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Terms and Definitions Flashcards

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Dysthymia

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A chronic state of low mood, usually with an insidious onset lasting at least 2 years

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Euthymia

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Normal, non-depressed, reasonably positive mood

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Mood

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A person’s predominant feeling at a given time (season/climate)

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Affect

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Short-lived, observable pattern of behaviour that expresses the subjective emotional state of an individual (weather)

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Alexithymia

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Inability to express one’s emotions

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Anhedonia

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Total inability to enjoy life

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Psychomotor retardation

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  • Abnormal stillness
  • Abnormally slow walking
  • Abnormally long time to initiate movement
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Flight of ideas

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  • Rapid flow of thought
  • Accelerated speech with abrupt changes in topic
  • Loss of normal structure of thought
  • Muddled
  • Often seen in manic patients
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Pressure of Speech

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  • Subjects talk too much
  • Pressure to get words out
  • Fast, loud speech with unnecessary words
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Depersonalisation

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  • Peculiar change in awareness of self
  • Patient feels unreal and detached
  • Retains some understanding and understands condition is abnormal
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Illusion

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A false perception of a real stimulus

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Affect illusion

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Emotional state leads to the incorrect interpretation of a shadow

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Pareidolia

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Perceive formed objects from ambiguous stimuli - penis in clouds

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Completion illusion

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Due to inattention, an incomplete object is perceived as complete

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Pseudohallucination

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  • Perceptual experience that is not concretely real

- Lack qualities of full real perceptions

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Hallucination

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  • False perception that occurs in the absence of a stimulus

- Person experiencing has fully real experience

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Thought Echo

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  • As if own thoughts are being spoken out loud

- May have slight change in echo

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Thought Withdrawal

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Subject feels that thoughts have been removed from head by an external agency so has no thoughts

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Thought Broadcast

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  • Subject feels that thoughts are being shared with others

- Often with large numbers of people via telepathy, radio or TV

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Delusion

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A fixed, firmly held belief that is held with unshakeable condition despite overwhelming evidence by the subject’s cultural/religious background

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Delusions of control/passivity

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Subjects thoughts, feelings, actions are not their own but are being imposed/controlled by an outside force

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Delusional perception

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  • Patient receives normal perception which is then associated and interpreted with delusional meaning and has immense personal meaning
  • Associating normal perception with something ridiculous like seeing a red car means that you’re going to die in 17 days
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Negative symptoms

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  • Poverty of speech, flat affect, poor motivation and poor attention
  • Can result in low activity levels and poor self-care
  • Common in chronic schizophrenia
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Clouding of consciousness

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  • Deterioration in thinking attention, perception and memory

- Drowsiness and reduced awareness of environment

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Lability

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  • Subject’s affect is rapidly changeable and there are marked fluctuations
  • Emotional incontinence in extreme form
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Nihilistic Delusions

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Delusion of being dead, no longer existing, about to die or experience terrible doom

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Grandiose Delusions

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Delusions of being of a special status, special powers, special purpose i.e. the chosen one

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Aphasia

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Mute

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Concrete thinking

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Inability to understand abstract ideas or concepts, literalness of understanding or expression

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2nd person auditory hallucinations

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Voices talk to subject

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3rd person auditory hallucinations

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Voices talk to each other about subject

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Ideas of reference

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Delusional belief that innocuous events or coincidences are directly linked and have personal significance to the subject - paranoia usually

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Loosening of associations

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  • Loss of normal structured thinking
  • Subjects thoughts are muddled and illogical without clarity
  • Thought disorder
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Neologisms

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New words that have no real meaning

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Perseveration

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  • Repetition of a particular response despite the absence or cessation of the stimulus
  • Often seen in organic brain disorders

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