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| sleep disorders that involve abnormal and unnatural movements, behaviors, emotions, perceptions, and dreams that occur while falling asleep, sleeping, between sleep stages, or arousal from sleep |
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| loss of, or decrease in, appetite |
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| increase in intake of food |
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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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| inability to distinguish reality from fantasy; impaired reality testing with creation of a new reality |
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| thinking characterized by loosened associations, neologisms, and illogical constructs; thought process is disorded, and the person is defined as psychotic |
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| preoccupation with inner, private world; term used somewhat synonymously with dereism |
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| a form of dereistic thought; in which thoughts, words, or actions assume power (i.e. they can cause or prevent events) |
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| answer that is not in harmony with question asked (pt appears to ignore or not attend to question) |
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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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| thought that generally is not understandable; running together of thoughts or words w/ no logical or grammatical connection, resulting in disorganization |
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| incoherent mixture of words and phrases |
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| neologisms that simulate coherent speech; the expression of a revelatory message through unintelligible words (speaking in tongues); if religious, might not be a disturbance of thought |
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| abrupt interruption in train of thought before a thought or idea is finished |
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| rapid speech that is increased in amount and difficult to interrupt |
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| copious, coherent, logical speech |
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| rapid, continuous verbalizations or plays on words produce constant shifting from one idea to another |
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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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| indirect speech that is delayed in reaching the point but eventually gets from original point to desired goal |
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| inability to have goal-directed associations of thought; speaker never gets from point to desired goal |
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| meaningless repetition of specific words or phrases |
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| persisting response to a previous stimulus after a new stimulus has been presented |
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| psychopatholical repeating of words or phrases of one person by another |
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| compulsive utterance of obscene words |
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| difficulty in articulation, not in word finding or in grammar |
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| new word created by a pt, often by combining syllables of other words, for idiosyncratic psychological reasons |
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| loss of normal speech melody (should be called aprosody) |
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| lack of, or diminished, ability to sleep |
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| unreasonable, sustained false belief maintained less firmly than a delusion |
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| false belief, based on incorrect interference about external reality, not consistent w/ pt's IQ and culture, cannot be corrected by reasoning |
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| delusion of perception/reference |
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| person's false belief that behavior of others refers to himself or herself |
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| false beliefs united by single event or theme |
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| absurd, totally implausible, strange false belief |
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| delusion with mood-appropriate content |
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| mood incongruent delusion |
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| delusion w/ content that has no association to mood or is mood neutral |
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| false feeling that self, others, or world is nonexistent or coming to an end |
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| false belief that he or she is bereft or will be deprived of all material possessions |
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| false belief involving functioning of body |
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| delusion of persecution/grandeur/reference |
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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 or feelings are being controlled by external forces |
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| delusion of thought withdrawal |
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| delusion that thoughts are being removed from a person's mind by other persons or forces |
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| delusion of thought insertion |
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| delusion that thoughts are being implanted in a person's' mind by other persons/forces |
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| delusion of thought broadcasting |
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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 control |
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| delusion that a person's thoughts are being controlled by other persons or forces |
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| delusion of infidelity/jealousy |
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| delusion derived from pathological jealousy about a person's lover being unfaithful |
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| delusion, more common in women, that someone is deeply in love with them |
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| delusion of doubles (Capgras syndrome) |
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| delusional belief that a friend, spouse or other close family member, has been replaced by an identical-looking impostor |
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| type of lying in which a person appears to believe in the reality of his or her fantasies and acts on them |
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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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| pathological persistence of an irresistable thought or feeling that cannot be eliminated from consciousness by logical effort |
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| persistent, irrational, exaggerated, and invariably pathological dread of a specific stimulus or situation |
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| false sensory perception not associated with real external stimuli |
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| false sensory perception occuring while falling asleep |
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| hypnopompic hallucination |
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| false perception occuring while awakening from sleep |
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| false perception of sound, usually voices but also other noises, such as music; most common hallucination |
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| false perception involving sight consisting of both formed images and unformed images |
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| false perception of touch or surface sensation, as from amputated limb |
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| false sensation of things occurring in or to the body |
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| lilliputian hallucination |
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| false perception in which objects are seen as reduced in size |
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| sensation or hallucination caused by another sensation |
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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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| misinterpretation of real external sensory stimuli |
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| state in which objects seem larger than they are |
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| state in which objects seem smaller than they are |
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| a person's subjective sense of being unreal, strange, or unfamiliar |
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| a subjective sense that the environment is strange or unreal |
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| clouding of consciousness |
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| incomplete clear-mindedness with disturbances in perception and attitudes |
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| disturbance of orientation in time, place or person |
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| bewildered, restless, confused, disoriented reaction associate with fear and hallucinations |
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| lack of reaction to, and unawareness of, surroundings |
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| coma in which the patient appears to be awake with eyes open but cannot be aroused |
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| disturbed consciousness with hallucinations |
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| often used as a synonym for complex partial seizure or psychomotor epilepsy |
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| a state of impaired awareness associated with a desire or inclination to sleep |
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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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| complex feeling state w/ psychic, somatic and behavioral components that is related to affect and mood |
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| observed expression of emotion, possibly inconsistent w/ patient's description of emotion |
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| pervasive and sustained emotion subjectively experienced and reported by patient and observed by others |
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| condition in which the emotional tone is in harmony w/ the accompanying idea, thought or speech |
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| disharmony btwn the emotional feeling tone and the idea, thought or speech accompanying it |
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| constricted/restricted affect |
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| reduction in intensity of feeling tone, less severe than blunted but clearly reduced |
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| disturbance in affect manifested by severe reduction in the intensity of externalized feeling tone |
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| absence or near absence of any signs of affective expression; voice monotonous, face immobile |
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| rapid and abrupt changes in emotional feeling tone, unrelated to external stimuli |
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| a person's expression of feelings w/o restraint, frequently w/ overestimation of their significance or importance |
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| air of confidence and enjoyment |
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| intense elation w/ feelings of grandeur |
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| feelings of joy, euphoria, triumph, intense self-satisfaction, or optimism, and exaggerated motor activity |
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| combination of euphoria, elation and an attitude of grandeur |
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| feeling of intense rapture |
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| oscillations btwn euphoria and depression or anxiety |
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| loss of interest in, and withdrawal from, all regular and pleasurable activities |
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| sadness appropriate to a real loss |
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| a person's inability to, or difficulty in, describing or being aware of emotions or mood |
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| feeling of apprehension caused by anticipation of danger, which may be internal or external |
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| anxiety caused by consciously recognized and realistic danger |
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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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| severe anxiety associated w/ motor restlessness |
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| seen in catatonic schizophrenia and some patients w/ brain disease |
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| general term for an immobile position that is constantly maintained |
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| agitated, purposeless motor activity, uninfluenced by external stimuli |
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| markedly slowed motor activity |
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| voluntary assumption of a rigid posture |
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| voluntary assumption of an inappropriate or bizarre posture |
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| cerea flexibilitas (waxy flexibility) |
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| condition in which a person can be molded into a position that is then maintained. For instance, if one were to move the arm of someone with waxy flexibility, they would keep their arm where one moved it until it was moved again, as if it were made from wax. |
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| lack of physical movement |
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| motiveless resistance to all attempts to be moved or to all instructions |
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| temporary loss of muscle tone and weakness precipitated by a variety of emotional states |
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| repetitive fixed pattern of physical action or speech |
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| ingrained, habitual involuntary movements |
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| pathological need to act on an impulse that, if resisted, produces anxiety |
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| repetitive unconscious gestures such as lip smacking, chewing, or swallowing |
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| voicelessness w/o structural abnormalities |
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| hyperactivity/hyperkinesis |
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| restless, aggressive, destructive activity |
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| excessive motor and cognitive activity |
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| motor activity during sleep |
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| subjective feeling of muscular tension secondary to antipsychotic or other med |
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| decreased motor and cognitive activity |
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| inability to stand or walk in a normal manner |
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| acute, episodic, intense attack of anxiety associated w/ overwhelming feelings of dread and autonomic discharge |
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| inability to recall events occurring after a point in time |
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| inability to recall events occurring before a point in time |
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| generalized inability to recall events |
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| deliberate inability to recall an event's details |
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| falsification of memory by distortion of recall |
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| retrospective falsification |
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| memory becomes unintentionally distorted by being filtered through a person's present emotional, cognitive and experiential state |
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| unconscious filling of gaps in memory by imagined or untrue experiences that a person believes but has no basis in fact |
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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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| false feeling of unfamiliarity with a real situation that a person has experienced |
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| exaggerated degree of retention and recall |
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| visual memory of almost hallucinatory vividness |
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| temporary inability to remember a name or pronoun |
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| amnesia experienced by alcoholics about behavior during drinking |
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| partial or total inability to recall past experiences |
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