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A pattern of observable behaviors that is the expression of a subjectively experienced feeling state (emotion).
Common examples include sadness, elation, and anger. |
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- Blunted
- Flat
- Inappropriate
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- Restricted or Constricted
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| 5 types of disturbances in affect: |
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| Significant reduction in the intensity of emotional expression. |
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| Absence or near absence of any signs of affective expression. |
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| Discordance between affective espression and the content of speech or ideation. |
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| Abnormal variability in affect with repeated, rapid, and abrupt shifts in affective expression. |
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Restricted or Constricted Affect |
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| Mild reduction in the range and intensity of emotional expression. |
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| Excessive motor activity associated with a feeling of inner tension. The activity is usually nonproductive and repetitious and consists of such behavior as pacing, fidgeting, wringing of the hands, pulling of clothes, and inability to sit still. |
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| A chemical entity extrinsic to endogenously produced substances that acts on a receptor and is capable of producing the maximal effect that can be produced by stimulating that receptor. |
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Agonist/Antagonist Medication |
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| A chemical entity to endogenously produced substances that acts on a family of receptors (such as mu, delta, and kappa opiate receptors) in such a fashion that it is an agonist or partial agonist on one type of receptor and an antagonist on another. |
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| An impoverished in thinking that is inferred from observing dpeech and language behavior. There may be brief and concrete replies to questions and restriction in the amount of spontaneous speech (poverty of speech). Sometimes the speech is adequate in amount but conveys little information because it is overconcrete, over-abstract, repetitive, or stereotyped (poverty of content.) |
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| Loss of memory of events that occur after the onset of the etiological condition or agent. |
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| Loss of memory of events that occurred before the onset of the etiological condition or agetn. |
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| A chemical entity extrinsic to endogenously produced substanat occupies a receptor, produces no physiologicl effects, and prevents endogenous and exogenous chemicals from producing an effect on that receptor. |
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| The apprehensive anticipation of future danger or mistortune accompanied by a feeling of dysphoria or somatic symptoms of tension. The focus of anticipated danger may be internal or external. |
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| An impairment in the understanding or transmission of ideas by language in any of its forms - reading, writing, or speaking - that is due to injury or disease of the brain centers involved in language. |
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| An inability to produce speech sounds that require the use of the larynx that is not due to a lesion in the CNS. |
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| Partial or complete loss of coordingation of coluntary muscular movement. |
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