MOST important TERMINOLOGY related psychiatric
1.Akathisia:
Motor restlessness, inability to sit still.
2.Anhedonia:
Inability to experience pleasure in any activity
3.Amnesia:
Partial or total inability to recall fast experience organic or emotional.
4.Apathy:
Lack of emotional feeling
5.Anorexia nervosa:
Characterized by extreme concern with body weight, an intense fear of becoming fat, and maintenance of body weight below expected level.
6.Blunt affect:
A reduction in emotional experience.
7.Circumstantiality:
A pattern of communication that is includes many irreverent and unnecessary trivial detailed in his speech before he is able to come to the point.
8.Idea of reference:
It is an incorrect belief that the statements or actions of others are related to oneself.
9.Déjà vu:
A subjective feeling that an event which is occurring for the first time has been experienced before.
10.Delusion:
A false, fixed and unshakeable belief which is not amenable to reasoning and is not in keeping with the patients sociocultural and educational background.
11.Dystonia:
Muscle rigidity that affects posture, gait, and eye movement.
12.Echolalia:
Pathological repetition by imitation of the speech of another.
13.Echopraxia:
Pathological repetition by imitation of the behavior or act of another.
14.Encopresis:
Involuntary passage of feces in inappropriate place after age of voluntary control has been established.
15.Euphoria:
Excessive feeling of happiness.
16.Grandiose:
Unrealistic or exaggerated sense of self worth importance wealth or ability
17.Hallucination:
A false sensory perception in the absence of an actual external stimulus.
18.Illusion:
The misinterpretation of real external sensory experience. It is mental misperception of actual sensory stimuli.
19.Insight:
Awareness of ones own mental illness.
20.Jamais vu:
Failure to recognize events that have been encountered before.
21.Palilalia:
Compulsive repetition of one word (usually last one)phrase
22.Stupor-
A state in which the individual does not reach to his surroundings and aPpears to be unaware of them
23.Tangentiality:
A form of thinking /speech in which the tends to wander away m the intended point, and never returning to the original idea.
24.Thought block: A sudden interruption in the thought process before the thought is completed. After a pause, the subject can not recall what he had meant to say
25.Tic:
Sudden, repetitive, stereotyped motor movement or verbal speech
26.Waxy flexibility: A condition by which the individual with schizophrenia passively yields all movable parts of the body to any efforts made at placing them in certain position
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