Disorders in psychiatry are often described as syndromes, a constellation of signs and symptoms that together make up a recognizable condition. this ppt help in understanding basic sign and symptoms of psychiatry.
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The word delirium means “out of one’s furrow” which refers to the dramatic behavior changes that the person may experience. Some have called delirium "brain failure” because it may represent a variety of caused such as heart failure does in cardiac health.
Delirium is an outcome of a general medical condition, head injury and drug intoxication or withdrawal.
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Special Kinds of Hallucinations from Fish’s Clinical Psychopathology including functional, reflex extracampine and autoscopic hallucination, and patient’s attitude towards hallucination.
Paranoid schizophrenia is characterized by predominantly positive symptoms of schizophrenia, including delusions and hallucinations. These debilitating symptoms blur the line between what is real and what isn't, making it difficult for the person to lead a typical life.
Insight is one of the crucial components of a mental status examination in Psychiatry. Scarce data is available in the standard textbooks on this concept.
The following presentation was made after going through the myriad of articles and case studies i found online.
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The word delirium means “out of one’s furrow” which refers to the dramatic behavior changes that the person may experience. Some have called delirium "brain failure” because it may represent a variety of caused such as heart failure does in cardiac health.
Delirium is an outcome of a general medical condition, head injury and drug intoxication or withdrawal.
obsessive compulsive and related disorders (OCD)mamtabisht10
Obsessive-Compulsive and related disorders include obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), body dysmorphic disorder, hoarding disorder, trichotillomania (hair-pulling disorder), and excoriation (skin-picking) disorder.
Special Kinds of Hallucinations from Fish’s Clinical Psychopathology including functional, reflex extracampine and autoscopic hallucination, and patient’s attitude towards hallucination.
Paranoid schizophrenia is characterized by predominantly positive symptoms of schizophrenia, including delusions and hallucinations. These debilitating symptoms blur the line between what is real and what isn't, making it difficult for the person to lead a typical life.
Insight is one of the crucial components of a mental status examination in Psychiatry. Scarce data is available in the standard textbooks on this concept.
The following presentation was made after going through the myriad of articles and case studies i found online.
In Psychiatry and Psychology, Insight means the recognition of one’s own condition. (mental illness)
It refers to:-
the conscious awareness and understanding of one’s own psychodynamics and symptoms of maladaptive behavior; highly important in effecting changes in the personality and behavior of a person.
insight,
true insight,
impaired insight,
judgement,
mental status examination,
Multi-dimensional model of Insight,
Grades of Insight, intellectual insight
assesment
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Individuals are capable of receiving information and
organizing it into meaningful entities. This processing
of the information to represent reality is called
PERCEPTION.
Perception is derived from Latin term, perceptio,
which means organization, identification, and
interpretation of sensory information.
It refers to the way world looks, sounds, feels, tastes
and smells, i.e. whatever is experienced by the person.
Sensory Distortions:-
perception of the
constant real object in a
distorted manner.
Sensory Deceptions:-
new perception in
response to external
stimuli.
Sensory Distortion:-
Change in intensity
Change in quality
Change in spatial form
Distortions of experience of time
Changes in Intensity (hyperaesthesia and
hypoaesthesia):-
Hyperaesthesia:- increased intensity of sensations.
intense emotions
lowering of physiological threshold
Anxiety and depressive disorder as well as hangover from
headache or migraine,- increased sensitivity to noise
(hyperacusis)
Hypomanic under influence of LSD (lysergic acid
diethylamide), seeing colours as bright and intense.
A true hypoacusis occurs in delirium, threshold for all
sensations are raised, associated with depression and ADD
(attention-deficit disorder).
Changes in Quality:- are mainly visual distortions
which colour all perceptions, because of toxic
substances.
Xanthopsia- colouring of yellow; by santonin
Chloropsia- colouring of green
Erythropsia- colouring of red
In derealisation, everything appears to unreal, while in
mania object looks perfect and beautiful.
Changes in Spatial Form (dysmegalopsia):- is
change in perceived shape of object, caused due to-
retinal disease
disorders of accommodation
disorders of convergence
temporal lobe lesions (mainly affecting posterior lobe)
Micropsia, seeing objects as smaller; macropsia
(meagalopsia) seeing objects as bigger.
Macropsia and micropsia have been used for changes
in perception of size in dreams and hallucination.
Micropsia:- is a visual disorder
in which patient sees object;
smaller than they really are
farther away than they really
are
experience of retreat of objects
into distance, without any
change in size (porropsia)
Oedema of retina image falls on
functionally smaller part of
retina
Partial paralysis of
accommodation
Macropsia:-
Scarring of retina with retraction
(distortion produced by scarring is
usually irregular, metamorphopsia
is more likely to occur)
Complete paralysis or
over-reactivity of accommodation
during near vision causes
macropsia.
If accommodation is normal but
convergence is weakened,
macropsia occurs and vice versa.
Although hypoxia and rapid
acceleration of body can affect
accommodation and convergence,
dysmegalopsia is rare among high
altitude pilots.
Disorders of Experience of Time:- There are two
varieties of time, physical and personal.
The psychiatric disorders are affected by personal
time.
Time flies when one is happy (in case of mania) and
time stops when one is sad (in case of de
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Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person’s self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs. This is why drug addiction is also a relapsing disease.
Relapse is the return to drug use after an attempt to stop. Relapse indicates the need for more or different treatment.
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Title: Sense of Smell
Presenter: Dr. Faiza, Assistant Professor of Physiology
Qualifications:
MBBS (Best Graduate, AIMC Lahore)
FCPS Physiology
ICMT, CHPE, DHPE (STMU)
MPH (GC University, Faisalabad)
MBA (Virtual University of Pakistan)
Learning Objectives:
Describe the primary categories of smells and the concept of odor blindness.
Explain the structure and location of the olfactory membrane and mucosa, including the types and roles of cells involved in olfaction.
Describe the pathway and mechanisms of olfactory signal transmission from the olfactory receptors to the brain.
Illustrate the biochemical cascade triggered by odorant binding to olfactory receptors, including the role of G-proteins and second messengers in generating an action potential.
Identify different types of olfactory disorders such as anosmia, hyposmia, hyperosmia, and dysosmia, including their potential causes.
Key Topics:
Olfactory Genes:
3% of the human genome accounts for olfactory genes.
400 genes for odorant receptors.
Olfactory Membrane:
Located in the superior part of the nasal cavity.
Medially: Folds downward along the superior septum.
Laterally: Folds over the superior turbinate and upper surface of the middle turbinate.
Total surface area: 5-10 square centimeters.
Olfactory Mucosa:
Olfactory Cells: Bipolar nerve cells derived from the CNS (100 million), with 4-25 olfactory cilia per cell.
Sustentacular Cells: Produce mucus and maintain ionic and molecular environment.
Basal Cells: Replace worn-out olfactory cells with an average lifespan of 1-2 months.
Bowman’s Gland: Secretes mucus.
Stimulation of Olfactory Cells:
Odorant dissolves in mucus and attaches to receptors on olfactory cilia.
Involves a cascade effect through G-proteins and second messengers, leading to depolarization and action potential generation in the olfactory nerve.
Quality of a Good Odorant:
Small (3-20 Carbon atoms), volatile, water-soluble, and lipid-soluble.
Facilitated by odorant-binding proteins in mucus.
Membrane Potential and Action Potential:
Resting membrane potential: -55mV.
Action potential frequency in the olfactory nerve increases with odorant strength.
Adaptation Towards the Sense of Smell:
Rapid adaptation within the first second, with further slow adaptation.
Psychological adaptation greater than receptor adaptation, involving feedback inhibition from the central nervous system.
Primary Sensations of Smell:
Camphoraceous, Musky, Floral, Pepperminty, Ethereal, Pungent, Putrid.
Odor Detection Threshold:
Examples: Hydrogen sulfide (0.0005 ppm), Methyl-mercaptan (0.002 ppm).
Some toxic substances are odorless at lethal concentrations.
Characteristics of Smell:
Odor blindness for single substances due to lack of appropriate receptor protein.
Behavioral and emotional influences of smell.
Transmission of Olfactory Signals:
From olfactory cells to glomeruli in the olfactory bulb, involving lateral inhibition.
Primitive, less old, and new olfactory systems with different path
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Title: Sense of Taste
Presenter: Dr. Faiza, Assistant Professor of Physiology
Qualifications:
MBBS (Best Graduate, AIMC Lahore)
FCPS Physiology
ICMT, CHPE, DHPE (STMU)
MPH (GC University, Faisalabad)
MBA (Virtual University of Pakistan)
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Describe the structure and function of taste buds.
Describe the relationship between the taste threshold and taste index of common substances.
Explain the chemical basis and signal transduction of taste perception for each type of primary taste sensation.
Recognize different abnormalities of taste perception and their causes.
Key Topics:
Significance of Taste Sensation:
Differentiation between pleasant and harmful food
Influence on behavior
Selection of food based on metabolic needs
Receptors of Taste:
Taste buds on the tongue
Influence of sense of smell, texture of food, and pain stimulation (e.g., by pepper)
Primary and Secondary Taste Sensations:
Primary taste sensations: Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Umami
Chemical basis and signal transduction mechanisms for each taste
Taste Threshold and Index:
Taste threshold values for Sweet (sucrose), Salty (NaCl), Sour (HCl), and Bitter (Quinine)
Taste index relationship: Inversely proportional to taste threshold
Taste Blindness:
Inability to taste certain substances, particularly thiourea compounds
Example: Phenylthiocarbamide
Structure and Function of Taste Buds:
Composition: Epithelial cells, Sustentacular/Supporting cells, Taste cells, Basal cells
Features: Taste pores, Taste hairs/microvilli, and Taste nerve fibers
Location of Taste Buds:
Found in papillae of the tongue (Fungiform, Circumvallate, Foliate)
Also present on the palate, tonsillar pillars, epiglottis, and proximal esophagus
Mechanism of Taste Stimulation:
Interaction of taste substances with receptors on microvilli
Signal transduction pathways for Umami, Sweet, Bitter, Sour, and Salty tastes
Taste Sensitivity and Adaptation:
Decrease in sensitivity with age
Rapid adaptation of taste sensation
Role of Saliva in Taste:
Dissolution of tastants to reach receptors
Washing away the stimulus
Taste Preferences and Aversions:
Mechanisms behind taste preference and aversion
Influence of receptors and neural pathways
Impact of Sensory Nerve Damage:
Degeneration of taste buds if the sensory nerve fiber is cut
Abnormalities of Taste Detection:
Conditions: Ageusia, Hypogeusia, Dysgeusia (parageusia)
Causes: Nerve damage, neurological disorders, infections, poor oral hygiene, adverse drug effects, deficiencies, aging, tobacco use, altered neurotransmitter levels
Neurotransmitters and Taste Threshold:
Effects of serotonin (5-HT) and norepinephrine (NE) on taste sensitivity
Supertasters:
25% of the population with heightened sensitivity to taste, especially bitterness
Increased number of fungiform papillae
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Signs and symptoms in psychiatry
1. SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS IN
PSYCHIATRY
By:
DR. ROBIN VICTOR
PGT, DEPT OF PSYCHIATRY
SMCH
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2. Introduction
In PSYCHIATRY, signs and symptoms are not as clearly demarcated as in
other fields of medicine, they often overlap.
Because of this, disorders in psychiatry are often described as syndromes, a
constellation of signs and symptoms that together make up a
recognizable condition.
SIGNS are any indication of a medical condition that can be objectively
observed (i.e. by someone other than the patient).
Symptoms is merely any manifestation of a condition that is apparent to
the patient (i.e. something consciously affecting the patient).These are
subjective experiences.
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3. Normality
Normality has been defined as “patterns of behavior or personality traits
that are typical or that conform to some standard of proper and
acceptable ways of behaving and being.”
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines normality as a state of
complete physical, mental, and social well-being, but, again, this definition
is limited, because it defines physical and mental health simply as the
absence of physical or mental disease.
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4. Mental Disorder
According to the DSM-IV-TR, a mental disorder is conceptualized as a
behavioral or psychological syndrome or pattern that is associated with
distress or disability.
In addition, the syndrome or pattern must not be merely an expected and
culturally sanctioned response to a particular event, such as the death of a
loved one.
The DSM-IV-TR emphasizes that neither deviant behavior (e.g., political,
religious, or sexual) nor conflicts that are primarily between the individual
and society are mental disorders.
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5. Neurosis
In DSM a neurosis is defined as follows:
“A mental disorder in which the predominant disturbance is a symptom or
group of symptoms that is distressing to the the individual and is recognized
by him or her as unacceptable (ego-dystonic)
Reality testing is grossly intact.
Behavior does not actively violate gross social norms (though it may be quite
disabling).
The disturbance is relatively enduring or recurrent without treatment and is
not limited to a transitory reaction to stressor.”
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6. Psychosis
The traditional meaning of the term psychosis emphasized loss of reality
testing and impairment of mental functioning manifested by delusions,
hallucinations, confusion, and impaired memory.
In the most common psychiatric use of the term, psychotic became
synonymous with severe impairment of social and personal functioning
characterized by social withdrawal and an inability to perform the usual
household and occupational roles.
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7. SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS
ABREACTION
A process by which repressed material, particularly a painful experience or a
conflict, is brought back to consciousness; in this process, the person not only
recalls, but also relives the repressed material, which is accompanied by the
appropriate affective response.
ABULIA
Reduced impulse to act and to think, associated with indifference about
consequences of action. Occurs as a result of neurological deficit, depression, and
schizophrenia.
ACALCULIA
Loss of ability to do calculations not caused by anxiety or impairment in
concentration. Occurs with neurological deficit and learning disorder.
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8. ACENESTHESIA
Loss of sensation of physical existence.
ACROPHOBIA
Dread of high places.
ACTING OUT
Behavioral response to an unconscious drive or impulse that brings about temporary
partial relief of inner tension. Common in borderline states.
ACULALIA
Nonsense speech associated with marked impairment of comprehension. Occurs in
mania, schizophrenia, and neurological deficit.
ADIADOCHOKINESIA
Inability to perform rapid alternating movements. Occurs with neurological deficit and
cerebellar lesions
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9. ADYNAMIA
Weakness and fatigability, characteristic of neurasthenia and depression.
AEROPHAGIA
Excessive swallowing of air. Seen in anxiety disorder.
AGEUSIA
Lack or impairment of the sense of taste. Seen in depression and neurological deficiet.
AGITATION
Severe anxiety associated with motor restlessness.
AGNOSIA
Inability to understand the import or significance of sensory stimuli
The term has also been used to refer to the selective loss or disuse of knowledge of
specific objects because of emotional circumstances, as seen in certain schizophrenic,
anxious, and depressed patients. Occurs with neurological deficit.
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10. AGORAPHOBIA
Morbid fear of open places or leaving the familiar setting of the home. May be
present with or without panic attacks.
AGRAMMATISM
Speech in which the patient forms words into a sentence without regard for
grammatical rules. Seen in Alzheimer's and Pick's disease.
AGRAPHIA
Loss or impairment of a previously possessed ability to write.
AKATHISIA
Subjective feeling of motor restlessness manifested by a compelling need to be in
constant movement; may be seen as an extrapyramidal adverse effect of
antipsychotic medication.
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11. AKINESIA
Lack of physical movement, as in the extreme immobility of catatonic schizophrenia;
may also occur as an extrapyramidal effect of antipsychotic medication.
AKINETIC MUTISM
Absence of voluntary motor movement or speech in a patient who is apparently
alert (as evidenced by eye movements). Seen in psychotic depression and catatonic
states.
ALEXITHYMIA
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).
ALOGIA
Inability to speak because of a mental deficiency or an episode of dementia.
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12. AMBIVALENCE
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).
AMNESIA
Partial or total inability to recall past experiences; may be organic (amnestic
disorder) or emotional (dissociative amnesia) in origin.
AMNESTIC APHASIA
Disturbed capacity to name objects, even though they are known to the patient.
Also called anomic aphasia.
ANALGESIA
State in which one feels little or no pain. Can occur under hypnosis and in
dissociative disorder
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13. ANERGIA
Lack of energy.
ANHEDONIA
Loss of interest in and withdrawal from all regular and pleasurable activities. Often
associated with depression
ANOMIA
Inability to recall the names of objects.
ANOREXIA
Loss or decrease in appetite. In anorexia nervosa, appetite may be preserved, but
the patient refuses to eat.
ANOSOGNOSIA
Inability to recognize a physical deficit in oneself (e.g., patient denies paralyzed
limb).
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14. ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA
Loss of memory for events subsequent to the onset of the amnesia; common after
trauma, korsakoff syndrome
ANXIETY
Feeling of apprehension caused by anticipation of danger, which may be internal or
external.
APATHY
Dulled emotional tone associated with detachment or indifference; observed in
certain types of schizophrenia and depression.
APHASIA
Any disturbance in the comprehension or expression of language caused by a brain
lesion.
APHONIA
Loss of voice. Seen in conversion disorder.
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15. APPERCEPTION
Awareness of the meaning and significance of a particular sensory stimulus as
modified by one's own experiences, knowledge, thoughts, and emotions.
APRAXIA
Inability to perform a voluntary purposeful motor activity; cannot be explained by
paralysis or other motor or sensory impairment. In constructional apraxia, a patient
cannot draw two- or three-dimensional forms.
ASTASIA ABASIA
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.
ASTEREOGNOSIS
Inability to identify familiar objects by touch. Seen with neurological deficit
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16. AUTISTIC THINKING
Thinking in which the thoughts are largely narcissistic and egocentric, with emphasis
on subjectivity rather than objectivity, and without regard for reality; used
interchangeably with autism and dereism. Seen in schizophrenia and autistic disorder.
AUTOMATIC OBEDIENCE
Strict obedience of command without critical judgment. The person may respond to
an inner voice, as in schizophrenia, or to another person's command, as in hypnosis.
AUTOMATISM
Activity carried out without conscious knowledge.
AUTOSCOPY
Seeing oneself or a double as part of a brief hallucinatory experience.
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17. BELLE INDIFFERENCE
A person showing disinterest in his or her physical complaint. Occurs in conversion
disorder.
BEREAVEMENT
Feeling of grief or desolation, especially at the death or loss of a loved one.
BLACKOUT
Amnesia experienced by alcoholics about behavior during drinking bouts; usually
indicates reversible brain damage.
BRADYKINESIA
Slowness of motor activity, with a decrease in normal spontaneous movement.
BRADYLALIA
Abnormally slow speech. Common in depression.
BRADYLEXIA
Inability to read at normal speed.
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18. CATALEPSY
Condition in which persons maintain the body position into which they are
placed; observed in severe cases of catatonic schizophrenia.
CATAPLEXY
Temporary sudden loss of muscle tone, causing weakness and immobilization;
can be precipitated by a variety of emotional states and is often followed by
sleep. Commonly seen in narcolepsy.
CATATONIC POSTURING
Voluntary assumption of an inappropriate or bizarre posture, generally
maintained for long periods of time. May switch unexpectedly with catatonic
excitement.
CENESTHESIA
Change in the normal quality of feeling tone in a part of the body.
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19. CEREA FLEXIBILITAS
Condition of a person who can be moulded into a position that is then maintained;
when an examiner moves the person's limb, the limb feels as if it were made of
wax. Also called waxy flexibility. Seen in schizophrenia.
CHOREA
Movement disorder characterized by random and involuntary quick, jerky,
purposeless movement.
CLANG ASSOCIATION
Association or speech directed by the sound of a word rather than by its meaning;
words have no logical connection; punning and rhyming may dominate the verbal
behavior. Seen most frequently in schizophrenia or mania.
CLAUSTROPHOBIA
Abnormal fear of closed or confining spaces
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20. CLOUDING OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Any disturbance of consciousness in which the person is not fully awake, alert,
and oriented. Occurs in delirium, dementia, and cognitive disorder.
CLUTTERING
Disturbance of fluency involving an abnormally rapid rate and erratic rhythm of
speech that impedes intelligibility; the affected individual is usually unaware of
communicative impairment
COMPULSION
Pathological need to act on an impulse that, if resisted, produces anxiety;
repetitive behavior in response to an obsession or performed according to
certain rules, with no true end.
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21. CONCRETE THINKING
Thinking characterized by actual things, events, and immediate experience rather
than by abstractions; seen in young children, in those who have lost or never
developed the ability to generalize (as in certain cognitive mental disorders), and in
schizophrenic persons.
CONDENSATION
Mental process in which one symbol stands for a number of components.
CONFABULATION
Unconscious filling of gaps in memory by imagining experiences or events that have
no basis in fact, commonly seen in amnestic syndromes; should be differentiated
from lying.
CONSTRUCTIONAL APRAXIA
Inability to copy a drawing, such as a cube, clock, or pentagon, as a result of a brain
lesion
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22. CONVULSION
An involuntary, violent muscular contraction or spasm.
COPROLALIA
Involuntary use of vulgar or obscene language. Observed in some cases of
schizophrenia and in Tourette's syndrome.
COPROPHAGIA
Eating of filth or feces.
CRYPTOGRAPHIA
A private written language.
CRYPTOLALIA
A private spoken language.
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23. DÉJÀ ENTENDU
Illusion that what one is hearing one has heard previously.
DÉJÀ PENSÉ
Condition in which a thought never entertained before is incorrectly regarded as
a repetition of a previous thought.
DÉJÀ VU
Illusion of visual recognition in which a new situation is incorrectly regarded as a
repetition of a previous experience
DELIRIUM
Acute reversible mental disorder characterized by confusion and some
impairment of consciousness; generally associated with emotional lability,
hallucinations or illusions, and inappropriate, impulsive, irrational, or violent
behavior.
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24. DELIRIUM TREMENS
Acute and sometimes fatal reaction to withdrawal from alcohol, usually occurring 72
to 96 hours after the cessation of heavy drinking; distinctive characteristics are
marked autonomic hyperactivity usually accompanied by tremulousness,
hallucinations, illusions, and delusions.
DELUSION
False belief, based on incorrect inference about external reality, that is firmly held
despite objective and obvious contradictory proof or evidence and despite the fact
that other members of the culture do not share the belief.
DEPERSONALIZATION
Sensation of unreality concerning oneself, parts of oneself that occurs under
extreme stress or fatigue. Also seen in schizophrenia, depersonalization disorder,
and schizotypal personality disorder.
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25. DEREALIZATION
Sensation of changed reality or that one's surroundings have altered. Usually seen
in schizophrenia, panic attacks, and dissociative disorders.
DETACHMENT
Characterized by distant interpersonal relationships and lack of emotional
involvement.
DIPSOMANIA
Compulsion to drink alcoholic beverages.
DISTRACTIBILITY
Inability to focus one's attention; the patient does not respond to the task at hand
but attends to irrelevant phenomena in the environment.
DYSARTHRIA
Difficulty in articulation, the motor activity of shaping phonated sounds into
speech, not in word finding or in grammar.
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26. DYSGEUSIA
Impaired sense of taste.
DYSGRAPHIA
Difficulty in writing.
DYSKINESIA
Difficulty in performing movements. Seen in extrapyramidal disorders.
DYSLALIA
Faulty articulation caused by structural abnormalities of the articulatory organs or impaired
hearing.
DYSLEXIA
Specific learning disability syndrome involving an impairment of the previously acquired
ability to read; unrelated to the person's intelligence.
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27. DYSMEGALOPSIA
A distortion in which the size and shape of objects is misperceived.
DYSMETRIA
Impaired ability to gauge distance relative to movements. Seen in neurological
deficit.
DYSMNESIA
Impaired memory.
DYSPHAGIA
Difficulty in swallowing.
DYSPHASIA
Difficulty in comprehending oral language (reception dysphasia) or in trying to
express verbal language (expressive dysphasia).
DYSPHONIA
Difficulty or pain in speaking.
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28. DYSPHORIA
Feeling of unpleasantness or discomfort; a mood of general dissatisfaction and restlessness.
Occurs in depression and anxiety.
DYSTONIA
Extrapyramidal motor disturbance consisting of slow, sustained contractions of the axial or
appendicular musculature; one movement often predominates, leading to relatively
sustained postural deviations; acute dystonic reactions (facial grimacing and torticollis) are
occasionally seen with the initiation of antipsychotic drug therapy.
ECHOLALIA
Psychopathological repeating of words or phrases of one person by another; tends to be
repetitive and persistent. Seen in certain kinds of schizophrenia, particularly the catatonic
types
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29. EGOMANIA
Morbid self-preoccupation or self-centeredness
EMOTION
Complex feeling state with psychic, somatic, and behavioral components
ENCOPRESIS
Involuntary passage of feces, usually occurring at night or during sleep.
ENURESIS
Incontinence of urine during sleep.
ERYTHROPHOBIA
Abnormal fear of blushing.
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30. EXPRESSIVE APHASIA
Disturbance of speech in which understanding remains, but ability to speak is
grossly impaired; halting, laborious, and inaccurate speech (also known as Broca's,
nonfluent, and motor aphasias).
EXPRESSIVE DYSPHASIA
Difficulty in expressing verbal language; the ability to understand language is intact.
FATIGUE
A feeling of weariness, sleepiness, or irritability after a period of mental or bodily
activity. Seen in depression, anxiety, neurasthenia, and somatoform disorders.
FEAR
Unpleasurable emotional state consisting of psychophysiological changes in
response to a realistic threat or danger. Compare with anxiety.
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31. FLOCCILLATION
Aimless plucking or picking, usually at bedclothes or clothing, commonly seen in
dementia and delirium.
FLUENT APHASIA
Aphasia characterized by inability to understand the spoken word; fluent but
incoherent speech is present. Also called Wernicke's, sensory and receptive
aphasias.
FOLIE À DEUX
Mental illness shared by two persons, usually involving a common delusional
system.
FORMICATION
Tactile hallucination involving the sensation that tiny insects are crawling over the
skin. Seen in cocaine addiction and delirium tremens.
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32. GRIEF
Alteration in mood and affect consisting of sadness appropriate to a real loss;
normally, it is self limited. See also depression and mourning.
GUILT
Emotional state associated with self-reproach and the need for punishment. In
psychoanalysis, refers to a feeling that stems from a conflict between the ego and
the superego (conscience).
HALLUCINATION
False sensory perception occurring in the absence of any relevant external
stimulation of the sensory modality involved.
HALLUCINOSIS
State in which a person experiences hallucinations without any impairment of
consciousness
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33. HYPERACTIVITY
Increased muscular activity.
HYPERACUSIS
Extreme sensitivity to sounds.
HYPERALGESIA
Excessive sensitivity to pain. Seen in somatoform disorder.
HYPERESTHESIA
Increased sensitivity to tactile stimulation.
HYPERMNESIA
Exaggerated degree of retention and recall. It can be elicited by hypnosis and may
be seen in certain prodigies; also may be a feature of OCD, some cases of
schizophrenia, and manic episodes of bipolar I disorder.
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34. HYPERPHAGIA
Increase in appetite and intake of food.
HYPERSOMNIA
Excessive time spent asleep. May be associated with underlying medical or psychiatric
disorder or narcolepsy, may be part of the Kleine-Levin syndrome, or may be primary.
HYPERVENTILATION
Excessive breathing, generally associated with anxiety, which can reduce blood carbon
dioxide concentration and can produce lightheaded-ness, palpitations, numbness, tingling
periorally and in the extremities, and, occasionally, syncope.
HYPERVIGILANCE
Excessive attention to and focus on all internal and external stimuli; usually seen in
delusional or paranoid states
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35. HYPNAGOGIC HALLUCINATION
Hallucination occurring while falling asleep, not ordinarily considered
pathological.
HYPNOPOMPIC HALLUCINATION
Hallucination occurring while awakening from sleep, not ordinarily considered
pathological.
HYPNOSIS
Artificially induced alteration of consciousness characterized by increased
suggestibility and receptivity to direction.
HYPOACTIVITY
Decreased motor and cognitive activity, as in psychomotor retardation; visible
slowing of thought, speech, and movements. Also called hypokinesis.
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36. INSOMNIA
Difficulty in falling asleep or difficulty in staying asleep. It can be related to a mental disorder,
can be related to a physical disorder or an adverse effect of medication, or can be primary
IRRELEVANT ANSWER
Answer that is not responsive to the question.
IRRITABILITY
Abnormal or excessive excitability, with easily triggered anger, annoyance, or impatience.
IRRITABLE MOOD
State in which one is easily annoyed and provoked to anger.
JAMAIS VU
Paramnestic phenomenon characterized by a false feeling of unfamiliarity with a real
situation that one has previously experienced.
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37. LETHOLOGICA
Momentary forgetting of a name or proper noun.
LILLIPUTIAN HALLUCINATION
Visual sensation that persons or objects are reduced in size; more properly regarded as
an illusion.
MACROPSIA
False perception that objects are larger than they really are.
MAGICAL THINKING
A form of dereistic thought; thinking similar to that of the preoperational phase in
children (Jean Piaget), in which thoughts, words, or actions assume power (e.g., to cause
or to prevent events).
MALINGERING
Feigning disease to achieve a specific goal, for example, to avoid an unpleasant
responsibility.
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38. MANIPULATION
Maneuvering by patients to get their own way, characteristic of antisocial personalities.
MANNERISM
Ingrained, habitual involuntary movement.
METONYMY
Speech disturbance common in schizophrenia in which the affected person uses a word
or phrase that is related to the proper one but is not the one ordinarily used
MOOD SWINGS
Oscillation of a person's emotional feeling tone between periods of elation and periods
of depression.
MOTOR APHASIA
Aphasia in which understanding is intact, but the ability to speak is lost
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39. MUSCLE RIGIDITY
State in which the muscles remain immovable.
MUTISM
Organic or functional absence of the speech.
NEGATIVISM
Verbal or nonverbal opposition or resistance to outside suggestions and advice;
commonly seen in catatonic schizophrenia in which the patient resists any effort
to be moved or does the opposite of what is asked.
NEOLOGISM
New word or phrase whose derivation cannot be understood; often seen in
schizophrenia
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40. NOEISIS
Revelation in which immense illumination occurs in association with a sense that one has
been chosen to lead and command. Can occur in manic or dissociative states.
NOMINAL APHASIA
Aphasia characterized by difficulty in giving the correct name of an object.
NYMPHOMANIA
Abnormal, excessive, insatiable desire in a woman for sexual intercourse.
OVERACTIVITY
Abnormality in motor behavior that can manifest itself as psychomotor agitation,
hyperactivity (hyperkinesis), tics, sleepwalking, or compulsions.
OVERVALUED IDEA
False or unreasonable belief or idea that is sustained beyond the bounds of reason. It is
held with less intensity or duration than a delusion but is usually associated with mental
illness.
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41. PANPHOBIA
Overwhelming fear of everything.
PARAPRAXIS
Faulty act, such as a slip of the tongue or the misplacement of an article. Freud
ascribed parapraxis to unconscious motives.
PARESTHESIA
Abnormal spontaneous tactile sensation, such as a burning, tingling, or pins-and-
needles sensation.
PERSEVERATION
Pathological repetition of the same response to different stimuli, as in a repetition
of the same verbal response to different questions.
PHOBIA
Persistent, pathological, unrealistic, intense fear of an object or situation; the phobic
person may realize that the fear is irrational but, nonetheless, cannot dispel it.
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42. PICA
Craving and eating of non-food substances, such as paint and clay.
POLYPHAGIA
Pathological overeating.
POSTURING
Strange, fixed, and bizarre bodily positions held by a patient for an extended time
PREOCCUPATION OF THOUGHT
Centering of thought content on a particular idea, associated with a strong affective
tone, such as a paranoid trend or a suicidal or homicidal preoccupation.
PRESSURED SPEECH
Increase in the amount of spontaneous speech; rapid, loud, accelerated speech, as
occurs in mania, schizophrenia, and cognitive disorders
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43. PROSOPAGNOSIA
Inability to recognize familiar faces that is not due to impaired visual acuity or level
of consciousness.
PSEUDOCYESIS
Rare condition in which a non-pregnant patient has the signs and symptoms of
pregnancy, such as abdominal distention, breast enlargement, pigmentation,
cessation of menses, and morning sickness.
PSEUDODEMENTIA
(1) Dementia like disorder that can be reversed by appropriate treatment and is not
caused by organic brain disease.
(2) Condition in which patients show exaggerated indifference to their surroundings
in the absence of a mental disorder; also occurs in depression and factitious
disorders.
PSYCHOMOTOR AGITATION
Physical and mental overactivity that is usually nonproductive and is associated with
a feeling of inner turmoil, as seen in agitated depression
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44. RETROGRADE AMNESIA
Loss of memory for events preceding the onset of the amnesia.
RUMINATION
Constant preoccupation with thinking about a single idea or theme, as in OCD.
SATYRIASIS
Morbid, insatiable sexual need or desire in a man.
SHAME
Failure to live up to self-expectations; often associated with fantasy of how person
will be seen by others.
SOMATOPAGNOSIA
Inability to recognize a part of one's body as one's own (also called ignorance of the
body and autotopagnosia).
SOMNOLENCE
Pathological sleepiness or drowsiness from which one can be aroused to a normal
state of consciousness.
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45. STUTTERING
Frequent repetition or prolongation of a sound or syllable, leading to markedly
impaired speech fluency
SUICIDAL IDEATION
Thoughts or act of taking one's own life.
TENSION
Physiological or psychic arousal, uneasiness, or pressure toward action; an
unpleasurable alteration in mental or physical state that seeks relief through
action.
TWILIGHT STATE
Disturbed consciousness with hallucinations.
UNIO MYSTICA
Feeling of mystic unity with an infinite power.
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46. WAXY FLEXIBILITY
Condition in which a person maintains the body position into which they are placed.
WORD APPROXIMATION
Use of conventional words in an unconventional or inappropriate way ( (e.g., handshoes for
gloves and time measure for clock); distinguished from a neologism, which is a new word
whose derivation cannot be understood.
WORD SALAD
Incoherent, essentially incomprehensible, mixture of words and phrases commonly seen in
far-advanced cases of schizophrenia.
XENOPHOBIA
Abnormal fear of strangers.
ZOOPHOBIA
Abnormal fear of animals.
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47. WILLIAM OSLER (1898–1919) said of medicine in general
“It is learned only by experience; it is not an inheritance; it
cannot be revealed. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to
feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone can
you become expert.”
So it is with psychiatry. One sees the posture of
depression, hears the neologisms in schizophrenia, smells
the odour of alcoholism, and feels the violent patient's
anger.
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