2. DEVIATION FROM NORMAL BEHAVIOUR
Disturbance of Consciousness
Disorders of Motor Activities
Disorders of Perception
Disorders of Thought
Disorders of Affect
Disorders of Memory & Intelligence
Disorders of Orientation
3. *Consciousness has been defined as the distinguishing feature of
mental life. It is synonymous with the quality of being aware and
alert to the stimuli.
DISTURBANCES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Confusion
Clouding of Consciousness
Stupor
Delirium
Dream State
4. *Motor activity is a summation of other impulses also like desires
and emotions in human beings. These responses are synchronized
and any abnormality in synchronization will cause abnormal motor
activity.
DISORDERS OF MOTOR ACTIVITY
Increased activity Repetitious Behavior
Dysactivity Negativism
Decreased activity Compulsion Echolalia
Automatic Behavior
Violence Echopraxia
Suicide
5. *Perception refers to the way the world looks, feels, sounds, tastes
and smell. In other words perception can be defined as whatever
is experienced by the person through various senses.
DISORDERS OF PERCEPTION
Illusion Auditory
Visual
Olfactory
Gustatory
Tactile
Hallucination Kinesthetic
6. *Normal thought process involves imagination, co-ordination and
inferring resulting in their formation of thought. As the ideas are
connected with other ideas there is progression of thought. The
subject, importance, value or feeling tone attached to an idea is
the content of thought.
DISORDERS OF THOUGHT
Formation Level
Progression Level (Flight of Ideas, Thought Retardation,
Perseveration, Circumstantiality,
Tangentiality, Incoherence & Blocking)
Content Level (Delusion, Hypochondrias, Obsession & Phobia)
7. *Affect and mood are used to explain the emotional condition of
an individual. Affect can be called as the individual’s inner feeling
at a given moment.
DISORDERS OF AFFECT
Pleasurable Affect (Euphoria, Elation, Exhaltation)
Un-Pleasurable Affect (Depression, Grief/Mourning)
Other Affect (Anxiety, Apathy, Inappropriate Affect,
Ambivalence, Depersonalization, Mood Swing)
8. *Memory is commonly understood as the power to remember.
DISORDERS OF MEMORY
Hypermnesia Amnesia Paramnesia
