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Reality testing

Automatic and unconscious process by which we sort out what is real and not real

Positive symptoms

The presence of symptoms not normally there

Ideas of reference

False impression that outside events that have special meaning for ones self.

Pseudoparkinsonism

Med induced Parkinson like symptoms tremors, reduced accessory movement impaired gait muscle stiffness

Clang association

Choosing words based on their sound rather than meaning... rhyme or simular beginning sound.

Neuroleptic malignant syndrome

Life threatening


Medical emergency, reduced consciousness , increased muscle tone, autonomic dysfunction.

Acute dystonia

Contraction of muscles in head and neck

Akathisia

Restlessness evident as pacing, figiting sometimes distressing to patient.

Echopraxia

Mimicking movements of another. Seen in catatonia

1st Gen antipsychotics

D2 receptor antagonist


Dopamine

Command hallucinations

Direct the person to take action

Hallucination

Perceiving a sensory experience for which no external stimulus exsists.

Extrapyramidal side effects

Variety of signs and symptoms that are often side effects of the use of certain psychotropic drugs particularly phenothiazines

Affect

Outward expression of a person's internal emotional state

Delusions

False fixed beliefs that cannot be corrected by reasoning

3rd Gen antipsychotic

Dopamine system stabilizers

Derealization

False perception that environment has changed.

Cognative systems

Subtle changes in memory, attention, or thinking

Negative symptoms

The absence of something that should be there

Executive function

Ability to set priorities or make decisions

Associative looseness

Thinking becomes haphazzard.


Illogical


Difficult to follow

Anosognosia

Patients inability to realize that he or she is ill, which is caused by the illness itself

Ambivalence

Holding At the same time of 2 opposing emotions attitudes ideas or wishes toward the same person situation or object

Neologisms

Made up words that have no meaning for the patient but a different or nonexistent meaning to others.

Paranoia

Irrational feat of others ranging from mild to profound.

Word salad

Jumble of words that is meaningless to the listener and possibly the speaker because of extreme level od disorganization

Concrete thinking

Impaired ability to to think abstractly

Depersonalization

Feeling that one is somehow different or unreal or has lost identity

Stereotyped behaviors

Repeated motor behaviors that do not serve a logical purpose.