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Conation / Psychomotor activity / motor behaviour

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Activity expressing a person’s impulses, drives, wishes, instincts, cravings and motivations

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Psychomotor retardation

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Decreased conation and motor behaviour expressing impulses, cravings, drive and wishes

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Psychomotor agitation

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Increased motor behaviour and conation expressing impulses, cravings, drive and wishes

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Catatonia

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Unresponsiveness to external stimuli

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Negativism

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A form of catatonia: Motiveless resistance against instruction, questioning or to be moved

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Stereotyped behaviour

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A symptom of catatonia - a repetitive fixed pattern of motor behaviour

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Mannerisms and tics

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A common symptom of catatonia

-habitual, repetitive, ingrained, unconscious movements

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Echopraxia

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A symptom of catatonia

-pathological imitation of another person’s movement

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Ataxia

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Muscle incoordination

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Tremor

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Involuntary, rapid, rhythmical alternating movement

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Chorea

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Involuntary, rapid, random, jerky purposeless movement

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Dyskinesia

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Difficulty performing voluntary movements

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Dystonia

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Sustained contractions of opposing muscle groups of the trunk or limbs

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Akathisia

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  • feeling of inner restlessness and muscle tension secondary to antipsychotic medication
  • presents with pacing and other psychomotor agitation signs
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Echolalia

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Pathological imitation of another person’s speech

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Logorhhoea

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Increase in quantity of speech

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Poverty of speech

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Decrease in quantity of speech

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Poverty of speech content

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Adequate amount of speech, but lacks information (vague)

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Pressure of speech

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Rapid speech of increased quantity that is difficult to interrupt

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Nonspontaneous speech

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Speech only in response to questions

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Dysprosody

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Loss of normal melody / prosody / rhythm of speech

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Stuttering

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Frequent repetition or prolongation of a sound or syllable leading to impaired speech fluency

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Dysarthria

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Problem with articulation (pronunciation of words)

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Aphasia

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Problem with language output

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Unpleasant/low mood
Dysphoric / melancholic
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Normal range of mood
Euthymic mood
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Abnormally increased mood “high”
Ecstatic Elevated Euphoric Elated
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Depressed
Psychopathologically sad state
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Mania
Mood characterised by elation, hyperactivity, hypersexuality, pressured speech and thought
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Labile mood
Alternating between depression and elation
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Alexithymic
Inability to be aware of or describe one’s emotions
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Anhedonic
Loss of interest in all pleasurable activities
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Affect
The objectively observed expression of emotion
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Restricted affect
Severe reduction of observable expression of emotion
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Blunted affect
Even greater (than restricted) reduction in observed expression of emotion
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Flat affect
Absence / near absence of observable expression of emotion
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Appropriate affect
Observable expression of emotion is in harmony with mood
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Inappropriate affect
Observable expression of emotion isn’t in harmony with the mood described
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Anxiety
Feeling of apprehension caused by anticipation of danger
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Fear
Anxiety caused by a real or realistic danger
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Phobia
Persistent irrational, exaggerated, pathological dread of a specific situation or stimulus
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Panic attack
Acute, episodic, intense attack of anxiety with autonomic symptoms associated with overwhelming feelings of dread
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Obsession
Pathological persistence of an irresistible thought or feeling that can’t be eliminated from consciousness by logical effort (associated with anxiety)
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Compulsion
Pathological need to act on an impulse Obsession, that if resisted, produces anxiety
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Psychosis
Inability to distinguish reality from fantasy
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3 groups of psychotic symptoms
``` Disordered thought form (how we think) -manifests as disorganised speech Disordered thought content (what we think of) -delusions Disordered perception -hallucinations and illusions ```
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Overinclusiveness
A type of thought form disorder Speech containing unnecessary excessive detail
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Perseveration
A type of thought form disorder Persistent response to a previous stimulus, even following a new stimulus
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Verbigeration
A type of thought form disorder Meaningless repetition of specific words or phrases
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Word salad
A type of thought form disorder Incoherent mixture of words or phrases
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Neologisms
A type of thought form disorder Made up words that don’t form part of any language
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Echolalia
A type of thought form disorder Pathological repeating of words or phrases of one person by another
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Delusion
Fixed false beliefs based on incorrect inferences about external reality, and that cannot be corrected by reasoning
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Delusion of persecution
Belief of being harrassed, cheated or persecuted
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Delusion of grandeur
Belief of exaggerated importance, power or identity
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Delusion of reference
Belief that behaviour of others refers to him/herself
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Delusion of poverty
Belief or being bereft of all material possessions
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Nihilistic delusion
Belief that oneself, others or the world is non-existent or coming to an end
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Somatic delusion
Belief surrounding a part of the body
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Delusion of control
Belief that one’s thoughts, will or feelings is being controlled by external forces
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Bizarre delusion
Absurd, totally implausible, strange belief
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Hallucination
False sensory perception not associated with real external stimuli - auditory - visual - olfactory - gustatory - tactile
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Cenesthetic hallucination
Perception of sensation in an organ unable to experience sensation
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Hypnagogic hallucination
Nonpathological perception occurring while falling asleep
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Hypnopompic hallucination
Nonpathological perception occurring while awakening | from sleep
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Illusion
Misperception / misinterpretation of real sensory stimuli

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