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| Loss of, or decrease in, appetite |
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| Increase in intake of food |
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| Thinking refers to the ideational components of mental activity, processes used to imagine, appraise, evaluate, forecast, plan, create and will. |
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| Inability to distinguish reality from fantasy; impaired reality testing with the creation of a new reality |
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| Thinking characterized by loosened associations, neologisms, and illogical constructs; thought process is disordered, and the person is defined as psychotic |
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| Preoccupation with inner, private world; term used somewhat synonymously with dereism. (One of the four A‘s of schizophrenias.) |
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| A form of dereistic thought; in which thoughts, words, or actions assume power (for example, they can cause or prevent events) |
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| Answer that is not in harmony with question asked (patient appears to ignore or not attend to question) |
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| 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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| Thought that generally is not understandable; running together of thoughts or words with no logical or grammatical connection, resulting in disorganization |
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| Thought that generally is not understandable; running together of thoughts or words with no logical or grammatical connection, resulting in disorganization |
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| Incoherent mixture of words and phrases |
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| Neologisms that simulate coherent speech; the expression of a revelatory message through unintelligible words (also known as speaking in tongues); not considered a disturbance in thought if associated with practices of specific religions |
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| Abrupt interruption in train of thought before a thought or idea is finished. |
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| Rapid speech that is increased in amount and difficult to interrupt. |
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| Copious, coherent, logical speech. Can't interrupt. |
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| Rapid, continuous verbalizations or plays on words produce constant shifting from one idea to another. |
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| Association of words similar in sound but not in meaning; words have no logical connection; may include rhyming and punning |
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| Indirect speech that is delayed in reaching the point but eventually gets from original point to desired goal |
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| Inability to have goal-directed associations of thought; speaker never gets from point to desired goal |
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| Meaningless repetition of specific words or phrases |
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| Persisting response to a previous stimulus after a new stimulus has been presented |
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| Psychopathological repeating of words or phrases of one person by another |
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| Compulsive utterance of obscene words |
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| Difficulty in articulation, not in word finding or in grammar |
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| New word created by a patient, often by combining syllables of other words, for idiosyncratic psychological reasons. |
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| Loss of normal speech melody (called prosody). Should be called aprosody. |
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| Unreasonable, sustained false belief maintained less firmly than a delusion |
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| False belief, based on incorrect interference about external reality, not consistent with patient‘s intelligence and cultural background; cannot be corrected by reasoning. |
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| Delusion of perception (or delusion of reference) |
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| A person‘s false belief that the behavior of others refers to himself or herself. |
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| False belief or beliefs united by a single event or theme. |
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| An absurd, totally implausible, strange false belief |
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| Delusion with mood-appropriate content |
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| Mood incongruent delusion |
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| Delusion with content that has no association to mood or is mood neutral |
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| False feeling that self, others, or the world is nonexistent or coming to an end |
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| A person‘s false belief that he or she is bereft or will be deprived of all material possessions. |
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| False belief involving functioning of the body. |
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| Delusion of self-accusation |
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| False feeling of remorse and guilt. |
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| False feeling that a person‘s will, thoughts or feelings are being controlled by external forces |
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| Delusion of thought withdrawal |
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| Delusion that thoughts are being removed from a person‘s mind by other persons or forces |
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| Delusion of thought insertion |
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| Delusion that thoughts are being implanted in a person‘s mind by other persons or forces. |
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| Delusion of thought broadcasting |
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| Delusion that a person‘s thoughts can be heard by others, as though being broadcast over the air |
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| Delusion of thought control |
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| Delusion that a person‘s thoughts are being controlled by other persons or forces |
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| Delusion of infidelity or delusion of jealousy |
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| False belief derived from pathological jealousy about a person‘s lover being unfaithful. |
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| Delusional belief, more common in women than men, that someone is deeply in love with them |
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| "You look like my mom, but you aren't my mom". More common in kids. Capgras syndrome |
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| A type of lying in which a person appears to believe in the reality of his or her fantasies and acts on them |
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| Exaggerated concern about health that is based not on real organic pathology, but rather on unrealistic interpretations of physical signs or sensations as abnormal |
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| Pathological persistence of an irresistible thought or feeling that cannot be eliminated from consciousness by logical effort |
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| Persistent, irrational, exaggerated, and invariably pathological dread of a specific stimulus or situation |
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| False sensory perception not associated with real external stimuli |
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| False sensory perception occurring while falling asleep. |
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| Hypnopompic hallucination |
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| False perception occurring while awakening from sleep |
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| False perception of sound, usually voices but also other noises, such as music; most common hallucination in psychiatric disorders |
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| False perception involving sight consisting of both formed images and unformed images |
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| False perception of smell |
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| False perception of taste |
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| Tactile (haptic) hallucination |
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| False perception of touch or surface sensation, as from an amputated limb |
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| False sensation of things occurring in or to the body |
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| Lilliputian hallucination |
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| False perception in which objects are seen as reduced in size |
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| Sensation or hallucination caused by another sensation (e.g., an auditory sensation accompanied by or triggering a visual sensation) |
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| Perceptual abnormality associated with hallucinogenic drugs in which moving objects are seen as a series of discrete and discontinuous images |
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| Misinterpretation of real external sensory stimuli. |
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| State in which objects seem larger than they are |
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| State in which objects seem smaller than they are |
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| A person‘s subjective sense of being unreal, strange or unfamiliar |
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| A subjective sense that the environment is strange or unreal |
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| Clouding of consciousness |
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| Incomplete clear-mindedness with disturbances in perception and attitudes |
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| Disturbance of orientation in time, place or person |
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| Bewildered, restless, confused, disoriented reaction associated with fear and hallucinations |
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| Lack of reaction to, and unawareness of, surroundings |
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| Coma in which a patient appears to be awake with eyes open but cannot be aroused |
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| Disturbed consciousness with hallucinations |
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| Often used as a synonym for complex partial seizure or psychomotor epilepsy |
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| A state of impaired awareness associated with a desire or inclination to sleep |
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| Syndrome in older persons that usually occurs at night and is characterized by drowsiness, confusion, ataxia, and falling as the result of being overly sedated with medications |
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