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| Lack or loss of memory; the inability to remember past experiences. |
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| Defect or loss of powe of expression, especially speech, but also writing or signing, or of comprehending either spoken or written language due to an injury or disease of the brain. |
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| The loss of the ability to carry out familiar, purposeful movements in the absence of paralysis or another motor or sensory impairment. |
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| A coarse, slow, non-rhythmic movement, usually of the outstretched hands, but also other muscle groups when there is sustained contraction of them. This is also called "liver flap" because it is associated with hepatic comas; however, it is observed in other conditions as well. |
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| Failure of muscular cordination resulting in a reeling, wide-based gait (the manner or style of walking). |
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| A form of dyskinesia marked by ceaseless slow, sinous, writhing movements, especially of the hands (picture a pianist just before he touches the keys, but slower) that is involuntary. |
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| A psychomotor disturbance usually (but not always) associated with schizophrenia. It can take on different forms and severity, including a decrease in reactivity to the environment, resistance to all instructions or attempts to be moved, maintenance of a rigid posture, excited, uncontrollable and purposeless motor activity, or the assumption of bizarre fixed postures. |
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| A burning pain due to injury of a peripheral nerve. |
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| A headache. There are many different types of headaches that occur for many different reasons. A few of these are stress headaches, cluster headaches, and one of the most severe, migraine headaches. |
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| The ceaseles occurence of a wide variety of rapid, highly complex, jerky, dyskinetic movements that appear to be well coordinated, but re performed involuntarily. There are several specific types of this. |
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| A violent jar or shock to the brain or the condition that results from such an injury. |
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| A violent, involuntary contraction or series of contractions of the usually voluntary muscles. Sometimes used interchangeably with seizure. |
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| an acute mental syndrome characterized by a reduced ability to maintain attention to external stimuli, disorganized thinking, rambling and incoherent speech, a reduced level of consciousness, incorrect sensory perceptions, disorientation to time, place, or person, and memory impairment. This is a reversible condition. |
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| A false belief that is firmly maintained despite irrefutable evidence to the contrary and in spite of members of the culture not sharing the belief. For example, an individual experiencing delusions might believe that he or she is a famous person. |
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| An organic mental syndrome characterized by a loss of intellectual abilities including impairment of memory, judgement, and abstract thinking, as well as changes in personality. This does not include functional lapses due to depression or clouding of consciousness as in delirium. It is caused by a large number of conditions, some reversible, and some progressive, which cause widespread cerebral damage. The most common cause is Alzheimer disease. |
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| A process whereby specific internal mental contents, such as memories, idease, feelings, perceptions, are lost to conscious awareness and become unavailable to voluntary recall. This is a defense mechanism where such mental processes are separated from the rest of a person's mental activity in order to avoid emotional distress. |
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| Slurring and inappropriate phrasing during speech, as well as inability to control speech volume, due to disturbances of muscular control. This is a result of central or peripheral nerve damage. |
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| The inability to perform rapid alternating movements. |
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| inability to control muscular range of motion. |
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| Impairment of speech, specifically lacking coordination and ability to arrange words in their proper order. |
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| Disquiet, restlessness, malaise. |
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| Brief, small irregular twitches of muscle visible through the skin, caused by a single motor filament. |
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| A sense perception without a source i the external world. The perception of an object or sound when no such object or sound exists. These can involve all of the senses, but the most cmmon are audio and visual hallucinations. |
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| Sleep disorders consisting of the need for excessive amounts of sleep or causing extreme drowsiness when awake. This can be either psychogenc in origin, have an organic cause involving the nevous system, or be relatd to medication or drug use. |
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| Abnormally decreased sensitivity, particularly to touch. |
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| dimished tone of the skeletal muscles. |
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| (suicidal/homicidal) ideation is the formation of a mental concept or image. Suicidal ideation is formulating thoughts about harming or killing oneself; homicidal ideation is formulating thoughts about harming or killing someone else. the presence of either of theses is taken very seriously in a medical, and specifically, a psychiatric setting. |
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| A vague feeling of bodily discomfort nd fatigue. |
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| A brief, lightning-like contraction of a muscle, a portion of a muscle, or a group of muscles. This occurs in normal healthy people as they fall asleep. A hiccup is a diaphragmatic myoclonus. |
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| Loss or impairment of motor function or sensation in a body part. |
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| The term used to describe behavior characterized by systematic delusions of persecution, delusions of grandeur, or a combination of the two. |
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| In general, this is a gross impairment in the capacity for sexual activity between adult human partners. There are different types of paraphilia, and they are muchmore predominant in males. the major paraphlias are listed below. |
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| The use of physical objects as the preferred method of producing sexual excitement (such as shoes). |
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| Adopting the clothes or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex. |
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| A preference for sexual activity with prepubescent children. |
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| Repetitive acts of exposing the genitals to an unsuspecting stranger for sexual excitation. |
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| The practice of obtaining sexual gratification from observing the naked bodies or sexual acts of others, especially from a secret vantage point. |
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| The deriving of sexual gratification from being physically or emotionally abused. |
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| The deriving of sexual gratification from inflicting pain or emotional abuse on others. |
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| Slight or imcomplete paralysis. |
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| Test on physical examination to determine the presence of carpal tunnel syndrome. |
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| Test performed during physical examination where the patients reports whether a finger or toe is being moved up or down. |
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| Test performed during physical examination where the patient stand with feet together or walk with his/her eyes closed to determine the presence of clumsiness in movements or gait. |
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| area of lost or depressed vision within the visual field. |
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| Sudden attack or recurrence of a disease. |
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| Lower level of consciousness. |
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| Involuntary, compulsive, repetitive movement. |
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| Tingling sensation in the distal end of a limb when percussion is made over the area of the median nerve at the wrist. |
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| Involuntary trembling or quivering. |
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| Illusory sense that either the environment orone's own body is revolving. |
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