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Glossary
DSV IV TR
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Affect | A pattern of observable behaviors that is the expression ofa subjectively experienced feeling state (emotion). Common examples of affect are sadness, elation, and anger. |
| Disturbances in affect include | blunted, flat, inappropriate, labile, restricted or constricted |
| Blunted | significant reduction in the intensity of emotional expression. |
| Flat | Absence or near absence of any signs of affective expression. |
| Inappropriate | Discordance between affective expression and the content of speech or ideation. |
| Labile | Abnormal variability in affect with repeated, rapid, and abrupt shifts in affective expression. |
| Restricted or constricted | Mild reduction in the range and intensity of emotional expression. |
| Agitation (psychomotor agitation) | Excessive motor activity associated with a feeling of inner tension. Activity is nonproductive, repetitious (pacing, fidgeting, wringing of the hands, pulling clothers, and inability to sit still) |
| Alogia | An impoverishment in thinking that is inferred from observing speeach and language behavior. |
| Amnesia-anterograde | Loss of memory of events that occur afte the onset of the etiological condition or agent. |
| Amnesia-retrograde | Loss of memory of events that occurred before the onset of the etiological condition or agent. |
| Antagonist medication | Chemical entity extrinsic to endogenously produced substances that occupies a receptor, produces no physiologic effects, and prevents endogenous and exogenous chemicals from producing an effect on that receptor. |
| Aphasia | An impairment in the understanding of transmission of ideas by language in any of its forms-reading, writing, or speaking-that is due to injury or disease of the brain centers involved in language. |
| Aphonia | An inability to produce speech sounds tht require the use of the larynx that is not due to a lesion in the central nervous system. |
| Ataxia | Partial or complete loss of coordination of voluntary muscular movement. |
| Avolition | An inability to initiate and persist in goal-directed activities. |
| Catalepsy | Waxy flexibility-rigid maintenance of a body position over an extended period of time. |
| Cataplexy | 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. |
| Catatonic behavior | Marked motor abnormalities including motoric immobility, excessive motor activity, extreme negativism, mutism, posturing or sterotyped movements, and echolalia or echopraxia. |
| Conversion symptom | A loss of or alteration in voluntary motor or sensory functioning suggesting a neurological or general medical condition. SxS is not intentionally produced or feigned and is not culturally sanction. |
| Defense mechanism | automatic psychological process tht protects the individual against anxiety and from awareness of internal or external stressors. or dangers. |
| Delusion | False belief based on incorrect inference about external reality, firmly sustained despite what everyone else believes & despite what constitutes incontrovertible, obvious proof or evidence of the contrary. Belief isn't accepted by others in culture. |
| Bizarre | A delusion that involves a phenomenon that the person's culture would regard as totally implausible. |
| Delusional jealousy | The delusion tht one's sexual partner is unfaithful. |
| Erotomanic | A delusion that another person, usually of higher status, is in love with the individual. |
| Grandiose | A delusion of inflated worth, power, knowledge, identity, or special relationship to a deity or famous person. |
| Mood-congruent | Delusions/hallucin. whose contents is entirely consistent with the typical themes of a depressed or manic mood. If the mood is depressed, the content of delu./hallucin. would involve themes of guilt, disease, death, nihilism, deserved punishment, |
| Mood-incongruent | Delusions/hallucinations whose content is not consistent with the typical themes of a depressed or manic mood. ex: include persecutory delusions,thought insertion,...whose content has no apparent relationship to any of the themes listed above. |
| Of reference | A delusion whose themes is that events, objects, or other persons in one's immediate environment have a particular and unusual significance. Usually negative/pejorative nature, also may be grandiose. |
| Idea of reference | In which the false belief is not as firmly held nor as fully organized into a true belief. |
| Persecutory | A delusion in which the central theme is that one (or someone to whom one is close) is being attacked, harassed, cheated, persecuted, or conspired against. |
| Somatic | A delusion whose main content pertains to the appearance or functioning of one's body. |
| Thought Broadcasting | The delusion that one's thoughts are being broadcast out loud so that they can be perceived by others. |
| Thought Insertion | 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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