Psych Vocab

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INABILITY to Stand or Walk in a normal manner

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Astasia- Abasia

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LACK of Physical Movement

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Akinesia

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Automatic performance of an act or acts generally representing unconscious symbolic activity

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Automatism

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General term for an immobile position that is constantly maintained

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Catalepsy

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Temporary loss of muscle tone and weakness precipitated by a variety of emotional states

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Cataplexy

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Subjective feeling of muscular tension SECONDARY to antipsychotic or other medications

Pacing, Skin is "Crawling

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Akathisia

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Seen in Catatonic Schizophrenia and some patients with Brain Diseases

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Catatonia

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Agitated, purposeless motor activity, uninfluenced by external stimuli

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Catatonic Excitement

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Voluntary assumption of an inappropriate or bizarre posture

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Catatonic Posturing

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Voluntary assumption of a rigid posture

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Catatonic Rigidity

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Markedly slowed motor activity

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Catatonic Stupor

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Condition in which a person can be molded into a position that is then maintained

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Cerea flexibilitas (waxy flexibility)

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Pathological need to act on an impulse that, if resisted, produces anxiety

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Compulsion

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Eating of filth or feces

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Coprophagia

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Restless, aggressive, destructive activity

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Hyperactivity or Hyperkinesis

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Decreased motor and cognitive activity

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Hypoactivity or Hypokinesia

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Ingrained, habitual involuntary movements

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Mannerism

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Voicelessness without structural abnormalities

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Mutism

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Motiveless resistance to all attempts to be moved or to all instructions

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Negativism

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Pathological overeating

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Polyphagia

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Excessive motor and cognitive activity

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Psychomotor Agitation

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Motor activity during sleep

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Sleepwalking

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Repetitive fixed pattern of physical action or speech

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Stereotypy

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Condition in which the emotional tone is in harmony with the accompanying idea, thought, or speech

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Appropriate Affect

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Disturbance in affect manifested by severe reduction in the intensity of externalized feeling tone

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Blunted Affect

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Reduction in intensity of feeling tone, less severe than blunted affect but clearly reduced

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Constricted or Restricted Affect

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Absence or near absence of any signs of affective expression; voice monotonous, face immobile

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Flat Affect

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Disharmony between the emotional feeling tone and the idea, thought or speech accompanying it

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Inappropriate Affect

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Rapid and abrupt changed in emotional feeling tone, unrelated to external stimuli

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Labile Affect

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Loss of interest in, and withdrawal from, all regular and pleasurable activities

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Anhedonia

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A person's inability to, or difficulty in, describing or being aware of emotions or mood

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Alexithymia

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Psychopathological feelings of sadness

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Depression

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An unpleasant mood

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Dysphoric Mood

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Feeling of intense rapture

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Ecstasy

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Feelings of joy, euphoria, triumph, intense self-satisfaction or optimism, and exaggerated motor activity

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Elation

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Air of confidence and enjoyment

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Elevated mood

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Intense elation with feelings of grandeur

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Euphoria

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Normal range of mood

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Euthymic Mood

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A person's expression of feelings without restraint, frequently with overestimation of their significance or importance

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Expansive Mood

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Combination of euphoria, elation and an attitude of grandeur

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Exultation

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Sadness appropriate to real loss

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Grief or Mourning

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Oscillations between euphoria and depression or anxiety

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Mood Swings

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Severe anxiety associated with motor restlessness

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Agitation

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Coexistence of two opposing impulses toward the same thing in the same person at the same time

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Ambivalence

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Feeling of apprehension caused by anticipation of danger, which may be internal or external

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Anxiety

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Anxiety caused by consciously recognized and realistic danger

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Fear

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Acute, episodic intense attack of anxiety associated with overwhelming feelings of dread and autonomic discharge

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Panic

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Lack of or diminished ability to sleep

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Insomnia

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Excessive Sleeping

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Hypersomnia

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Disruptive sleep-related disorders that can occur during arousals from REM Sleep or Partial Arousals from Non-REM Sleep

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Parasomnia

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Loss or Decrease in Appetite

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Anorexia

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Increase in Food Intake

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Hyperphagia

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Preoccupation with Inner, Private World.Term used somewhat synonymously with Dereism (one of the 4 A's of Schizophrenias)

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Autistic Thinking

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Thinking characterized by loosened associations, neologisms, and illogical constructs; Thought Process is disordered and the person is define as Psychotic!

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Formal Thought Disorder

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A form of Dereistic thought in which thoughts, words or actions assume power (for example, they can cause or prevent events)

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Magical Thinking

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Thinking refers to the ideational components of mental activity, processes used to imagine, appraise, evaluate, forecast, plan, create and will.

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Normal Thinking

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Inability to distinguish reality from fantasy; Impaired reality testing with the creation of a new reality

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Psychosis

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Abrupt interruption in train of thought before a thought or idea is finished

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Blocking

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Indirect speech that is delayed in reaching the point but eventually gets from original point to desired goal. Unnecessary detailed path in answering questions.

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Circumstantiality

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Association of words similar in sound but not in meaning; words have no logical connection; may include rhyming and punning

"How high am I, I fly, look, look at the sky"

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Clang Associations

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Psychopathological Repeating of Words or Phrases of One Person by Another

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Echolalia

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Rapid, continuous verbalization or plays on words produce constant shifting from one idea to another

"My boss fired me. I hear voices coming from the radiators. I think I am the cause of all this trouble in the U.S. It's my mother's fault. "

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Flight of Ideas

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Neologisms that simulate coherent speech; the expression of a revelatory message through Unintelligible words (Also known as Speaking in Tongues); Not considered a disturbance of thought if associated with practices or specific religions.

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Glossolalia

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Thought that is generally NOT understandable; running together of thoughts or words with no logical or grammatical connection, resulting in disorganization

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Incoherence

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Answer that is not in harmony with questions asked (patient appears to ignore or not attend to question)

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Irrelevant Answer

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Loss of Connections. Form of thought in which ideas shift from one subject to another in a completely unrelated way; when severe, speech may be incoherent.

"Then going over the world...then coming down...I'm going to meet....Riding and riding down....How's it coming Johnny?.....Now. Now, going home"

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Loosening of Association

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Persisting Response to a previous stimulus after a new stimulus has been presented

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Perseveration

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Rapid speech that is increased in amount and difficult to interrupt

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Pressure of Speech

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Verbal expressions, which are vague, rambling and somewhat disconnected.

"My brother works in a paper factory, he is a puncher....the problem in the town is what most people work at the factory and will all the layoffs...."

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Derailment

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Inability to have goal-directed associations of thought; speaker never gets from point to desired goal. Does NOT reach goal.

"What type of work do you do?"
"Yes...yes. Can you imagine out of work? I watch the news and a lot of people are out of work" (same content, still no answer).

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Tangentiality

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Meaningless repetition of specific words or phrases

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Verbigeration

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Copious, coherent, logical speech

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Volubility (Logorrhea)

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Incoherent mixture of words or phrases

"I, or what, what, the shy, he, me she, she she, she, cold, it."

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Word Salad

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Compulsive utterances of obscene words

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Coprolalia

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Difficulty in articulation, NOT in word finding or in grammar

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Dysarthria

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Loss of normal speech melody (called prosody) should be called APROSODY

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Dysprosody

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New word created by a patient, often by combining syllables of other words, for idiosyncratic psychological reasons (used as if they had a specific and consciously validated meaning)

"I cannot button this shirt. The orroble hit him."

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Neologism

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An absurd, totally implausible, strange false belief

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Bizarre Delusion

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False Belief, based in incorrect interference about external reality, not consistent with patient's intelligence and cultural background; cannot be corrected by reasoning

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Delusion

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False feeling that a person's will, thoughts or feelings are being controlled by External Forces

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Delusion of Control

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Delusion that a Parent, Spouse, Friend, or other close family member has been REPLACED by an Identical-Looking Imposter

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Delusion of Doubles aka Delusions of Misidentification - Capgras Syndrome

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False belief that a Complete Stranger is actually a Familiar Person already known to one

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Delusion of Misidentification - Fregoli Syndrome

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A false belief that one is Infested with Small but Visible Organisms

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Delusions of Infestation - Ekbom's Syndrome

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False belief derived from pathological jealousy about a person's lover being unfaithful

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Delusion of Infidelity or Delusion of Jealousy - Othello Syndrome

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A person's false belief that the behavior of others refers to himself or herself

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Delusion of Perception or Delusion of Reference

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A person's false belief that he or she is bereft or will be deprived of all material possessions

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Delusion of Poverty

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False feeling of Remorse or Guilt

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Delusion of Self-Accusation

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Delusion that a person's thoughts can be heard by others, as though being broadcast over the air

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Delusion of Thought Broadcasting

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Delusion that a person's thoughts are being controlled by other persons or forces

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Delusion of Thought Control

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Delusion that thoughts are being implanted in a person's mind by other persons or forces

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Delusion of Thought Insertion

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Delusional belief, more common in WOMEN, that someone is deeply in love with them

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Erotomania - de Cl' ERambault Syndrome

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False sensory perception NOT associated with real external stimuli

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Hallucination

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Exaggerated concern about health that is based not on real organic pathology, but rather on unrealistic interpretations of physical signs or sensations as abnormal

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Hypochondria

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False sensory perception occurring while FALLING ASLEEP

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Hypnagogic Hallucination

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False perception occurring while AWAKENING FROM SLEEP

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Hypnopompic Hallucination

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Delusion with mood-appropriate content

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Mood Congruent Delusion

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Delusion with content that has NO association to mood or is mood neutral

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Mood Incongruent Delusion

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False feeling that self, others, or the world is Nonexistent or Coming to an End

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Nihilistic Delusion aka Somatic Delusions - Cotard's Syndrome

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Pathological persistence of an irresistible thought or feeling that CANNOT be eliminated from consciousness by logical effort

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Obsession

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Unreasonable, sustained false belief maintained LESS FIRMLY than a Delusion

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Overvalued Idea

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Delusions of Persecution (false belief that one is being harmed, threatened, cheated, harassed or is a victim of a conspiracy)
Delusions of Grandeur (false belief that one is exceptionally powerful, talented or important)
Delusions of Reference (false belief that certain objects, people or events have intense personal significance and refer specifically to oneself)

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Paranoid Delusion

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Persistent, irrational, exaggerated and invariably pathological dread of a Specific Stimulus or Situation

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Phobia

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A type of living in which a person appears to believe in the reality of his or her fantasies and acts on them

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Pseudologia phantastica

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False belief involving functioning of the body

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Somatic Delusion

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False belief or beliefs united by a single event or theme

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Systematized Delusion

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False Perception of SOUND, usually Voices but also other noises, such as music; MOST COMMON HALLUCINATION in Psychiatric Disorders

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Auditory Hallucination

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False Perception of TASTE

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Gustatory Hallucination

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False Perception in which Objects are seen as REDUCED IN SIZE

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Lilliputian Hallucination

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False Perception of SMELL

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Olfactory Hallucination

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False Sensation of things occurring IN or TO the BODY

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Somatic Hallucination

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Sensation or Hallucination caused by ANOTHER SENSATION (e.g., an auditory sensation accompanied by or triggering a visual sensation)

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Synesthesia

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False Perception of TOUCH or SURFACE SENSATION, as from an Amputated Limb

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Tactile (Haptic) Hallucination

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Perceptual Abnormality associated with Hallucinogenic Drugs in which Moving Objects are seen as a Series of Discrete and Discontinuous Images

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Trailing Phenomenon

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False Perception involving SIGHT and consisting of BOTH 1) FORMED Images and 2) UNFORMED Images

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Visual Hallucination

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Misinterpretation of REAL External Sensory Stimuli

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Illusion

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A Person's Subjective sense of being Unreal, Strange or Unfamiliar

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Depersonalization

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A subjective sense that the Environment is Strange or Unreal

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Derealization

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State in which Objects seem LARGER than they are

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Macropsia

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State in which Objects seem SMALLER than they are

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Micropsia

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Incomplete Clear-Mindesness with Disturbances in Perception and Attitudes

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Clouding of Consciousness

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Profound Unconsciousness

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Coma

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Coma in which a patient Appears to be Awake with EYES OPEN but CANNOT be Aroused

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Coma Vigil

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Bewildered, Restless, Confused, Disoriented Reaction associated with Fear and Hallucinations

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Delirium

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Disturbances of Orientation in PERSON, PLACE, TIME

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Disorientation

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Often used as a synonym for 1) Complex Partial Seizure or 2) Psychomotor Epilepsy

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Dream State

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A state of Impaired Awareness associated with a Desire or Inclination to SLEEP

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Drowsiness

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Lack of Reaction To, and Unawareness of, Surroundings

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Stupor

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Syndrome in OLDER Persons that usually occurs at NIGHT and is characterized by Drowsiness, Confusion, Ataxia and Falling as a result of being OVERLY SEDATED with Medication

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Sundowning

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Disturbed Consciousness with Hallucinations

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Twilight State

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Partial or Total Inability to recall PAST Experiences

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Amnesia

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Amnesia for events occurring AFTER a point in time

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Anterograde Amnesia

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Amnesia experienced by ALCOHOLICS about behavior DURING Drinking

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Blackout

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Amnesia for events occurring in a certain PERIOD OF TIME

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Circumscribe Amnesia

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Unconscious Filling of Gaps in Memory by Imagined or Untrue experiences that a person believes but that have NO basis in fact.

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Confabulation

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Illusion of visual recognition in which a NEW situation is Incorrectly regarded as a repetition of a previous memory

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Deja vu

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Visual Memory of almost Hallucinatory Vividness

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Eidetic Image

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False Recognition

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Fausse Reconnaissance

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Temporary Inability to remember a Name or Proper Noun

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Lethologica

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Exaggerated degree of Retention and Recall

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Hypermnesia

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False feelings of Unfamiliarity with a Real Situation that a person HAS Experienced

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Jamais vu

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Falsification of Memory by Distortion of Recall

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Paramnesia

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Amnesia for Events occurring BEFORE a Point in Time

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Retrograde Amnesia

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Memory becomes Unintentionally (Unconsciously) Distorted by being Filtered through a Person's Present 1) Emotional, 2) Cognitive, and 3) Experiential State

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Retrospective Falsification

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Amnesia for Certain Details of an Event

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Selective Amnesia

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Generalized Amnesia

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Total Amnesia