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Mental Health
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Akathsia | Restlessness; an urgent need for movement |
| Akinesia | Muscular weakness; loss or partial loss of muscle movement |
| Aphasia | Inability to communicate through speech |
| Apraxia | Inability to carry out motor activities despite intact motor function |
| Ataxia | Muscular incoordination |
| Dystonia | Involuntary muscular movements (spasms) of the face, arms, legs and neck |
| Echolia | Parrot-like repetition, by an individual with loose ego boundaries, of words spoken by another |
| Echopraxia | Imitation of another person's movements in an attempt to identify with that person |
| Neologism | New words that an individual invents that are meaningless to others, but have symbolic meaning to the psychotic person |
| Preservation | Persistent repetition of the same work or idea in response to different questions |
| Somatization | A method of coping with psychosocial stress by developing physical symptoms |
| Veracity | An ethical principle that refers to one's duty to always be truthful |
| Word Salad | A group of words that are put together in a random fashion without any logical connection |
| Confabulation | Creating imaginary events to fill memory gaps |
| Tardive Dyskinesia | A condition characterized by repetitive, involuntary movement, particularly of the face, such as, blinking, rolling tongue, lip smacking, and worm like motions of the tongue |
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