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Signs and Symptoms Flashcards

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

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anxiety

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unfocused and pervasive fear that is not attached to any idea

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free-floating anxiety

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anxiety caused by a consciously recognized and realistic danger

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fear

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motor restlessness associated with severe anxiety

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agitation

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unpleasant increased motor and psychological activity

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tension

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

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panic

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dulled emotional tone associated with indifference or detachment

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apathy

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presence of 2 opposing impulses or feelings toward the same thing

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ambivalence

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loss or decrease in appetite

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anorexia

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increase in appetite and food intake

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hyperphagia

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difficulty or lack of the ability to fall asleep

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insomnia

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excessive sleeping

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hypersomnia

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

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diurnal variation

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decreased sexual interest, drive, performance

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diminished libido

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pathological imitation of movements of another person

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echopraxia

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these are called motor anomalies

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

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

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negativism

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

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cataplexy

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repetitive fixed pattern of physical action or speech

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stereotypy

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deep-seated/ingrained and habitual involuntary movement

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mannerism

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21
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automatic following of suggestions

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command automatism or automatic obedience

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voicelessness that is not caused by structural abnormalities or physical conditions

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mutism

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

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psychomotor agitation

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involuntary, spasmodic motor movement

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tic

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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)

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automatic activity compulsive in nature, anxiety-reducing in origin

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ritual

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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

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

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acting out

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new word or phrase whose derivation cannot be understood

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neologism

30
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incoherent, essentially incomprehensible, mixture of words and phrases commonly seen in far-advanced cases of schizophrenia

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word salad

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

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echolalia

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

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derailment

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

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glossolalia

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

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delusion of poverty

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delusion pertaining to the functioning of one’s body

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somatic delusion

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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

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

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delusion of grandeur

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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

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

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delusion of self-accusation

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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)

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

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delusion of infidelity

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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).

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morbid self-preoccupation or self-centeredness

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egomania

44
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mental state characterized by preoccupation with one subject

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monomania

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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

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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

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

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coprolalia

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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

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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

50
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copious, coherent, logical speech; excessive talking observed in manic episodes of bipolar disorder

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verbomania/volubility

51
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restriction in the amount of speech used; replies may be mono-syllabic

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poverty of speech

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

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stuttering

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

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hallucination

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false perception in which objects are seen as reduced in size

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Liliputian Hallucination

55
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Hallucinations, most often auditory, that are associated with chronic alcohol abuse and that occur within a clear sensorium

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hallucinosis

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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

57
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misperception or misinterpretation of real external sensory stimuli

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illusion

58
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loss of sensory modalities resulting from emotional conflicts

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hysterical anesthesia

59
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a subjective sense of being unreal, strange, or unfamiliar to oneself

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depersonalization

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

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derealization

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

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fugue

62
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partial or total inability to recall past experiences; may be organic or emotional in origin.

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amnesia

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falsification of memory by distortion of recall

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paramnesia

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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

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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

66
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exaggerated degree of retention and recall

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hypermnesia

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a consciously tolerable memory covering for a painful memory

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screen memory

68
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a defense mechanism characterized by unconscious forgetting of unacceptable ideas or impulses

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repression

69
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organic and global deterioration of intellectual functioning without clouding of consciousness

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dementia

70
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clinical features resembling a dementia not caused by an organic mental dysfunction; most often caused by depression

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pseudodementia

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