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(perceptual disturbances)
Delusions
Advanced descriptors
Difficult patients
100
Besides normal (full range of expression) These are the 3 types of affective range.
What is -Constricted affect (some decrease in facial animation) -Blunted affect (fairly striking decrease in facial animation) -Flat affect (essentially no sign of spontaneous facial expression)
100
Perceptual misinterpretation of a real external stimulus
What is an illusion?
100
Exaggerated conception of one’s importance, power, or identity.
What is delusion of grandeur? Also know as megalomania
100
Difficulty in articulation, the motor activity of shaping phonated sounds into speech, not in word finding or in grammar.
What is dysarthria?
100
Coexistence of two opposing impulses toward the same thing in the same person at the same time. Seen in schizophrenia, borderline states, and obsessive–compulsive disorders (OCDs).
What is ambivalence?
200
Apprehension, tension or uneasiness which stems from the anticipation of danger, the source of which is largely unknown or unrecognized. Often based in excess worry or fear.
What is Anxiety? Anxiety is primarily of intrapsychic origin, in contrast to fear which is the emotional response to a consciously recognized and usually external threat or danger.
200
Hallucination primarily involving taste.
What is gustatory hallucination?
200
This generally involving persecutory or grandiose delusions, delusions of reference, control, and grandeur, with few other signs of personality disorganization or thought disorder.
What is paranoid delusions?
200
Inappropriate attitude of calm or lack of concern about one’s disability. May be seen in patients with conversion disorder.
What is la belle indifférence?
200
Pathological sleepiness or drowsiness from which one can be aroused to a normal state of consciousness.
What is somnolence?
300
Showing lack of interest, or indifference; lacking feeling.
What is apathy?
300
Illusion of visual recognition in which a new situation is incorrectly regarded as a repetition of a previous experience.
What is déjà vu?
300
Mental illness shared by two persons, usually involving a common delusion.
What is folie à deux? Also know as shared delusional disorder.
300
Inability or difficulty in describing or being aware of one’s emotions or moods; elaboration of fantasies associated with depression, substance abuse, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
What is alexithymia?
300
Tactile hallucination involving the sensation that tiny insects are crawling over the skin. Seen in cocaine addiction and delirium tremens.
What is formication?
400
Naming five words that begin with a given letter or listing the days of the week backwards test this.
What is Attention?
400
Hallucination occurring while awakening from sleep, not ordinarily considered pathological.
What is a hypnopompic hallucination? Compared to a hypnagogic hallucination, occurring while falling asleep.
400
Also known as Ekbom or Morgellons syndrome, these pts often present with the "specimen sign" and skin excoriations.
What is delusional parasitosis ? Also know as delusional infestation.
400
Denoting aspects of a person’s personality that are viewed as repugnant, unacceptable, or inconsistent with the rest of the personality.
What is ego-dystonia? Compared to ego syntonic.
400
Also known as delusions of misidentification, this delusion is the belief that a familiar person has been replaced by an impostor.
What is Capgras syndrome?
500
“People living in glass houses should not throw stones.” 
“You shouldn’t cry over spilt milk.” 
 “Two heads are better than one” Test this.
What is abstraction?
500
Visual sensation that persons or objects are reduced in size.
What is lilliputian hallucination?
500
A rare neuropsychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that he or she is dead.
What is Cotards delusion?
500
Dissociative disorder characterized by a period of almost complete amnesia, during which a person actually flees from an immediate life situation and begins a different life pattern; apart from the amnesia, mental faculties and skills are usually unimpaired.
What is dissociative fugue?
500
Inability to stand or to walk in a normal manner, even though normal leg movements can be performed in a sitting or lying down position. Seen in conversion disorder.
What is astasia abasia?
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