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blunted affect
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significant reduction in intensity of emotional expression
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flat affect
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absence or near absence of any signs of affective expression
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inappropriate affect
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discordance between affective expression and the content of speech or ideation
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labile affect
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abnormal variability in affect wiht repeated, rapid, abrupt shifts in affective expression
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restricted/constructed affect
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mild reduction in range and intensity of emotional expression
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affect vs. mood
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affect refers to fluctuating changes in emotional weather, while mood refers to more pervasive and sustained emotional climate
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agonist medication
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chemical extrinsic to endogenously produced substances that acts on a receptor and is capable of producing maximal effect that can be produced by stimulating that receptor
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partial agonist
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capable only of producing a less than the maximal effect even when given in concetration sufficient to bind with all available receptors
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antagonist
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chemical extrinsic to endogenously produced substances that occupies a receptor, produces no physiologic effects, and prevents endo and exgenous chemicals from producing effect on receptor
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alogia
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impoverishment in thinking that is inferred from observing speech and language behavior. (poverty of speech or content)
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anterograde amnesia
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loss of memory of events that occur after the onset of the etiological condition or agent
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retrograde amnesia
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loss of memory of events tat occurred before onset of etiological condition or agent
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aphasia
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impairment in understanding or transmission of ideas by langage in any of its forms that is due to injury or disease
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aphonia
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inability to produce speech sounds that require the use of the larynx that is not due to a lesion in the cns
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ataxia
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partial or complete losss of coordination of voluntary muscular movement
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avolition
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inability to initiate and persist in goal directed activites
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catalepsy
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waxy flexibility - rigid maintenance of a body position over and extended period of time
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cataplexy
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episodes of sudden bilateral loss of muscle tone resulting in the individual collapsing, often in association with intense emotions such as laughter, anger, fear, or surprise
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conversion symptom
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loss of/alteration in voluntary motor or sensory function suggesting a neurological or general medical condition
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bizarre delusion
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delusion involving a phenomenon that the person's culture would regard as totally implausible
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delusional jealousy
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delusion that one's sexual partner is unfaithful
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erotomanic
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delusion that another person, usually of higher status, is in love with the individual
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grandiose delusion
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delusion of inflated worth, power, knowledge, identity, or special relationship to a deity or famous person
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delusion of reference
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delusion whose theme is that events, objects, or other persons in one's immediate environment have a particular and unusual significance
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persecutory delusion
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central theme is that one or someone close to one is being attacked, harassed, cheated, persecuted, or conspired against
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somatic delusion
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delusion whose main content pertains to the appearance or functioning of one's body
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thought broadcasting
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the delusion that one's thoughts are being broadcast out loud so that they can be perceived by others
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thought insertion delusion
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the delusion that certain of one's thoughts are not one's own, but rather are inserted into one's mind
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depersonalization
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an alteration in the perception or experience of the self so that one feels detached from, and as if one is an outside observer of, one's mental processes or body
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derailment
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loosening of associations, pattern of speech in which one's ideas slip off one track onto another that is completely unrelated - disturbance occurs between clauses
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derealization
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alteration in the perception or experience of the external world so that it seems strange or unreal
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disorientation
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confusion about the time of day, date, season, identity, location
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dissociation
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disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness memory, id, perception of the environment, may be gradual, transient, or chronic
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distractibility
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inability to maintain attention, that is, the shifting from one area or topic to another with minimal provocation, or attention being drawn to frequently to unimportant or irrelevant external stimuli
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dysarthria
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imperfect articulation of speech due to disturbances of muscular control
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dyskinesia
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distortion o voluntary movements with involuntary muscular activity
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