Bs 6.2

Front 1

Disorientation

Back 1

Confusion about time/place/self

Front 2

Alogia

Back 2

An impoverishment in thinking inferred by observing speech and language behavior (may exhibit "poverty of speech/content")

Front 3

Aphasia

Back 3

Impairment in understanding/transmission of ideas by language

Front 4

Dysarthria

Back 4

Imperfect, physical articulation of speech

Front 5

Dysprosody

Back 5

Loss of nl speech melody/prose

Front 6

Echolalia

Back 6

Pathological
Parrot-like, senseless repitiion of words just spoken by another person

Front 7

Pressured speech

Back 7

High volume, fast and difficult to interrupt

Front 8

Psychomotor agitation

Back 8

Excessive motor activity associated with inner tension (i.e. fidgeting)

Front 9

Akathesia

Back 9

Motor restlessness shown by "need to move"
Side-effect of anti-psychotic medications

Front 10

Ataxia

Back 10

Loss of coordination

Front 11

Catalepsy

Back 11

"Waxy flexibility"
Rigid maintenance of a body position

Front 12

Cataplexy

Back 12

Sudden, bilateral loss of muscle tone

Front 13

Catatonic

Back 13

Motor immobility (catalepsy), excessive motor activity, negativism

Front 14

Negativism

Back 14

Motiveless opposition/resistance to intructions or attempts to be moved

Front 15

Conversion Symptom

Back 15

An alteration/loss in voluntary motor/sensory functioning

Front 16

Dyskinesia

Back 16

Disturbance/distortion of movements

Front 17

Dystonia

Back 17

Disordered tonicity of muscles

Front 18

Echopraxia

Back 18

Repetition/imitation of another's movements

Front 19

Nystagmus

Back 19

Involuntary movement of eyes characterized by slow track and fast return

Front 20

Retardation

Back 20

Slowing movement of movements/speech (often seen in depression)

Front 21

Stereotyped Movements

Back 21

Repetitive, "driven," non-functional behavior (i.e. head banging)

Front 22

Tic

Back 22

Involuntary, rapid, recurrent movement or vocalization

Front 23

Affect

Back 23

Pattern of observable behaviors that is the expression of an emotion.

Front 24

Disturbances in Affect

Back 24

Blunted, flat, inappropriate, labile and restricted

Front 25

Blunted Affect

Back 25

Significant Reduction in the intensity or emotional expression (vs. restricted, mild)

Front 26

Flat Affect

Back 26

Absence/near-absence of affective expression

Front 27

Inappropriate Affect

Back 27

Discordance between expression and content (i.e. laughing at death)

Front 28

Labile

Back 28

Rapid, shifts in affective expression

Front 29

Restricted

Back 29

Mild reduction in the intensity of emotional expression (vs. blunted, significant)

Front 30

Mood

Back 30

Pervasive and sustained feeling tone - experienced internally and colors perception of world

Front 31

Dysphoric Mood

Back 31

Unpleasant/uncomfortable feeling tone

Front 32

Elevated Mood

Back 32

Exaggerated feeling of well-being

Front 33

Euthymic Mood

Back 33

"Normal mood"

Front 34

Expansive Mood

Back 34

Lack of restraint in expressing one's feelings

Front 35

Irritable Mood

Back 35

State where one is easily annoyed and provoked to anger

Front 36

Circumstantiality

Back 36

Disturbanc in thought/speech where patient DIGRESSES into unnecessary details before ultimately communication the central idea

Front 37

Derailment

Back 37

Randomly switching topics during speech

Front 38

Flight of Ideas

Back 38

Continuous flow of fast speech with abrupt changes from topic to topic (but with logical instigations, i.e. play on words)

Front 39

Incoherence

Back 39

Linguistic disorganization. In essence, an incomprehensible "word salad"

Front 40

Neologism

Back 40

New word/phrase whose derivation cannot be understood (Bush, anyone?)

Front 41

Perseveration

Back 41

Persistant repetition of specific words/concepts

Front 42

Tangentiality

Back 42

In response to question, FAILs to communicate central idea (vs. circumstantiality where you ultimate get it)

Front 43

Thought Blocking

Back 43

Uncontrolled cessation of thought/speech due to emotional factors

Front 44

Delusion

Back 44

Fixed, false belief

Front 45

Bizarre Delusion

Back 45

A person's culture would view this as totally implausible

Front 46

Jealou Delusion

Back 46

Partner is cheating on them

Front 47

Erotomanic Delusion

Back 47

Belief that a superior is in love with them

Front 48

Grandiose Delusion

Back 48

Inflated worth, power, knowledge

Front 49

Delusion of Reference

Back 49

Delusion that events, objects, or others have a particular and unusual significance

Front 50

Persecutory Delusion

Back 50

One is being attacked/harassed

Front 51

Somatic Delusion

Back 51

Pertain's to the functioning of one's body

Front 52

Magical Thinking

Back 52

One's thoughts/words/actions will cause/prevent a specific outcome in a way that defies common laws of cause and effect

Front 53

Mood-congruent psychotic features

Back 53

Delusions/hallucinations whose content is CONSISTENT with themes of depressed/manic mood (i.e. nihilism and depression)

Front 54

Mood-incongruent pyschotic features

Back 54

Delusions are NOT CONSISTENT with themes of depressed/manic mood

Front 55

Poverty of content

Back 55

Speech conveys little information

Front 56

Racing thoughts

Back 56

Fast and continuous thought processes. Distracting and impedes concentration.

Front 57

Thought broadcasting

Back 57

Belief that one's thoughts are being projected to the environment

Front 58

Thought insertion

Back 58

Belief that thoughts are being implanted into one's mind (by someone/something)

Front 59

Thought withdrawal

Back 59

Belief that one's thoughts are being removed from one's mind

Front 60

Depersonalization

Back 60

Alteration in perception of self. As if one is an "outside observer"

Front 61

Derealization

Back 61

The external world seems strange/unreal

Front 62

Hallucinations

Back 62

Sensory perception that occurs w/out external stimulation

Front 63

Illusion

Back 63

Misinterpretation of external stimuli (i.e. optical illusion)

Front 64

Macropsia

Back 64

False visual perception that objects are larger than they actually are

Front 65

Micropsia

Back 65

False visual perception that objects are smaller than they actually are (plane in sky?)

Front 66

Synesthesia

Back 66

Stimulating one sensory system produces a different sensory modality (sound = color)

Front 67

Amnesia

Back 67

Loss of memory

Front 68

Anterograde amnesia

Back 68

Loss of memory of following events

Front 69

Retrograde amnesia

Back 69

Loss of memory of previous events

Front 70

Confabulation

Back 70

Filling in blanks in memory w/fictitious events (not intentional)

Front 71

Pseudodementia

Back 71

Exaggerated indifference to surroundings and lack of effort ot remember information or answer questions (commonly seen in the depressed)

Front 72

Attention

Back 72

Focus in a sustained manner on a particular stimulus or activity

Front 73

Distractibility

Back 73

Inability to maintian attention

Front 74

Stupor

Back 74

State of decreased reactivity to stimuli

Front 75

Dyssomnia

Back 75

Generalized sleep disorder

Front 76

Hypersomnia

Back 76

Excessive sleepiness

Front 77

Insomnia

Back 77

Inability to fall/stay asleep or poor sleep quality

Front 78

Initial Insomnia

Back 78

Difficultly falling asleep

Front 79

Middle Insomnia

Back 79

Awakening in the middle of the night w/difficult return to sleep

Front 80

Terminal Insomnia

Back 80

Waking up early and not being able to fall back asleep

Front 81

Parasomnia

Back 81

Abnormal behavior during sleep (i.e. sleepwalking)

Front 82

Gender Identity

Back 82

Culturally determined set of attitudes, behaviors, physical attributes associated with masculinity and femininity

Front 83

Gender Role

Back 83

Public declaration of gender. Image of maleness/femaleness communication to others

Front 84

Sexual identity

Back 84

Biologically determined sexual state

Front 85

Transsexualism

Back 85

Unhappiness w/one's own gender and desire to be the opposite sex

Front 86

Anxiety

Back 86

Apprehensive anticipation of future danger/misfotune accompanied by unpleasurable emotional state and somatic symptoms of tension

Front 87

Panic Attacks

Back 87

Sudden onset of intense apprehension accompanied by physiological effects (i.e. pounding heart, shortness or breath, etc)

Front 88

Phobia

Back 88

Persistent, irrational fear

Front 89

Ambivalance

Back 89

Strong simultaneous CONTRASTING ideas/attitides/feelings about something/someone

Front 90

Defense Mechanism

Back 90

Unconscious, automatic psychological process that protects the individual from anxiety and from awareness of internal/external stressors, conflicts or drives (may be maladaptive or adaptive)

Front 91

Personlity

Back 91

Enduring patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself

Front 92

Prodrome

Back 92

An early sign of a disorder

Front 93

Psychotic

Back 93

A gross impairment in reality testing

Front 94

Residual Phase

Back 94

Phase of illness after remission of the full syndrome

Front 95

Sign

Back 95

Objective manifestation of a pathological condition

Front 96

Stressor, psychological

Back 96

Life event/change that may be associated with the onset/exacerbation of a mental disorder

Front 97

Symptom

Back 97

Subjective manifestation of a pathological condition (reported by the affected individual and NOT the observer)

Front 98

Syndrome

Back 98

A grouping of signs and syndromes that may suggeset a common, underlying pathogenesis, etc