic (touch), specifically formication - the sensation of insects crawling over one’s skin
Which type of hallucination (not auditory) is sometimes associated with psychotic depression?
Olfactory- eg death, rotting
What is lethologica?
The temporary inability to remember a name or a proper noun
What is a twilight state?
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
What is a functional hallucination?
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
What is a reflex hallucination?
A stimulus in one sensory modality produces a hallucination in another
A kind of hallucination often associated with affective disturbance in delirium tremens
Haptic Lilliputian hallucinations- often of little animals or people and intermingled with affect like terror
What is a delusional mood?
The patient has the knowledge that there is something going on around him which concerns him, but he does not know what it is
What do serial 7s test?
Attention
What is the term for the ability of a test to produce stable scores when readministered at different times?
Test- retest reliability
What are circumlocutions?
Changjng around words or avoiding certain words
