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Behav Med: 6 Psychotic Disorders
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10/13/2010

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Affect
Definition
The expression of emotion as observed by others, outward manifestations that can be observed, can vary over time, in response to changing emotional states
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Inappropriate affect
Definition
disharmony btwn the emotional feeling tone and the idea, thought, or speech accompanying it
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Flat affect
Definition
absence or near absence of any signs of affective expression; voice monotonous, face immobile
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Echopraxia
Definition
pathological imitation of movements of one person by another
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catatonia
Definition
motor anomalies in NON ORGANIC disorders
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catalepsy
Definition
general term for an immobile position that is constantly maintained
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Cerea flexibilitas (waxy flexibilty)

 

Definition
the person can be molded into a position that is then maintained; when the examiner moves the person's limb, the limb feels as if it were made of wax
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negativism
Definition
motiveless resistance to all attempts to be moved or to all instructions
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stereotypy
Definition
repetitive fixed pattern of physical action or speech
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General disturbance in for or process of thinking:

Psychosis

Definition
inability to distinguish reality from fantasy; impaired reality testing, with creation of a new reality
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Specific disturbances in form of thought:

Neologism

Definition
new word created by the pt, often from combining syllables of other words, for idiosyncratic psychological reasons
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Specific disturbances in form of thought:

word salad

 

Definition
incoherent misture of words and phrases
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Specific disturbances in form of thought:

Circumstantiality

 

Definition
indirect speech that is delayed in reaching the point but eventually gets from original point to desired goal; characterized by an over inclusion of detail and parenthetical remarks
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Specific disturbances in form of thought:

Tangentiality

 

Definition
inability to have goal-directed associations of thought; pt never gets from desired point to desired goal
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Specific disturbances in form of thought:

Echolalia

Definition
psychopathological repeating of words or phrases of one person by another; tends to be repetitive and persistent, may be spoken with mocking or staccato intonation
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Specific disturbances in form of thought:

Losening of associations

Definition
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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Specific disturbances in form of thought:

Clang associations

Definition
associations of words similar in sound but not meaning; words have no logical connection, may include rhyming and punning
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Specific disturbances in form of thought:

Blocking

(thought deprivation)

Definition
abrupt interruption in train of thinking before a thought or idea is finished; after brief pause, person indicates no recall of what was being said or was going to be said
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Specific disturbances in content of thought:

Poverty of content

Definition
thought that gives little info bc of vagueness, empt repetitions, or obscure phrases
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Specific disturbances in content of thought:

delusions

Definition
false belief, based on incorrect interference about external reality, not consistent with pt's intelligence and cultural background, that cannot be corrected by reasoning
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Disturbances in Suggestibility:

Folie a deux

 

Definition
communicated emotional illness btwn two persons
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Perception

 

Definition
process of transferring physical stimulaiton into psychological info; mental process by which sensory stimuli are brought to awareness
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Disturbances of perception:

Hallucination

Definition
false sensory perception not associated with real external stimuli
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Disturbances of Perception:

Auditory Hallucination

Definition
false perception of sound, usually voices but also other noises such as music; most common hallucination in psychiatric disorders
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Disturbances of Perception:

Visual Hallucinations

 

 

Definition
false perception involving sight consisting of both formed images (people) and unformed images (flashes of light)
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Disturbances of Perception:

Olfactory hallucination

Definition
false perception in smell; most common in organic disorders (usually stem from a brain tumor, not a psychotic d/o)
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Disturbances of Perception:

Gustatory hallucination

Definition
false perception of taste, such as unpleasant taste caused by an uncinate seizure; most commin in organic disorders
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Disturbances of Perception:

tactile (haptic) hallucination

Definition
false percpetion of touch or surface sensation, as from an amputated limb (phantom limb), crawling sensation on or under the skin (formication)
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Disturbances of Perception:

Somatic Hallucination

(cenesthetic hallucination)

Definition
false sensation of things occurring in or to the body, most often visceral in origin
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Disturbances of Perception:

Illusion

 

Definition
misperception or misinterpretation of real external sensory stimuli
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Delusional Disorders:

Erotomanic Type

Definition
delusions that another person, usually of higher status, is in love with the individual
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Delusional Disorders:

Grandiose Type

 

Definition
delusions of inflated worth, power, knowledge, identity, or special relationship to a deity or famous person
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Delusional Disorders:

Jealous Type

 

Definition
delusions that the individual's sexual partner is unfaithful
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Delusional Disorders:

Persecutory Type

 

Definition
delusions that the person (or someone to whom the person is close) is being malevolently treated in some way
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Delusional Disorders:

Somatic Type

 

Definition
delusions that the person has some physical defect or general medical condition ( three main types- parasitosis, dysmorphophobia, foul body odors or hallitosis)
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Delusional Disorders:

Mixed Type

 

Definition
delusions characterized of more than one type but no one theme predominates
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