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13 Cards in this Set
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Confabulation
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fabrication of facts or events in response to questions about situations or events that are not recalled because of memory impairment.
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pseudodementia
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clinical features resembling dementia that are not due to organic brain dysfunction or disease.
- can get cognitive abilities back unlike dementia |
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dementia
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a chronic, typically irreversible, loss of intellectual functioning in consequence of brain pathology.
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deja vu
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perceiving something that one ha never seen before, but has a distinct feeling that they had experience some time in the past.
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jamais vu
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a person in a familiar situation has the feeling that he has never experienced or seen anything like it before.
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fugue
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condition in which the person suddenly leaves his previous activity and begins to wander of goes on a journey
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deersonalization
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an alteration in the perception of experience of the self so that the feeling of one's own reality is temporarily lost
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insomnia
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difficulty falling or staying asleep.
- initial: difficulty falling asleep - middle: awakening and trouble returning to sleep - terminal: awakening at least 2 hours before usual time |
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conversion symptom
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a loss or alteration of physical functioning that suggest a physical disorder
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neurotic/neuroses
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experience of non-psychotic symptoms
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psychotic/psychoses
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gross impairment in reality testing and the creation of a new reality
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ego-syntonic
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symptoms that are congruent with the person's wishes that there is no desire to change. MATCHES
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ego-dystonic
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symptoms that are incongruent with ther person's wishes such that there is a desire to change.
- feelings that it doesn't match feelings and actions |