Typical Signs And Symptoms Of Psychiatric Illness Defined

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disturbance of orientation in time, place or person

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Disorientation

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incomplete clearmindedness with disturbances in perception and attitudes

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Clouding of consciousness

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Lack of reaction to and unawareness of surroundings

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Stupor

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Bewildered, restless, confused, disoriented reaction associated with fear and hallucinations

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Delurium

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Profound degree of unconsciousness

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Coma

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Coma in which a patient appears to be asleep but ready to be aroused

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Coma vigil

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Akinetic mutism

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Disturbed consciousness with hallucinations

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Twilight state

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Often used as a synonym for complex partial seizure or psychomotor epilepsy

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Dreamlike state

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Abnormal drowsiness

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Somnolence

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Disturbance of consciousness in which reactions to environmental stimuli are inappropriate; manifested by a disordered orientation in relation to time, place or person

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Confusion

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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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Syndrome in older people that usually occurs at night and is characterized by drowsiness, confusion, ataxia, and falling as the result of being overly sedated with medications also called sundowner's syndrome

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Sundowning

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Inability to concentrate attention ; state in which attention is drawn to unimportant external stimuli

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Distractability

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Blocking out only those things that generate anxiety

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Selective inattention

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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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Hypervigilance

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Focused attention and altered consciousness , usually seen in hypnosis, dissociative disorders and ecstatic religious experiences

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Trance

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Communicated emotional illness between two persons

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Folie a deux

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Communicated emotional illness between three persons

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Folie a trois

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Artificially induced modification of consciousness characterized by a heightened suggestibility

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Hypnosis

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Condition in which the emotional tone is in harmony with the accompanying idea, thought, or speech also further described as broad or full affect in which a full range of emotions is appropriately expressed

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Appropriate 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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Disturbance in affect manifested by a 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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Restricted/constricted 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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Rapid and abrupt changes in emotional feeling tone , unrelated to external stimuli

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Labile affect

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Unpleasant mood

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Dysphoric mood

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Normal range of mood, implying absence of depressed or elevated mood

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Euthymic mood

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

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Expansive mood

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A state in which a person is easily annoyed and provoked to anger

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Irritable mood

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Oscillations between euphoria and depression or anxiety

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Mood swings

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Labile mood

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Air of confidence and enjoyment; a mood more cheerful than usual

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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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Feeling of intense rapture

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Ecstasy

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Psychopathological feeling of sadness

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Depression

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Loss of interest in and withdrawal from all regular and pleasurable activities, often associated with depression

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Anhedonia

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Sadness appropriate to a real loss

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Grief or mourning

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Person's inability to describe or being aware of emotions

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Alexithymia

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Thoughts or act of taking one's own life

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Suicidal ideation

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Feelings of joy, euphoria, triumph, intense self-satisfaction or optimism

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Elation

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Feeling of apprehension caused by anticipation of danger (internal or external)

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Anxiety

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Pervasive, unfocused fear not attached to any idea

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Free-floating anxiety

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Anxiety caused by consciously recognized and realistic danger

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Fear

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Severe anxiety associated with motoe restlessness

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Agitation

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Increased and unpleasant motor and psychological activity

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Tension

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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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Dulled emotional tone associated with detachment

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Apathy

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

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Ambivalence

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Emotional release after recalling a painful experience

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Abreaction

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Failure to live up to self expectations

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Shame

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Emotion secondary to doing what is perceived as wrong

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Guilt

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Ability to resist an impulse , drive or temptation to perform an action

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Impulse control

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Severe depressive state

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Melancholia

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Involutional melancholia

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Loss of or decrease in appetite

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Anorexia

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Increase in apetite

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Hyperphagia

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Lack of or diminished ability to sleep

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Insomnia

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Difficulty falling asleep

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Initial Insomnia

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Difficulty in sleeping through the night without waking up and difficulty in going back to sleep

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Middle Insomnia

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Early morning awakening

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Terminal Insomnia

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Excessive sleeping

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Hypersomnia

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Mood is regularly worst in the morning, improves as day passes

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Diumal variation

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Decreased sexual interest , drive and performance

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Diminished libido

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Inabilty to defecate

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Constipation

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A feeling of weariness, sleepiness or irritability following a period of mental or bodily activity

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Fatigue

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Craving and eating of nonfood substances

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Pica

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Rare condition in which pt has signs and symptoms of pregnancy (abdominal distention, breast enlargement, pigmentation, cessation of menses, morning sickness)

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Pseudocyesis

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Insatiable hunger and voracious eating

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Bulimia

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Pathological imitation of movements of one person by another

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Echopraxia

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motiveless resistance to all attempts to be moved or to all instructioms

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Negativism

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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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Repetitive fixed pattern of physical action or speech

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Stereotypy

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Ingrained, habitual involuntary movement

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Mannerism

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Automatic performance of an act, acts generally representative of unconscious symbolic activity

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Automatism

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Excessive and compulsive need for coitus in a woman

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Nymphomania

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Excessive and compulsive need for coitus in a man

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Satyriasis

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Compulsion to pull out hair

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Trichotillomania

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Automatic activity, compulsive in nature, anxiety reducing in origin

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Ritual

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Failure of muscle coordination ; irregular of muscle action

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Ataxia

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Pathological overeating

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Polyphagia

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Rhythmical alteration in movement, which is usually faster than one beat a second

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Tremor

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Decreased motor and cognitive activity

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Hypoactivity

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Simple, imitative motor activity of childhood

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Mimicry

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Forceful, goal-directed, action that may be verbal or physical ; motor counterpart of the affect of rage, anger, or hostility

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Aggression

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Direct expression of an unconscious wish or impulse inaction

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Acting out

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Reduced impulse to act and think, associated with indifference about consequences of action

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Abulia

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Lack of energy

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Anergia

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Inability to stand or walk in a normal manner, even though normal leg movements can be performed in a sitting or lying position

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Astasia abasia

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Eating of filth

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Coprophagia

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Difficulty in performing voluntary movements

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Dyskinesia

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Muscles remain immovable

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Muscle rigidity

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Autism : rotate in direction where their head is turned

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Twirling

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Slowness of motor activity with a decrease in normal spontaneous movement

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Bradykinesia

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Random & involuntary quick, jerky, purposeless movements

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Chorea

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An imvoluntary, violent muscular contraction or spasm

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Convulsion

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Convulsion: muscles alternately contract & relax

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Clonic

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Convulsion: muscle contraction is sustained

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Tonic

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Attack of certain symptoms such as convulsions, loss of consciousness, and psychic or sensory disturbances

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Seizure

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Onset of tonic-clonic movements

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Generalized tonic-clonic seizure

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Localized ictal onset of seizure without alterations in consciousness

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Simple partial seizure

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Localized ictal onset of seizure with alterations in consciousness

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Complete partial seizure

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Slow, sustained contractions of trunk/limbs

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Dystonia

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Clinically significant behavior associated with distress or disability

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Mental disorder

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Inability to distinguish reality from fantasy ; impaired reality testing

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Psychosis

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Objective evaluation and judgement of the world outside the self

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Reality testing

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Disturbance in the form of thought rather than the content of thought

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Formal thought disorder

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Thinking containing erroneous conclusions or internal contradictions : psychopathological only when it is marked and not caused by intellectual deficit/cultural values

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Illogical thinking

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Mental activity not concordant with logic or experience

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Dereism

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Preoccupation with inner private world

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Autism thinking

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Form of dereism, thinking similar to preoperation phase in which thoughts, words or actions assume power

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Magical thinking

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Thinking that is illogical, magical: found in dreams

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Primary process thinking

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Deep level of understanding/awareness that is likely to lead to positive changes in personality or behavior

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Emotional insight

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New word created by a patient

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Neologism

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Incoherent mixture of words and phrases

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Word salad

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Indirect speech that is delayed in reaching the point but eventually gets from original point to desired goal

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Circumstantiality

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Inability to have goal-directed associations of thought ; never gets from desired point to desired goal

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Tangentiality

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Thought that generally is not understandable : disorganized thoughts

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Incoherence

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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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Meaningless repetition of specific words

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Verbigeration

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Psychopathological repeating of words ; spoken with mocking or staccato intonation

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Echolalia

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Fusion of various concepts into one

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Condensation

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Answer that is not im harmony with question asked

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Irrelevant answer

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

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Loosening of associations

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Gradual or sudden deviation in train of thought without blocking

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Derailment

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Rapid, continuous verbalization or plays on words produce constant shifting from one idea to another ; ideas tend to be conected, pag less severe, listener may be able to follow

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Flight of ideas

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Association of words similiar in sound but not in meaning ; rhyming/punning

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Clang association

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Abrupt interruption in train of thinking before a thought is finished, after a brief pause, person can't recall previous thought

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Blocking

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Thought deprivation

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Expression of revelatory message through unintelligible words

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Glossolalia

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Speaking in tongues

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Thought that gives little information because of vagueness, empty repetitions or obscure phrases

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Poverty of content

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Unreasonable, sustainable false belief maintained less firmly than a delusion

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Overvalued idea

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False belief, incorrect inference about external reality

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Delusion

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Absurd false, strange belief

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Bizzare delusion

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Invaders from space implanted stuff on human brain

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False beliefs united by single event/theme

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Systemized delusion

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Person persecuted by mafia

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Delusion with mood appropriate content

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Mood-congruent delusion

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Depressed girl believes she is responsible for the destruction of the world

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Delusion with content that has no association to mood

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Mood-incongruent delusion

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Depressed patient thought control

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False feeling that self or world is non-existent or coming to an end

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Nihilistic delusion

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False belief that he or she will be deprived of all material possessions

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Delusion of poverty

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False belief regarding function of the body

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Somatic delusion

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False belief that he or she is being harrased, cheating, or persecuted

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Paranoid: Delusion of persecution

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A person's exaggerated conception of his or her importance, power or identity

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Paranoid: Delusion of grandeur

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False belief that behavior of others refers to himself

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Paranoid: Delusion of Reference

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People on tv are talking about me

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Delusion of self-accusation

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False feeling of remorse and guilt

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False feeling that a person's will, thoughts, feelings are controlled by external forces

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Delusion of control

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Automatic following of suggestions

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Command automatism

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Automatic obedience

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Voicelessness without structural abnormalities

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Mutism

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Excessive motor and cognitive overactivity

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Psychomotor agitation

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Restless, aggressive, destructive acrivity

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Hyperactivity

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Involuntary, spasmodic, motor movement

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Tic

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Motor activity during sleep

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Sleepwalking

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Subjective feeling of muscular tension secondary to antipsychotic

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Akathisia

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Uncontrollable impulse to perform an act repetitively

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Compulsion

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Compulsion to drinking alcohol

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Dipsomania

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Compulsion to steal

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Kleptomania