Psychopathology 1 - Argosy Sfba

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AKATHISIA

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Subjective feeling of muscular tension secondary to antipsychotic or other medication which can cause restlessness, pacing, and repeated sitting and standing; can be mistaken for psychotic agitation.

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ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA

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amnesia for events occurring after a point in time.

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APHASIC DISTURBANCES

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disturbances in language output [and reception].

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BRADYKINESIA

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Slowness of motor activity with a decrease in normal spontaneous movement.

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Brady = slow.

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CHOREA

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Random and involuntary quick, jerky, purposeless movements.

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Chorea means belt in Spanish.

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CLANG ASSOCIATION

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

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CONCRETE THINKING

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Literal thinking; limited use of metaphor without understanding nuances of meaning; one-dimensional thought.

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CONFABULATION

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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; most often associated with organic pathology.

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CORPROPHRASIA

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Invountary use of vulgar or obscene language; seen in Tourette's disorder and some patients with schizophrenia.

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corpro is similar to body in Spanish.

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DELUSION OF SELF-ACCUSATION

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False feeling of remorse and guilt.

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DYSARTHRIA

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Difficulty in articulation, not in word finding or grammar.

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ECHOPRAXIA

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Pathological imitation of movements of one person by another.

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echo = imitation
praxia = movement

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MOOD CONGRUENT DELUSION

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Delusion with mood-appropriate content.

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MUTISM

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Voicelessness without structural abnormalities.

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NEOLOGISM

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New word created by patient, often by combining syllables of other words, for idiosyncratic psychological reasons.

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PERSEVERATION

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Persisting response to a previous stimulus after a new stimulus has been presented; often associated with cognitive disorders.

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POVERTY OF CONTENT OF SPEECH

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Speech that is adequate in amount but conveys little information because of vagueness, emptiness, or stereotyped phrases.

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POVERTY OF SPEECH

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Restriction in the amount of speech used; replies may be monosyllabic.

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PRESSURE OF SPEECH

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Rapid speech that is increased in amount and difficult to interpret.

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PSEUDODEMENTIA

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Clinical features resembling a dementia not caused by an organic condition; most often caused by depression.

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RETROGRADE AMNESIA

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Amnesia for events occurring before a point in time.

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WAXY FLEXIBILITY

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Condition of a person who can by molded into a position that is then maintained; when an examiner moves the person's limb, the limb feels as if it were made of wax.

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ABREACTION

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emotional release or discharge after recalling a painful experience.

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AGITATION

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sever anxiety associated with motor restlessness; similar to irritability characterized by excessive excitabilty with easily triggered anger or annoyance.

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ALEXITHYMIA

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a person's inability to, or difficutly in describing or being aware of emotions or mood.

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ANHEDONIA

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loss of interest in, and withdrawal from, all regualr and pleasurable activities, often associated with depression.

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BLUNTED AFFECT

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

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DELIRIUM

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bewildered, restless, confused, disoriented reaction associated with fear and hallucinations.

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DISORIENTATION

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disturbance in orientation in time, place, or person.

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DIURNAL VARIATION

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mood is regularly worse in the morning, immediately after awakening, and improves as the day progresses.

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EUTHYMIC MOOD

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normal range of mood, implying absence of depressed or elevated mood.

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HYPERVIGILANCE

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excessive attention and focus on all internal and external stimuli, usually secondary to delusional or paranoid states.

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HYPOMANIA

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mood abnormality with the qualitative characteristics of mania but somewhat less in intensity.

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INAPPROPRIATE AFFECT

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disharmond between the emotional feeling tone and the idea, thought, or speech accompnying it.

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LABILE AFFECT

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rapid and abrupt changes in emotional feeling tone, unrelated to external stimuli.

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PICA

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craving and eating nonfood substances, such as paint and clay.

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SUNDOWNING

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Syndrome in older persons that usually occurs at night and is characterized by drowsiness, confusion, ataxia, and falling as the result of being overly sedated with medications.

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ADIADOCHOKINESIA

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inability to perform rapidly alternating movements.

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AGNOSIA

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an inability to recognize and interpret the significance of sensory impression.

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APRAXIA

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inability to carry out specific tasks.

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AUDITORY HALLUCINATION

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false perception of sound, usually voice but also other noises, such as music; most common hallucination in psychiatric disorders.

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AURA

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warning sensations such as automatisms, fullness in the stomach, vlushing and changes in respiration, cognitive sensations, and affective states usually experienced before a seizure; a sensory prodome that precedes a classic migraine headache.

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BLACKOUTS

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amnesia experienced by alcoholics about behavior during drinking bouts; usually indicates that reversible brain damage has occurred.

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COMMAND HALLUCINATION

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false perception of orders that a person may feel obliged to obey or unable to resist.

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DEJA VU

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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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DEPERSONALIZATION

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a person's subjective sense of being unreal, strange or unfamiliar.

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DEREALIZATION

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a subjective sense that the environment is strange or unreal; a feeling of changed reality.

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DISSOCIATION

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unconscious defense mechanism involving the segregation of any group of mental or behavioral processes from the rest of the person's psychic actiity; may entail the separation of an idea from it's accompanying emotional tone, as seen in dissociative and conversion disorders.

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DYSCALCULIA

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loss of ability to do calculations; not caused by anxiety or impairment in concentration.

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EIDETIC IMAGE

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visual memory of almost hallucinatory vividness.

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FALSE MEMORY

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a person's recollection and belief of an event that did not actually occur.

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FUGUE

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taking on a new identity with amnesia for the old identity; often involves travel or wandering to new environments.

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HYPNAGOGIC HALLUCINATION

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false sensory perception occuring while falling asleep; generally considered a nonpathological phenomenon.

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IMPAIRED INSIGHT

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diminished ability to understand the objective reality of situation.

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IMPAIRED JUDGEMENT

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diminished ability to understand a situation correctly and to act appropriately.

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REPRESSION

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a defense mechanism characterized by unconscius forgetting of unacceptable ideas or impulses.

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SYNESTHESIA

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sensation or hallucination caused by another sensation (e.g., an auditory sensation accompanied by or triggering a visual sensation; a sound experienced as being seen or a visual event experienced as being heard.