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29 Cards in this Set
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Reality testing |
Automatic and unconscious process by which we sort out what is real and not real |
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Positive symptoms |
The presence of symptoms not normally there |
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Ideas of reference |
False impression that outside events that have special meaning for ones self. |
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Pseudoparkinsonism |
Med induced Parkinson like symptoms tremors, reduced accessory movement impaired gait muscle stiffness |
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Clang association |
Choosing words based on their sound rather than meaning... rhyme or simular beginning sound. |
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Neuroleptic malignant syndrome |
Life threatening Medical emergency, reduced consciousness , increased muscle tone, autonomic dysfunction. |
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Acute dystonia |
Contraction of muscles in head and neck |
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Akathisia |
Restlessness evident as pacing, figiting sometimes distressing to patient. |
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Echopraxia |
Mimicking movements of another. Seen in catatonia |
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1st Gen antipsychotics |
D2 receptor antagonist Dopamine |
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Command hallucinations |
Direct the person to take action |
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Hallucination |
Perceiving a sensory experience for which no external stimulus exsists. |
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Extrapyramidal side effects |
Variety of signs and symptoms that are often side effects of the use of certain psychotropic drugs particularly phenothiazines |
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Affect |
Outward expression of a person's internal emotional state |
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Delusions |
False fixed beliefs that cannot be corrected by reasoning |
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3rd Gen antipsychotic |
Dopamine system stabilizers |
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Derealization |
False perception that environment has changed. |
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Cognative systems |
Subtle changes in memory, attention, or thinking |
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Negative symptoms |
The absence of something that should be there |
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Executive function |
Ability to set priorities or make decisions |
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Associative looseness |
Thinking becomes haphazzard. Illogical Difficult to follow |
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Anosognosia |
Patients inability to realize that he or she is ill, which is caused by the illness itself |
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Ambivalence |
Holding At the same time of 2 opposing emotions attitudes ideas or wishes toward the same person situation or object |
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Neologisms |
Made up words that have no meaning for the patient but a different or nonexistent meaning to others. |
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Paranoia |
Irrational feat of others ranging from mild to profound. |
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Word salad |
Jumble of words that is meaningless to the listener and possibly the speaker because of extreme level od disorganization |
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Concrete thinking |
Impaired ability to to think abstractly |
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Depersonalization |
Feeling that one is somehow different or unreal or has lost identity |
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Stereotyped behaviors |
Repeated motor behaviors that do not serve a logical purpose. |