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Mental Health_terms
Schizophrenia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| inappropriate affect | speaking of a sad topic while laughing |
| autism | thinking is not bound to reality but reflects the private perceptual world of the individual. Delusions, hallucinations, and neologisms are examples of autistic thinking. |
| ambivalence | simultaneous presence of opposite emotions |
| associative looseness | characterized by stringing unrelated topics together |
| waxy flexibility | remains for a long period of time in the position that has been imposed by someone else |
| depersonalization | a nonspecific feeling that a person has lost his or her identity and that the self is different or unreal. Ex. the patient may see her fingers as snakes or her arms as rotting wood. (personal boundary difficulty) |
| derealization | a false perception that the environment has changed. (personal boundary difficulty) |
| S/S of impending relapse of Schizophrenia | feeling tense, difficulty concentrating, trouble sleeping, increased withdrawal, and increases in bizarre or magical thinking |
| Conventional Antipsychotics | target the Postitive symptoms of Schizophrenia (hallucinations, delusions, disordered thinking, and paranoia) |
| Atypical Antipsychotics | target both Positive (hallucinations, delusions, disordered thinking, and paranoia) and Negative (deficits in social interaction, blunted or inappropriate emotional expression, and lack of motivation) symptoms of Schizophrenia |
| acute dystonia | acute, often painful, sustained contraction of muscles, usually of the head and neck, which occur from 2-5 days after the introduction of antipsychotic medications |
| akathisia | psychomotor restlessness evident as pacing or fidgeting, sometimes pronounced and very distressing to patients |
| alogia | poverty of speech |
| anhedonia | the inability to experience pleasure |
| asociality | negative symptom of Schizophrenia characterized by an inability to 'empathise', to feel intimacy with, or to form close relationships with others |
| automatic obedience | the performance of all simple commands in a robotlike fashion; may be present in catatonia. |
| avolition | lack of motivation |
| blocking | a sudden obstruction or interruption in the spontaneous flow of thinking or speaking that is perceived as an absence or deprivation of thought. |
| clang association | the meaningless rhyming of words, often in a forceful manner |
| cognitive symptoms | abnormalities in how a person thinks |
| concrete thinking | thinking grounded in immediate experience rather than abstraction. There is an overemphasis on specific detail as opposed to general and abstract concepts. |
| circumstantial speech | a pattern of speech characterized by indirectness and delay before the person gets to the point or answers a question; the person gets caught up in countless details and explanations |
| delusion | a false belief held to be true even with evidence to the contrary (e.g., the false belief that one is being singled out for harm by others |
| grandiosity | exaggerated belief in or claims about one's importance or identity |
| delusions of persecution | a delusion (common in paranoia) that others are out to get you and frustrate and embarrass you or inflict suffering on you; a complicated conspiracy is frequently imagined |
| idea of reference | the false impression that outside events have special meaning for oneself |
| delusions of jealousy | believing that one's mate is unfaithful |
| delusions of control | believing that another person, group of people, or external force controls thought, feelings, impulses, or behavior |
| echolalia | repeating of the last words spoken by another; mimicry or imitation of the speech of another person |
| echopraxia | mimicry or imitation of the movements of another person |
| flat affect | absence of facial expression |
| hallucination | a sense of perception (seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, or touching) for which no external stimulus exists |
| auditory hallucinations | hearing voices or sounds |
| visual hallucinations | seeing persons or things |
| tactile hallucinations | feeling bodily sensations |
| olfactory hallucinations | smelling odors |
| gustatory hallucinations | experiencing tastes |
| illusion | an error in the perception of a sensory stimulus. For example, a person may mistake polka dots on a pillow for hairy spiders. |
| negative symptoms | the absence of something that should be present (apathy, lack of motivation, anhedonia, poor thought processes) |
| negativism | opposition or resistance, either covert or overt, to outside suggestions or advice |
| neologism | a word a person makes up that has meaning only for that person; often part of a delusional system. |
| paranoia | A state characterized by the presence of intense and strongly defended irrational suspicions. These ideas cannot be corrected by experience and cannot be modified by facts or reality. |
| positive symptoms | the presence of something that is not normally present (e.g., hallucinations, delusions, bizarre behavior, paranoia) |
| stereotyped behaviors | a motor pattern that originally had meaning to the person (e.g., sweeping the floor or washing windows) but has become mechanical and lacks purpose |
| stupor | a state in which a person is dazed and awareness of his or her environment appears deadened. For example, a person may sit motionless for long periods of time and in extreme cases may appear to be in a coma |
| tangentiality | a disturbance in associative thinking in which the speaker goes off the topic. When it happens frequently and the speaker does not return to the topic, interpersonal communication is destroyed |
| word salad | a mixture of words meaningless to the listener and to the speaker as well |
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