Signs and Symptoms

Question 1

a feeling of apprehension that is caused by anticipation of internal or external danger/threat

Answer 1

anxiety

Question 2

unfocused and pervasive fear that is not attached to any idea

Answer 2

free-floating anxiety

Question 3

anxiety caused by a consciously recognized and realistic danger

Answer 3

fear

Question 4

motor restlessness associated with severe anxiety

Answer 4

agitation

Question 5

unpleasant increased motor and psychological activity

Answer 5

tension

Question 6

acute, episodic, intense anxiety attack associated with overwhelming feelings of dread

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panic

Question 7

dulled emotional tone associated with indifference or detachment

Answer 7

apathy

Question 8

presence of 2 opposing impulses or feelings toward the same thing

Answer 8

ambivalence

Question 9

loss or decrease in appetite

Answer 9

anorexia

Question 10

increase in appetite and food intake

Answer 10

hyperphagia

Question 11

difficulty or lack of the ability to fall asleep

Answer 11

insomnia

Question 12

excessive sleeping

Answer 12

hypersomnia

Question 13

mood is worst in the morning, after awakening, and improves as day progresses

Answer 13

diurnal variation

Question 14

decreased sexual interest, drive, performance

Answer 14

diminished libido

Question 15

pathological imitation of movements of another person

Answer 15

echopraxia

Question 16

these are called motor anomalies

Answer 16

catatonia (catalepsy, catatonic excitement, catatonic stupor, catatonic rigidity, catatonic posturing)

Question 17

motiveless resistance to all instructions or to all attempts to be moved

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negativism

Question 18

temporary muscle weakness and loss of muscle tone because of different emotional states

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cataplexy

Question 19

repetitive fixed pattern of physical action or speech

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stereotypy

Question 20

deep-seated/ingrained and habitual involuntary movement

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mannerism

Question 21

automatic following of suggestions

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command automatism or automatic obedience

Question 22

voicelessness that is not caused by structural abnormalities or physical conditions

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mutism

Question 23

excessive motor and cognitive overactivity, nonproductive, in response to inner tension

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psychomotor agitation

Question 24

involuntary, spasmodic motor movement

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tic

Question 25

uncontrollable impulse to perform an act repetitively. if resisted, produces anxiety; repetitive behavior in response to an obsession or performed according to certain rules

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compulsion (dipsomania - alcohol; kleptomania - steal; nymphomania - coitus in women; satyriasis - coitus in men; trichotillomania - pulling hair)

Question 26

automatic activity compulsive in nature, anxiety-reducing in origin

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ritual

Question 27

forceful goal-directed action that may be verbal or physical; the motor counterpart of the affect of rage, anger, or hostility

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aggression

Question 28

direct expression of an unconscious wish or impulse in action; unconscious fantasy is lived out impulsively in behavior

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acting out

Question 29

new word or phrase whose derivation cannot be understood

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neologism

Question 30

incoherent, essentially incomprehensible, mixture of words and phrases commonly seen in far-advanced cases of schizophrenia

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word salad

Question 31

a person’s psychopathological repeating of words or phrases of by another; tends to be repetitive and persistent

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echolalia

Question 32

gradual or sudden deviation in train of thought without blocking; sometimes used synonymously with loosening of association

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derailment

Question 33

unintelligible jargon that has meaning to the speaker but not to the listener

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glossolalia

Question 34

false belief that one is bereft or will be deprived of all material possessions

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delusion of poverty

Question 35

delusion pertaining to the functioning of one's body

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somatic delusion

Question 36

false belief of being harassed or persecuted; often found in litigious patients who have a pathological tendency to take legal action because of imagined mistreatment

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delusion of persecution

Question 37

exaggerated conception of one's importance, power, or identity

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delusion of grandeur

Question 38

false belief that the behavior of others refers to oneself have a particular and unusual significance; persons falsely feel that others are talking about them; thought broadcasting

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delusion of reference

Question 39

false feeling of remorse and guilt. Seen in depression with psychotic features

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delusion of self-accusation

Question 40

false belief that a person's will, thoughts, or feelings are being controlled by external forces.

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delusion of control (thought withdrawal, thought insertion, thought broadcasting)

Question 41

false belief that one's lover is unfaithful. Sometimes called pathological jealousy

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delusion of infidelity

Question 42

delusional belief, more common in women than in men, that someone is deeply in love with them

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Erotomania (also known as de Clérembault syndrome).

Question 43

morbid self-preoccupation or self-centeredness

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egomania

Question 44

mental state characterized by preoccupation with one subject

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monomania

Question 45

exaggerated concern about health that is based not on real medical pathology, but on unrealistic interpretations of physical signs or sensations as abnormal

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hypochondria

Question 46

persistent and recurrent idea, thought, or impulse that cannot be eliminated from consciousness by logic or reasoning; these are involuntary and ego-dystonic

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obsession

Question 47

involuntary use of vulgar or obscene language. Observed in some cases of schizophrenia and in Tourette's syndrome

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coprolalia

Question 48

persistent, pathological, unrealistic, intense fear of an object or situation; the person may realize that the fear is irrational but, nonetheless, cannot dispel it

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phobia

Question 49

a revelation in which immense illumination occurs in association with a sense that one has been chosen to lead and command.

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noesis

Question 50

copious, coherent, logical speech; excessive talking observed in manic episodes of bipolar disorder

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verbomania/volubility

Question 51

restriction in the amount of speech used; replies may be mono-syllabic

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poverty of speech

Question 52

frequent repetition or prolongation of a sound or syllable, leading to markedly impaired speech fluency

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stuttering

Question 53

false sensory perception not associated with real external stimuli; there may or may not be a delusional interpretation

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hallucination

Question 54

false perception in which objects are seen as reduced in size

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Liliputian Hallucination

Question 55

Hallucinations, most often auditory, that are associated with chronic alcohol abuse and that occur within a clear sensorium

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hallucinosis

Question 56

perceptual abnormality associated with hallucinogenic drugs in which moving object are seen as a series of discrete and discontinuous stages

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trailing phenomenon

Question 57

misperception or misinterpretation of real external sensory stimuli

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illusion

Question 58

loss of sensory modalities resulting from emotional conflicts

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hysterical anesthesia

Question 59

a subjective sense of being unreal, strange, or unfamiliar to oneself

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depersonalization

Question 60

a subjective sense that the environment is strange or unreal; a feeling of changed reality

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derealization

Question 61

taking on a new identity with amnesia for the old identity; often involves travel or wandering to new environments

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fugue

Question 62

partial or total inability to recall past experiences; may be organic or emotional in origin.

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amnesia

Question 63

falsification of memory by distortion of recall

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paramnesia

Question 64

unconscious filling of gaps in memory by imagined or untrue experiences that patient believes but that have no basis in fact

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confabulation

Question 65

illusion of visual recognition in which a new situation is correctly regarded as a repetition of a previous memory.

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deja vu

Question 66

exaggerated degree of retention and recall

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hypermnesia

Question 67

a consciously tolerable memory covering for a painful memory

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screen memory

Question 68

a defense mechanism characterized by unconscious forgetting of unacceptable ideas or impulses

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repression

Question 69

organic and global deterioration of intellectual functioning without clouding of consciousness

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dementia

Question 70

clinical features resembling a dementia not caused by an organic mental dysfunction; most often caused by depression

Answer 70

pseudodementia