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22 Cards in this Set
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Affect
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The external manifestations of feeling or emotion which is manifested in faacial expression, tone of voice, and body language. For example, a patient may be said to have a flat affect, meaning that there is an absence or a near absence of facial expression. The term may be used loosely to describe a feeling, emotion, or mood.
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Akathisia
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Regular rhythmic movements, usually of the lowe limbs; constant pacing may be seen; often noticed in people taking antipsychotic medications.
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Alexithymia
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A state of deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing emotions. "Without words for emotions."
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Anhedonia
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The inability to experience pleasure
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Associative looseness
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A disturbance of thinking in which ideas shift from one subject to another in an oblique or unrelated manner.
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Circumstantial thinking
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A persistent underlying disturbance to conscious thought, classified largely by its effects on speech and writing. The pattern of speech characterized by indirectness and delay before the person gets to the point or answers a question; the person gets caught up in countless details and explanations.
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Clang associations
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The meaningless rhyming of words, often in a forceful manner.
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Delusions
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A false belief held to be true even with evidence to the contrary (eg. the false belief that one is being singled out for harm by others).
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Echolalia
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Repeating of the last words spoken by another; mimicry or imitation of the speech of another person.
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Echopraxia
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Mimicry or imitation of the movements of another person.
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Flight of ideas
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A continuous flow of speech in which the person jumps reapidly from one topic to another. Sometimes the listener can keep up with the changes; at other times, it is necessary to listen for themes in the incessant talking. Themes often include grandiose and fantasized evaluation of personal sexual prowess, business ability, artistic talents, and so forth.
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Hallucinations
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A sense perception (seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, or touching) for which no external stimulus exists (eg. hearing voices when none are present).
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Ideas of reference
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The false impression that outside events have special meaning for oneself.
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Illusions
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Errors in the perception of a sensory stimulus. For eg, a person may mistake polka dots on a pillow for hairy spiders.
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Magical thinking
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The belief that simply thinking simething can make it happen; it is seen in children and psychotic patients.
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Neoligism
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A word a person makes up that has meaning only to that person; often part of a delusional system.
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Paranoia
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A state characterized by the presence of intense and strongly defended irrational suspicions. These ideas cannot be corrected by experience and cannot be modified by facts or reality.
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Prodromal
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In medicine, a prodrome is an early symptom (or set of symptoms) that might indicate the start of a disease before specific symptoms occur. Prodromes may be non-specific symptoms or, in a few instances, may clearly indicate a a particular disease, such as the prodromal migraine aura.
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Tangential thinking
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Disturbance in associative thinking in which the speaker goes off topic. When it happens frequently and the speaker does not return to the topic, interpersonal communication is destroyed.
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Thought insertion
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The delusion that thoughts are being inserted into one's mind by someone else. It is a symptom of psychosis which occur in many mental disorders and other conditions.
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Waxy flexibility
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Excessive maintenance of posture; for example, after the arms or legs are placed in a certain position, the individual holds that same position for hours.
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Word salad
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A mixture of words meaningless to the listener and to the speaker as well.
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