Behaviours

Front 1

OMEGA SIGN

Back 1

Furrowed brow cause by sustained contraction of the CORRUGATOR muscle.

Seen in DEPRESSION.

Front 2

VERAGUTH'S FOLDS

Back 2

Upward, inward PEAKING of the UPPER EYELIDS.

Seen in DEPRESSION

Front 3

ABULIA

Back 3

↓ activity d/t lack of ability/power to execute action, despite desire to do so.

-- often a/w ↑/↓ latency of mentation + speaking

-- slow at simple cognitive tasks (e.g. counting backwards)

Front 4

AGITATION

Back 4

condition of apparent emotional distress

-- can't hold still / pay attention

-- evidence of heightened tension

Front 5

AGGRESSION

Back 5

Behaviours/attitudes reflecting rage, hostility, + potential for physical / verbal destructiveness.

-- expression of negative affect meant to assault, harm, manipulate others.

Front 6

AKATHISIA

Back 6

SUBJECTIVE feeling of MOTOR RESTLESSNESS

-- esp of legs

-- usu d/t antipsychotic SDE

Front 7

AKINESIA

Back 7

-- marked ↓ in ACCESSORY MOTOR ACTIVITY (arms swinging w/walking)

AND

-- ↓normal AUTOMATIC MOVEMENTS (blinking, swallowing, periodic posture adjustment)

-- +/- assoc ABULIA

Front 8

APATHY

Back 8

Lack of emotions / desire, or not caring.

-- Depr
-- SCZ

Front 9

AUTOMATISMS

Back 9

INVOLUNTARY movements occurring in ALTERED CONSCIOUSNESS

Front 10

BRADYKINESIA

Back 10

SLOWING of MOTOR ACTIVITY

-- Extrapyramidal syn (Parkinsons)
-- SCZ
-- Depr

Front 11

CATALEPSY

Back 11

MAINTENANCE of certain bodily POSTURES for PROLONGED PERIODS of time.

Front 12

CATAPLEXY

Back 12

TEMPORARY state of sudden INVOLUNTARY MUSCLE RELAXATION → LOSS of POSTURAL MUSCLE TONE

-- w/INTACT CONSCIOUSNESS

Front 13

CATATONIA

Back 13

-- Severe psychotic disturbance of MOTOR fn.

-- Marked ↓ in reactivity to environment.

Front 14

CATATONIC STUPOR

Back 14

Extreme degree of COMPLETE UNAWARENESS.

Front 15

CATATONIC RIGIDITY

Back 15

Maintaining a RIGID POSTURE

AND

RESISTING efforts to be moved

Front 16

CATATONIC NEGATIVISM

Back 16

ACTIVE RESISTANCE to instruction / attempts to be moved

Front 17

CATATONIC POSTURING

Back 17

Assumption of INAPPROPRIATE / BIZARRE POSTURES.

Front 18

CATATONIC EXCITEMENT

Back 18

PURPOSELESS + UNSTIMULATED EXCESSIVE motor activity.

Front 19

ATHETOID MOVEMENTS

Back 19

ABNORMAL SNAKELIKE MOVEMENTS that are
-- SLOW
-- WRITHING
-- INVOLUNTARY
-- Involving EXTREMITIES (fingers, toes, tongue)

Front 20

CHOREIFORM MOVEMENTS

Back 20

IRREGULAR, INVOLUNTARY movements of FACE, LIMB, TRUNK muscles

-- faster, jerkier, ↑discrete vs athetoid movements.

-- implies BASAL GANGLIA dysfn

Front 21

COMPULSION

Back 21

UNWANTED EGO-DYSTONIC IMPULSE to perform certain MOTOR BEHAVIOURS.

Front 22

DYSTONIAS

Back 22

INVOLUNTARY ↑ MUSCLE TONE → SUSTAINED CONTORTIONS

-- OCULOGYRIC CRISIS = eyes rolling up under upper eyelids
-- OPISTHOTONIS = backward arching of back+neck

Front 23

ECHOPRAXIA

Back 23

INVOLUNTARY + INAPPROPRIATE
REPETITION + IMITATION of another person's MOVEMENTS