Dsm Technical Terms First Half

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Affect

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Pattern of observable behavior that is the expression of a emotion. ex.- sadness, elation,ager. What the person looks like usually when they are engaged in something.

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Blunted Affect

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Significant reduction in the intensity of emotional expresstion. Very slight, just above flat.

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Flat Affect

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Absence or near absence of any signs of affective expression. No body language or influx/emphasis in speech.

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Inappropriate Affect

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Discordance b/t affective expression and the content of speech or ideation. Expression does not match the words they are saying. ex- saying "I'm happy" but sounding or looking it.

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Labile Affect

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Abnormal variability in affect with repeated, rapid and abrupt shifts in affective expression.

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Restricted or Constricted Affect

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Mild reduction in the range and intensity of emotional expression.

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Agitation (Psychomotor Agitation)

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Excessive motor activity associated with a feeling of inner tension. Usually nonproductive and repetitious. ex- pacing, fidgeting, wrining of the hands, pulling of clothes, or inability to sit still.

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Agonist Medication

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Produces a reaction or effect on the central nervous system. All of the substances of abuse are agonsits.

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Antagonsit Medication

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Produces no effect on the central nervous system, and prevents some other substance from producing an effect. You don't get high of these drugs.

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Agonsit/antagosist Medication

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Has an effect on the CNS and blocks the effects of another substance. ex- Methodone creates a high but itblocks the effect of heroin.

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Alogia

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Impoverished thinking which can be manifested through poverty of speech(talk littl or none and say little or nothing) or Poverty of Content(talk a lot but say little or nothing).

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Anterograde Amnesia

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Loss of memory of the things that happened after the incident.

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Retrograde Amnesia

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Loss of memory of the things that happened before the incident.

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Anxiety

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Apprehensive anticipation of future danger or misfortune accompanied by a feeling of dysphoria or somatic symtoms of tension. Can be a focused phobia or general.

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Aphasia

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An impairment in the understanding or transmission of ideas by language in any of its forms--reading, writing, or speaking--that is due to injury or disease of the brain centers involving language.
They can tell you what it is for, how you use it, but they can't find the word. ex-keys.

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Aphonia

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Loss of voice resulting from disease or injury to the larynex. Not brain related.

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Ataxia

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Partial or complete loss of coordination of voluntary muscular movement.

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Attention

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Ability to fcus on a particular stimulus or activity. Disturbance may be manifested by easy distractibility or difficulty finishing tasks.

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Avolition

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An inability to initiate and persist in goal-directed activites.

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Catalepsy

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Waxy flexibility- rigid maintenance of a body position over an extended period of time.

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Cataplexy

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Episodes of sudden bilateral loss of muscle tone resulting in the individual collapsing, often association with intense emotions such as laughter, anger, fear, or surprise.

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Catatonic Behavior

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Marked motor abnormalities including motoric immobility (i.e., catalepsy or stupor), certain types of excessive motor activity (apparently purposeless agitation not influenced by the external stimuli), extreme negativism (apparent motiveless resistance to instructions or attempts to be moved) or mutism, posturing or stereotyped movements, echolalia or echopraxia.

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Conversion Symptom

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A loss of, or alteration in voluntary motor or sensory functioning suggesting a neurological or general medical condition. Psychological factors are judged to be associated with the development of the symptom and the symptom is not fully explained by a neurological or general medical condition or substance.The symptom is not intentionally produced or culturally sanctioned.

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Defense Mechanism

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Automatic psychological process that protects the individual against anxiety and from awareness of internal or external stressors or dangers. Some are maladaptive and others can be either or depending on the situation.

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Delusion

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A false belief based on incorrect inference about external reality that is firmly sustained despite what almost everyone else believes and despite proof of the contrary.

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Bizarre Delusion

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Involves a phenomenon that the person's culture would regard totally implausible.

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Delusional Jealousy

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The delusion that one's sexual partner is unfaithful.

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Erotomanic Delusion

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Another person, usually of higher status is in love with the individual.

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Grandiose Delusion

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Inflated worth, power,knowledge, identity, or special relationship to a deity or famous person.

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Delusion of being controlled

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feelings, impulses, thoughts, actions are under the control of some external force.

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Delusion of reference

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Events, objects, or other persons in one's immediate environment have a particular and unusual significance.

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Persecutory Delusion

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Person or someone they are close to is being attacked, harassed, cheated, persecuted, or conspired against.

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Somatic Delusion

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Content pertains to the appearance or function on one's body.

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Thought Broadcasting Delusion

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Delusion that one's thoughts are being broadcast out loud so that they can be perceived by others.

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Thought Insertion Delusion

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One's thoughts are not one's own, but rather inserted into their mind.

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Depersonalization

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An alteration in the perception or experience of self so that one feels detached from their self. Feel like an outside observer.

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Derailment

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Pattern of speech in which a person's ideas slip off one track onto another that is not at all or only slightly related. Occurs between clauses.

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Derealization

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An alteration in perception or experience of the external world so that it seems strange or unreal.

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Disorientation

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Confusion about the time of day, date, or season, where one is, or who one is.

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Dissociation

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A disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception of the environment. Disturbance may be sudden or gradual, transient or chronic.

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Distractibility

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Inability to maintain attention. Shifting from one area or topic to another w/minimal provocation. Or attention being too frequently drawn to unimportant things.

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Dysarthria

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Imperfect articulation of speech due to disturbances of muscular control.

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Dyskinesia

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Distortion of voluntary movements with involuntary muscular activity.

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Dyssominia

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Disorders of the amount, quality, or timing of sleep. Insomnia and Hypersomnia

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Dystonia

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Disordered tonicity of muscles.

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Echolalia

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Pathological, parrotlike, and senseless repetition of a word or phrase just spoken by another person.

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Echopraxia

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Uncontrolled repetition of the movements of others.

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Flashback

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Recurrence of a memory, feeling, or perceptual experience from the past.

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Flight of Ideas

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Nearly continuous flow of accelerated speech with abrupt changes in topic that are usually understandably associated, distracting stimuli, or plays on words. When severe speech can be disorganized and incoherent.

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Gender Dysphoria

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Persistent Aversion toward some or all of those physical characteristics or social roles of one's own sex.

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Gender Identity

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A person's inner conviction of being male or female.

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Gender Role

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Attitudes, patterns of behavior, and personality attributes defined by the culture in which a person lives as stereotypically "masculine" or "feminine".

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Grandiosity

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And inflated appraisal of one's worth, power, knowledge, importance, or identity. When extreme, grandiosity may be of delusional proportions.

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Hallucination

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Sensory perception that has the compelling sense of reality of a true perception but that occurs without external stimulation of the relevant sensory organ. Some people are aware that the hallucination is just that and others are convinced it is real.

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Auditory Hallucination

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Involves the perception of sound, most commonly with voices. In the DSM they consider both voices coming from outside the head and inside the head to be auditory hallucination.

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Gustatory Hallucination

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Involving the perception of taste which is usually unpleasant.

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Olfactory Hallucination

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Involving the perception of odor, such as burning rubber or decaying fish.

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Somatic Hallucination

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Involving the perception of a physical experience localized within the body(feeling of electricity),

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Tactile Hallucination

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Involving the perception of being touched or of something being under one's skin. Most common is the sensation of electric shocks.

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Visual Hallucination

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Involves sight, which may consist of formed images, such as of people, or unformed images such as flashes of light.