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Conation / Psychomotor activity / motor behaviour

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Activity expressing a person’s impulses, drives, wishes, instincts, cravings and motivations

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Psychomotor retardation

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Decreased conation and motor behaviour expressing impulses, cravings, drive and wishes

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Psychomotor agitation

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Increased motor behaviour and conation expressing impulses, cravings, drive and wishes

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Catatonia

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Unresponsiveness to external stimuli

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Negativism

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A form of catatonia: Motiveless resistance against instruction, questioning or to be moved

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Stereotyped behaviour

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A symptom of catatonia - a repetitive fixed pattern of motor behaviour

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Mannerisms and tics

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A common symptom of catatonia

-habitual, repetitive, ingrained, unconscious movements

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Echopraxia

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A symptom of catatonia

-pathological imitation of another person’s movement

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Ataxia

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Muscle incoordination

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Tremor

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Involuntary, rapid, rhythmical alternating movement

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Chorea

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Involuntary, rapid, random, jerky purposeless movement

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Dyskinesia

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Difficulty performing voluntary movements

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Dystonia

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Sustained contractions of opposing muscle groups of the trunk or limbs

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Akathisia

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  • feeling of inner restlessness and muscle tension secondary to antipsychotic medication
  • presents with pacing and other psychomotor agitation signs
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Echolalia

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Pathological imitation of another person’s speech

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Logorhhoea

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Increase in quantity of speech

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Poverty of speech

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Decrease in quantity of speech

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Poverty of speech content

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Adequate amount of speech, but lacks information (vague)

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Pressure of speech

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Rapid speech of increased quantity that is difficult to interrupt

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Nonspontaneous speech

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Speech only in response to questions

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Dysprosody

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Loss of normal melody / prosody / rhythm of speech

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Stuttering

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Frequent repetition or prolongation of a sound or syllable leading to impaired speech fluency

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Dysarthria

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Problem with articulation (pronunciation of words)

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Aphasia

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Problem with language output

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Unpleasant/low mood

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Dysphoric / melancholic

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Normal range of mood

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Euthymic mood

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Abnormally increased mood “high”

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Ecstatic
Elevated
Euphoric
Elated

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Depressed

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Psychopathologically sad state

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Mania

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Mood characterised by elation, hyperactivity, hypersexuality, pressured speech and thought

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Labile mood

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Alternating between depression and elation

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Alexithymic

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Inability to be aware of or describe one’s emotions

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Anhedonic

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Loss of interest in all pleasurable activities

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Affect

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The objectively observed expression of emotion

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Restricted affect

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Severe reduction of observable expression of emotion

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Blunted affect

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Even greater (than restricted) reduction in observed expression of emotion

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Flat affect

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Absence / near absence of observable expression of emotion

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Appropriate affect

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Observable expression of emotion is in harmony with mood

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Inappropriate affect

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Observable expression of emotion isn’t in harmony with the mood described

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Anxiety

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Feeling of apprehension caused by anticipation of danger

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Fear

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Anxiety caused by a real or realistic danger

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Phobia

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Persistent irrational, exaggerated, pathological dread of a specific situation or stimulus

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Panic attack

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Acute, episodic, intense attack of anxiety with autonomic symptoms associated with overwhelming feelings of dread

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Obsession

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Pathological persistence of an irresistible thought or feeling that can’t be eliminated from consciousness by logical effort (associated with anxiety)

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Compulsion

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Pathological need to act on an impulse

Obsession, that if resisted, produces anxiety

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Psychosis

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Inability to distinguish reality from fantasy

46
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3 groups of psychotic symptoms

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Disordered thought form (how we think)
-manifests as disorganised speech
Disordered thought content (what we think of)
-delusions
Disordered perception
-hallucinations and illusions
47
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Overinclusiveness

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A type of thought form disorder

Speech containing unnecessary excessive detail

48
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Perseveration

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A type of thought form disorder

Persistent response to a previous stimulus, even following a new stimulus

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Verbigeration

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A type of thought form disorder

Meaningless repetition of specific words or phrases

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Word salad

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A type of thought form disorder

Incoherent mixture of words or phrases

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Neologisms

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A type of thought form disorder

Made up words that don’t form part of any language

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Echolalia

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A type of thought form disorder

Pathological repeating of words or phrases of one person by another

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Delusion

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Fixed false beliefs based on incorrect inferences about external reality, and that cannot be corrected by reasoning

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Delusion of persecution

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Belief of being harrassed, cheated or persecuted

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Delusion of grandeur

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Belief of exaggerated importance, power or identity

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Delusion of reference

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Belief that behaviour of others refers to him/herself

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Delusion of poverty

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Belief or being bereft of all material possessions

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Nihilistic delusion

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Belief that oneself, others or the world is non-existent or coming to an end

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Somatic delusion

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Belief surrounding a part of the body

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Delusion of control

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Belief that one’s thoughts, will or feelings is being controlled by external forces

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Bizarre delusion

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Absurd, totally implausible, strange belief

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Hallucination

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False sensory perception not associated with real external stimuli

  • auditory
  • visual
  • olfactory
  • gustatory
  • tactile
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Cenesthetic hallucination

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Perception of sensation in an organ unable to experience sensation

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Hypnagogic hallucination

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Nonpathological perception occurring while falling asleep

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Hypnopompic hallucination

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Nonpathological perception occurring while awakening

from sleep

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Illusion

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Misperception / misinterpretation of real sensory stimuli

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