Cognition
x4 (person, time, place, situation)
What is orientation?
A lack of interest in different aspects of life, including normal daily tasks and social activities
What is apathy?
Inability to answer a question without giving excessive, unnecessary detail. Does eventually return to the original point.
What is circumstantial thought?
Unrelenting, rapid, often loud talking without pauses.
What is pressured speech?
Extreme motor inactivity
What is catatonia?
Can be assessed asking "repeat after me."
What is immediate recall?
Reduction in the intensity or range of emotional expression
What is blunted affect?
Wandering from the topic and never returning to it or providing the information requested
What is tangential thought
Meaningless repetition of another person’s spoken words
What is echolalia?
Unintentional, rhythmic, oscillatory movement
What is a tremor
Can be assessed by asking "spell WORLD backwards, counting to 100 in 5's"
What is attention?
Unpredictable shifts in emotional state
What is labile affect?
Incoherent slippage of ideas further and further from point of discussion
What is loose associations?
An impairment of language, affecting the production or comprehension of speech and the ability to read or write, due to damage of the brain.
What is aphasia?
Twisting/repetitive movement or abnormal fixed posturing
What is dystonia?
Explaining the similarities between objects, understand simple proverbs (a saying in general use)
What is abstraction?
In a profound state of unease or dissatisfaction
What is dysphoric affect?
Repetition of a particular response (e.g., word or phrase), regardless of the absence or cessation of a stimulus
What is perseveration?
Making up of new words
What is neologism?
Spontaneous verbal or motor behavior without patient awareness.
What is automatism?
Engaging, applying, exercising, realizing or practicing ideas
What is praxis?
Intense display of emotion
What is hyperthymic affect?
Abrupt cessation of speech without explanation in the middle of a sentence
What is thought blocking?
Groupings of words (usually rhyming), based on similar-sounding sounds, regardless of logical grouping.
What is clang associations?
Inner restlessness with inability to stay still.
What is akathisia?