General appearance, mood & affect
Trimmed beard, combed hair, neat appearance
What is kempt appearance?
Slowness of initiation and execution of physical activity
What is retardation?
Production of sound using breath
What is whispering?
State of awareness of oneself and surroundings
What is orientation?
Formation of new words
What is neologism?
Dressing not in conformity with the situation
What is inappropriate dressing?
Purposeless movement of extremities
What is restlessness?
Pathological repetition of same response
What is perseveration?
Recall of facts/events that occurred few years ago
What is remote memory?
Belief that there's no existence of one's body, mind, loved ones and the world around
What is Cotard syndrome?
A state of poor control over aggressive impulses directed towards others.
What is irritable affect?
Voluntary assumption of bizzare or inappropriate posture
What is odd posturing?
Grammatically correct speech that is unrelated to the question asked
What is irrelevant speech?
Excessive manifestation of a concept beyond relevance
What is over-abstraction?
Sudden arrest of train of thought leaving a blank
What is thought blocking?
Lack of depth of emotion
What is shallow affect?
Sudden, involuntary twitching of small groups of muscles
What are tics?
Association of words with sound and not meaning
What is clang association?
A hallucination that requires presence of another real sensation
What is a functional hallucination?
A belief that a familiar person/object has been replaced by an imposter
What is Capgras syndrome?
Pathologically increased mobility of affect
What is labile affect?
Maintaining the body posture into which one is place
What is waxy flexibility?
Loud, emphatic speech that is difficult to interrupt
What is pressured speech?
Unconscious filling of gaps in memory by imagining experiences
What is confabulation?
Rapid succession of thoughts with no general direction to thinking
What is flight of ideas?