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Schizophrenia Nursin
chapter 13 terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| akathisia | restless movement, pacing, inability to remain still |
| akinesia | complete or partial loss of muscle movement |
| alogia | deficit in both the quantity of speech and the quality of its expression |
| anhedonia | inability to feel pleasure |
| avolition | a psychological state characterized by general lack of desire, drive, or motivation to pursue meaningful goals |
| catatonia | state of unresponsiveness to one's outside environment, usually including muscle rigidity, staring, and inability to communicate |
| delusion | persistent belief that has no basis in reality |
| derailment | thought disorder in which there is a total break in the chain of association between the meaning of thoughts; the connection between the two sequential ideas is apparent neither to the patient nor to the examiner |
| dystonia | involuntary sustained or intermittent muscle contractions that cause twisting and repetitive movements, abnormal postures, or both |
| flattened affect | mask like... severe reduction in emotional expressiveness |
| grandiose delusion | a person's false belief that he or she possesses great wealth, intelligence, or power |
| hallucination | a false sensory perception that seems to be real but for which there is not an actual external stimulus |
| incoherence | without logical or meaningful connection; disjointed; rambling |
| neologistic word | making up a new word, meaning, usage, or phrase |
| persecutory delusion | a person's false belief that someone is plotting against him or her with intent to harm |
| psychotic | term applied to a person suffering from a gross impairment in reality testing that interferes with the ability to meet the ordinary demands of life; the person who is no longer able to perceive what is real and what is fantasy |
| referential delusion | the belief that certain public communications in fact contain specific hidden messages meant for the schizophrenic patient alone |
| schizophrenia | any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact |
| tangentiality | differs from circumstantiality in that the person never really gets to the point of the communication; unrelated topics are introduced, and the original discussion is lost. |
| tardive dyskinesia | involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs; a possible neurotoxic side effect of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs that target D2 dopamine receptors |
| word salad | incoherent mixture of words and phrases that seem totally unrelated |
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