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dysarthria

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the impaired ability to articulate

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dysnomia

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the impaired ability to name objects

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dysgraphia

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the impaired abiliuty to write

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Delirium

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A) Disturbance of consciousness (reduced ability to sustain, focus, or shift attention)
B) a change in cognition (memory, langauge, disoreintation) or developmeent of a perceptual disturbance
C) Disturbance develops over a short period of time (hours to days)

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aphasia

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impairment in the understanding or transmission of ideas by language in any of its forms - reading, writing, or speaking - that is due to unjury or disease of the brain centers involved in language

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apraxia

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impaired ability to carry out motor activities despite intact motor function

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agnosia

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failure to recognize or identify object despite intact sensory function

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agonist medication

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a chemical entity extrinsic to endogenously produced substances that acts on a receptor and is capable of producing the maximal effect that can be produced by stimulating that receptor

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partial agonist

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capable only of producing less than the max effect even when given in a concentration sufficient to bind with all available receptors

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alogia

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impoverishment in thinking that is inferred from observing speech and lanague behavior. Poverty of speech, overconcrete, overabstract, repetitive, or sterotyped

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poverty of speech

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restriction in the amount of spontaneous speech

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anterograde amnesia

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loss of memory of events that occur after the onset of the etiological condition or agent

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retrograde amnesia

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loss of memory of events that occurred before the onset of the etological condition or agent

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ataxia

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partial or complete loss of coordination of voluntary muscular movement

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aphonia

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an inability to produce speech sounds that require the use of the larynx that is not due to a lesion in the CNS

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avolition

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an inability to initiate and persist in goal-directed activities.

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catelepsy

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waxy flexibility - rigid maintenance of a body position over an extended period of time

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cataplexy

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episodes of sudden bilateral loss of muscle tone resulting in the individual collapsing, often in association with intense emotions such as laughter, anger, fear, or surprise

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bizarre delusion

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a delusion that involves a phenomenon that the person's culture would regard as totally implausible

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delusional jealousy

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delusion that one's sexual partner is unfaithful

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erotomanic

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a delusion that another person, usually of higher status, is in love with the individual

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grandiose

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a delusion of inlated worth, pwer, knowledge, identity, or speical relationship to a deity or famous person

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delusion of reference

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a delusion whose theme is that events, objects, or other persons in one's immediate enviornment have a particular and unusual significance

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persecutory delusion

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a delusion in which the central theme is that one (or someone to whom one is close) is being attacked, harassed, cheated, persecuted, or consipired against

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somatic

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a delusion whose main content pertains to the appearance or functioning of one's body

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disorientation

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confusion about the time of day, date, or season (time), where one is (place), or who one is (person).

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dysarthria

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imperfect articulation of speech due to distuances of muscular control

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dyskinesia

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distortion of voluntary movements with involuntary muscular activity

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dyssomnia

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primary disorder of sleep or wakevulness characterized by insomnia or hypersomnia - disorders of amount, quality or timing of sleep

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dystonia

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disordered tonicity of muscles

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echolalia

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the pathological, parrotlike, and apparently senseless repetition (echoing) of a word or phrase just spoken by another person

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echopraxia

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repetition by imitation of the movements of another. The action is not a willed or voluntary one and ahs a semiautomatic and uncontrollable quality.

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hyperacusis

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painful sensitivity to sounds

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macropsia

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the visual perception that objects are larger than they actually are

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micropsia

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the visual perception that objects are smaller than they actually are

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dysphoric mood

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unpleasant mood such as sadness, anxiety or irritability

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elevated mood

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an exaggerated feeling of well-being, or euphoria or elation. May describe feeling "high," "ecstatic," "up in the coulds," "on top of the world."

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nystagmus

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involuntary rhythmic movements of the eyes that consist of small amplitude rapid tremors in one direction and a larger, slower, recurrent sweep in the opposite direction. Nystagmus may be horizontal, vertical, or rotary

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overvalued idea

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an unreasonable and sustained belief that is mantained with less than delusional intensity (i.e. the person is able to acknowledge the possibility that the belief may not be true). The belief is not ordinarily accepted by one's culture or subculture

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parasomnia

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abnormal behavior or physiological events occurring during sleep or sleep-wake transitions

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prodrome

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an early or premonitory sign or symptom of a disorder