Typical Signs and Symptoms Flashcards
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Severe anxiety associated with motor restlessness; characterized by excessive excitability with easily triggered annoyance or anger
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AGITATION
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Eating of feces and filth
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COPROPHAGIA
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Continuous rotation in which the head is turned; seen in autism
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TWIRLING
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Overinclusion of trivial or irrelevant details that impede the sense of getting to the point
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CIRCUMSTANTIALITY
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Repetition of out of context words, phrases, or ideas
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PERSEVERATION
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Sudden disruption of thought or a break in the flow of ideas
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THOUGHT BLOCKING
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Thoughts are largely narcissistic and egocentric with emphasis on subjectivity rather than objectivity
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AUTISTIC THINKING
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Inability to recognize a physical deficit in oneself
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ANOSOGNOSIA
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Inability to make gestures or to comprehend those made by others
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AMIMIA
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Subjective feeling of motor restlessness manifested by a compelling need to be in a constant motion
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AKATHESIA
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Removal of inhibitory effect as in reduction of the inhibitory function of the cerebral cortex
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DISINHIBITION
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Uncontrollable lying in which patients elaborate fantasies that they freely communicate and act on
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PSEUDOLOGIA PHANTASTICA
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Invention of new words or phrases or the use of conventional words in idiosyncratic ways
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NEOLOGISM
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Development of symbolic physical symptoms and distortions involving the voluntary muscles or special sense organs, not under voluntary control and not explained by any physical disorder
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CONVERSION PHENOMENA
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Observations and objective clinical findings
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SIGNS
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Subjective experiences expressed by the patient
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SYMPTOMS
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A group of signs and symptoms that, together, make a recognizable condition
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SYNDROME
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symptoms are understandable (reality-based) and can be empathized with. no loss of contact with reality and insight is usually maintained
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NEUROSIS
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loss of contact with reality, and the symptoms, such as delusions or hallucinations, are not understandable and cannot be empathized with
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PSYCHOSIS
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Primary consciousness
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AROUSAL
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Secondary consciousness
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AWARENESS
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What we could become aware of quite easily if we switched our attention to it
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PRECONSCIOUS
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What have pushed out of our conscious minds through repression, making it inaccessible, although it continues to influence our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
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UNCONSCIOUS
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Confusion; impaired awareness of time, place, and person
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DISORIENTATION
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Very mild form of altered mental status in which patient has inattention and reduced wakefulness; not fully awake, alert, and oriented
CLOUDING OF CONSCIOUSNESS
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Severe drowsiness in which patient can be aroused by moderate stimuli and then drift back to sleep
LETHARGY
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slowed response to stimulation and tends to sleep more than normal with drowsiness in between sleep states; physical but non-painful stimuli
OBTUNDATION
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Only vigorous and repeated (painful) stimuli will arouse the patient and when undisturbed
STUPOR
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Unarousable unresponsiveness
COMA
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acute reversible mental disorder characterized by some confusion and some impairment of consciousness
DELIRIUM
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Persistent vegetative state with eyes wide open
COMA VIGIL
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Disturbed consciousness with hallucinations
TWILIGHT STATE
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Pathological sleepiness or drowsiness from which one can be aroused to a normal state of consciousness
SOMNOLENCE
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state of impaired awareness with a desire or inclination to sleep
DROWSINESS
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Also known as concentration or focus
ATTENTION
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turn your attention to the instructor, who is just beginning to speak
selective attention
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pay attention for the full 20-minutes
sustained attention / vigilance
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shifting your attention among these competing tasks
divided attention
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sudden noise
distraction
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dimming the noise
inhibition
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listening back to the lecture
sustained attention
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environment change
disengagement
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mood/focus changes
set shifting
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Inability to focus attention
DISTRACTIBILITY
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Blocking out only those that generate anxiety
SELECTIVE ATTENTION
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Excessive attention to and focus on all internal and external stimuli
HYPERVIGILANCE
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Sleeplike state of reduced consciousness and activity
TRANCE
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Compliant and uncritical response to an idea or influence
SUGGESTIBILITY
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Mental illness formed by two (or three) persons, usually involving a common delusional system; also called shared psychotic disorder
FOLIE A DEUX (FOLIES A TROIS)
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Artificially induced alteration of consciousness characterized by heightened suggestibility and receptivity to direction
HYPNOSIS
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reaction to personally significant events
EMOTION
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Feeling of apprehension caused by anticipation of danger, which may be internal or external
ANXIETY
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Unpleasurable emotional state consisting of psychological changes in response to a realistic threat or danger
FEAR
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Physiological or psychic arousal, uneasiness or pressure toward action; unpleasurable alteration in mental or psychic state that seeks relief through action
TENSION
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Acute, intense attack of anxiety associated with personality disorganization; anxiety is overwhelming and accompanied by feelings of impending doom
PANIC
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Dulled emotional tone associated with detachment or indifference
APATHY
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Coexistence of two opposing impulses towards the same thing in the same person at the same time
AMBIVALENCE
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A process by which repressed material, particularly a painful experience or conflict, is brought back to consciousness
ABREACTION
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Failure to live up to self-expectations, often associated with fantasy of how a person will be seen by others
SHAME
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Emotional state associated with self-reproach and need for punishment
GUILT
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Ability to resist an impulse, drive, or temptation to perform an action
IMPULSE CONTROL
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Ecstatic state in which person insists that their experience is inexpressible
INEFFABILITY
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A conscious or unconscious investment of psychic energy in an idea, concept, object, or person
CATHEXIS
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lack of feeling associated with an ordinary emotionally charged subject
Acathexis
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patient's detaching or transferring of emotion from thoughts or ideas
Decathexis
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Pervasive and sustained emotion or feeling tone that influences a person's behavior and colors his perception of being in the world
MOOD
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Observed expression of mood or what the patient's mood appears to be to the clinician
AFFECT
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Emotional tone is in harmony with the accompanying idea, thought, or speech
APPROPRIATE AFFECT
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Emotional tone is out of harmony with the idea, thought, or speech accompanying it
INAPPROPRIATE AFFECT
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Absence or near absence of any signs of affective expression
FLAT AFFECT
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Disturbance of affect manifested by severe reduction in the intensity of the externalized feeling or tone
BLUNTED AFFECT
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Reduction in intensity of feeling tone that is less severe that blunted affect
RESTRICTED AFFECT
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Affective expression characterized by rapid and abrupt changes, unrelated to external stimuli
LABILE AFFECT
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Feeling of unpleasantness or discomfort; mood of general dissatisfaction and restlessness; occurs in depression and anxiety
DYSPHORIA
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Normal range of mood, implying absence of depressed or elevated mood
EUTHYMIA
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Expression of feeling without restraint, frequently with an overestimation of their significance or importance
EXPANSIVE MOOD
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State in which one is easily annoyed and provoked to anger
IRRITABLE MOOD
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Oscillations between euphoria and depression or anxiety
LABILE MOOD
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Air of confidence and enjoyment; mood more cheerful that normal but not necessarily pathologic
ELEVATED MOOD
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Mood consisting of feelings of joy, euphoria, triumph, and intense self-satisfaction or optimism
ELATION
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Mental state characterized by feelings of sadness, loneliness, despair, low self-esteem and self-reproach
DEPRESSED MOOD
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Loss of interest in and withdrawal from all regular and pleasurable activities; often associated with depression
ANHEDONIA
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Alteration in mood and affect consisting of sadness appropriate to a loss; normally self-limited
GRIEF (MOURNING)
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Inability or difficulty in describing or being aware of one's emotion or moods
ALEXITHYMIA
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Mood abnormality with the qualitative characteristics of mania but less insane
HYPOMANIA
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Mood state characterized by elation, agitation, hyperactivity, hypersexuality and accelerated thinking and speaking (flight of ideas)
MANIA
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Severe depressive state characterized by severe anhedonia, early morning awakening, weight loss, profound feelings of guilt. may be associated with suicidal ideation
MELANCHOLIA
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Craving and eating non-food substances
PICA
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Non-pregnant patient has signs and symptoms of pregnancy
PSEUDOCYESIS
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Insatiable hunger and voracious eating followed by self-induced vomiting, strict dieting or extreme exercise
BULIMIA
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motor activity decreases
Akinesia
Bradykinesia
Hypokinesia
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motor activity increases
Agitated
Overactivity
Hyperkinesia
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Pathological imitation of movements of one person by another
ECHOPRAXIA
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Verbal or nonverbal opposition or resistance to outside suggestions and advice. does the opposite of being told
NEGATIVISM
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Temporary sudden loss of muscle tone causing immobility and weakness precipitated by emotional stress and followed by sleep
CATAPLEXY
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Continuous mechanical repetition of speech or physical activities
STEREOTYPY
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Ingrained, habitual involuntary movement
MANNERISM
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Activity carried out without conscious knowledge
AUTOMATISM
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Simple, imitative motion of childhood
MIMICRY
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Forceful, goal-directed action either verbal or physical, motor counterpart of the affect rage, anger, hostility
AGGRESSION
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Behavioral response to an unconscious drive or impulse that brings about temporary partial relief of inner tension
ACTING OUT
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Reduced impulse to act and to think, associated with indifference about consequence of action
ABULIA
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Lack of energy
ANERGIA
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Inability to stand or walk in a normal manner, even though normal leg movements can be performed in sitting or lying down positions
ASTASIA ABASIA
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State in which muscles remain immovable
MUSCLE RIGIDITY
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Lack of coordination
ATAXIA
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Difficulty performing movements; seen in extrapyramidal syndromes
DYSKINESIA
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Rhythmic alteration in movement
TREMOR
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Slow motor activity, with a decrease in spontaneous movement
BRADYKINESIA
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Movement disorder characterized by random and involuntary, quick, jerky, purposeless movements
CHOREA
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Involuntary, violent muscular contraction or spasm
CONVULSION
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attack or sudden onset of certain symptoms such as convulsions, loss of consciousness and psychic or sensory disturbances
SEIZURE
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Slow, sustained contractions of axial or appendicular muscles
DYSTONIA
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Immobile position that is maintained
CATALEPSY
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Agitated purposeless motor activity, uninfluenced by external stimuli
CATATONIC EXCITEMENT
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Stupor in which patients ordinarily are well aware of their surroundings; markedly slowed motor activity often to the point of immobility and seeming unawareness of surroundings
CATATONIC STUPOR
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Fixed and sustained motoric position that is resistant to change
CATATONIC RIGIDITY
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Voluntary assumption of inappropriate or bizarre posture, generally maintained for long periods of time
CATATONIC POSTURING
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Condition where a person can be molded into a position that is maintained
WAXY FLEXIBILITY
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Lack of physical movement, as in extreme immobility in catatonic schizophrenia
AKINESIA
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Physical and mental overactivity that is usually non-productive associated with a feeling of inner turmoil; seen in agitated depression
PSYCHOMOTOR AGITATION
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Absence of voluntary movements or speech in a patient who is apparently alert
AKINETIC MUTISM
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Pathological need to act on impulse that if resisted, produces anxiety; repetitive behavior in response to an obsession
COMPULSION
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Consistent restlessness, overactivity, distractibility, and difficulty learning; as seen in ADHD
HYPERACTIVITY
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Involuntary, spasmodic, and stereotyped movements
TIC
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Pathological overeating
POLYPHAGIA
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Aimless picking or plucking, usually at bed clothes or clothing
FLOCCILLATION
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Sleep walking
SOMNAMBULISM
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refers to the thoughts occurring to the patient
Content
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refers to how thoughts are formed, formulated, and expressed
Process
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Thought that gives little information due to vagueness, empty repetitions or obscure phrases
POVERTY OF CONTENT
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False or unreasonable belief or idea that is sustained beyond the bounds of reason
OVERVALUED IDEA
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Centering of thought content on a particular idea associated with a strong affective tone
PREOCCUPATION OF THOUGHT
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Morbid self preoccupation or self-centeredness; narcissism
EGOMANIA
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Preoccupation with one subject
MONOMANIA
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Exaggerated concern about health that is based on real medical pathology but on unrealistic interpretations of physical signs or sensations as abnormal
HYPOCHONDRIA
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Unwelcome and repetitive thoughts that involuntarily intrude on patient's consciousness, resisted by patient
OBSESSIONAL THOUGHTS
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Repetitive, ritualized behaviors that the patient feels compelled to perform to avoid an increase in anxiety or some dreaded outcome
COMPULSIONS
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Compulsive utterance of obscene words
COPROLALIA
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Persistent, pathological, unrealistic, intense fear of an object or situation; person may recognize that fear is irrational but cannot dispel it
PHOBIA
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Revelation in which immense illumination occurs in association with a sense that one has been chosen to lead and command
NOESIS
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Feeling of mystic unity with an infinite power
UNIO MYSTICA
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False, fixed ideas that are not shared by others and can be divided into bizarre and non-bizarre (absurd, totally implausible, strange belief)
DELUSION
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Pertaining to functioning of one's own body (brain is rotting)
SOMATIC
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Someone is deeply in love with them
EROTOMANIA
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Pathological infidelity
INFIDELITY
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False feeling of remorse or guilt
SELF-ACCUSATION
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False belief that one is being harassed, cheated, or persecuted
PERSECUTION
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Belief that behavior of others refers to oneself; persons feel falsely that others are talking about them
REFERENCE
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Exaggerated concept of one's importance and identity
GRANDIOSE
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False belief that a person's thought will, or feelings are being controlled by external forces
CONTROL
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Thoughts are associated by the sound of words rather than their meaning
CLANG ASSOCIATIONS
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Breakdown in both the logical connection between ideas and the overall sense of goal directedness. The words make sentences but the sentences do not make sense
DERAILMENT / LOOSE ASSOCIATION
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A succession of multiple associations so that thoughts seem to move abruptly from idea to idea
FLIGHT OF IDEAS
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In response to a question, the patient gives a reply that is appropriate to the general topic without actually answering the questions
TANGENTIALITY
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Confused, often repetitious, language with no apparent meaning or relationship to the idea
WORD SALAD
150
Thinking containing erroneous
conclusions or internal contraindications
ILLOGICAL THINKING
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Mental activity that follows a totally subjective and idiosyncratic system of logic and fails to take the facts of reality or experience into consideration
DEREISM
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Thoughts, words, or actions assume power
MAGICAL THINKING
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Meaningless and stereotyped repetition of words or phrase
VERBIGERATION
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Pathological repeating of words or phrases of another person
ECHOLALIA
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Answer is not in harmony with the question
IRRELEVANT ANSWER
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increase in amount of spontaneous speech; may be rapid, loud, and accelerated
PRESSURED SPEECH
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Copious, pressured, and coherent speech; uncontrollable and excessive talking
LOGORRHEA
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Restriction in speech; replies may be monosyllabic
POVERTY OF SPEECH
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Verbal response only when asked or spoken to
NON-SPONTANEOUS SPEECH
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Speech that is adequate in amount but conveys little information because of vagueness, emptiness or stereotyped phrases
POVERTY OF CONTENT OF SPEECH
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Loss of normal speech melody
DYSPROSODY
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Difficulty in articulation, not in word-finding or grammar
DYSARTHRIA
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Frequent repetition or prolongation of a sound or syllable, leading to markedly impaired speech fluency
STUTTERING
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Disturbance of fluency involving an abnormally rapid rate and erratic rhythm of speech that impedes intelligibility; person is unaware of impairment
CLUTTERING
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Nonsense speech associated with marked impairment in comprehension; as seen in Wernicke's aphasia
ACULALIA
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Abnormally slow speech
BRADYLALIA
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Impairment of voice production
DYSPHONIA
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False perceptions in the absence of stimuli to account for them; Most commonly auditory, but may also be visual, tactile, olfactory, gustatory
HALLUCINATION
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Misperception of stimuli
ILLUSION
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Selective loss or disuse of knowledge of specific objects because of emotional disturbances
AGNOSIA
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Inability to recognize a part of one's body as own
SOMATOPAGNOSIA
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Inability to recognize objects or persons seen
VISUAL AGNOSIA
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Inability to recognize objects by touch
ASTEREOGNOSIS
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Inability to recognize faces
PROSOPAGNOSIA
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Inability to carry out specific tasks
APRAXIA
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Inability to comprehend more than one element into a visual scene at a time or to integrate the parts into a whole
SIMULTAGNOSIA
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Inability to perform rapid alternating movements
DYSDIADOCHOKINESIA
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Sensory syndrome preceding an attack
AURA
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Unconscious defense mechanism involving segregation of any group of mental or behavioral processes from the rest of the person's psychic activity
DISSOCIATION
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Loss of sensory modalities resulting from emotional conflicts
HYSTERICAL ANESTHESIA
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State in which objects seem larger than they are
MACROPSIA
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State in which objects seem smaller than they are
MICROPSIA
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Feeling that one is not oneself of that something has changed ("I am not really me in a real world"
DEPERSONALIZATION
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Feeling that one's environment has changed in some strange way that is difficult to describe ("I am real, the world around me is not")
DEREALIZATION
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Dissociative disorder characterized by a period of almost complete amnesia, during which a person flees from an immediate life situation and begins a different life pattern
FUGUE
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One person who appears at different times to be two or more entirely different characters
MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES
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Partial or total inability to recall past experiences, may be organic or emotional in origin; affects declarative memory only
AMNESIA
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Impaired ability to learn new information or the inability to recall previously learned information, as a result of which there is significant impairment in social or occupational functioning
AMNESTIC DISORDER
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Exaggerated degree of retention and recall; can be elicited by hypnosis or certain prodigies, may also be a feature of OCD
HYPERMNESIA
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Unusually vivid or exact mental image of objects previously seen or imagined
EIDETIC IMAGE
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A consciously tolerable memory covering for painful memory
SCREEN MEMORY
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Unconscious forgetting of unacceptable ideas or impulses
REPRESSION
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Momentary forgetting of a name or proper noun
LETHOLOGICA
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Amnesia experienced by alcoholics about behavior during drinking bouts
BLACKOUT
195
False recognition
FAUSSE RECONNAISSANCE
196
Memory becomes unintentionally (unconsciously) distorted by being filtered through a person's emotional, cognitive, and experiential states
RETROSPECTIVE FALSIFICATION
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Unconscious filling of gaps in memory by imagining experiences that have no basis in fact
CONFABULATION
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Illusion of visual recognition in which a new situation is incorrectly regarded as prepetition of previous experience
DEJA VU
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Illusion that one is hearing something one has heard previously
DEJA ENTENDU
200
Condition in which a thought never entertained before is incorrectly regarded as a repetition of a previous thought
DEJA PENSE
201
A person's recollection and belief by the patient of an event that did not actually occur (emotional, physical, or sexual trauma that did not occur)
FALSE MEMORY
