Lack of feeling associated with an ordinarily emotionally charged subject; in psychoanalysis, it denotes the patient's detaching or transferring of emotion from thoughts and ideas. Occurs in anxiety, dissociative, schizophrenic, and bipolar disorders.

A pathological repetition of the same response to different stimuli, as in a repetition of the same verbal repose to different questions. Also persistent repetition of specific words or concepts in the process of speaking. Seen in cognitive disorders, schizophrenia, and other mental illness.

The inability to understand the import or significance of sensory stimuli; cannot be explained by a defect in sensory pathways or cerebral lesion; 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.

Excessive emotional responsiveness characterized by unstable and rapidly changing emotions.

Thinking characterized by the ability to grasp the essentials of the whole, to break a whole into it's parts, and to discern common properties. To think symbolically.

Forceful, goal directed action that may be verbal or physical; motor counterpart of the affect of rage, anger, or hostility. Seen in neurological deficit, temporal lobe disorder, impulse control disorders, mania and schizophrenia.

Misinterpretations of incidents and events in the outside world as having direct personal reference to oneself; occasionally observed in normal persons, but frequently seen in paranoid patients. If present with significant frequency or intensity or if organized and systematized, they constitute as delusions of reference.

Warning sensations such as automatisms, fullness in the stomach, blushing, and change in respiration, cognitive sensations, and mood states usually experienced before a seizure. A sensory prodrome that proceeds a classic migraine headache.

Normal range of mood, implying absence of depressed or elevated mood.

Thinking in which the thoughts are largely narcissistic and egocentric, with emphasis on subjectivity rather than objectivity, and without regard for reality; used interchangeable with autism . Seen in Schizophrenia and autistic disorder.

Loss of interest in and withdrawal from all regular pleasurable activities. Often associated with depression.

Incoherent , essentially incomprehensible, mixture of words and phrases commonly seen in far-advanced cases of schizophrenia.

Inability to identify familiar objects by touch. Seen with neurological deficit and neurological amnesia.

Expressions of feelings without restraint, frequently with an overestimation of their significance or importance. Seen in mania and grandiose delusional disorder.

False beliefs that are patently absurd or fantastic (e.g., invaders from space have implanted electrodes in a persons brain). Common in schizophrenia. Nonbizarre delusions, content is usually within range of possibility.

Feeling of apprehension caused by anticipation of danger, which may be internal or external.

Delusion that thoughts are being implanted in one's mind by other people or forces.

Sensation of changed reality or that ones surroundings have altered. Usually seen in Schizophrenia, panic attacks and dissociative disorders.

Dulled emotional tone associated with detachment or indifference; observed in certain types of schizophrenia and depression.

Abrupt interruption in train of thinkingbefore a thought or idea is finished; after a brief pause, the person indicates no recall of what was being said or what was going to be said. Common in schizophrenia or sever anxiety.( Also known as thought deprivation or increased thought latency)

A mental state characterized by feelings of sadness, loneliness, despair, low self-esteem, and self reproach; accompanying signs include psychomotor retardation or, at times, agitation, withdrawal from interpersonal contact, and vegetative symptoms, such as insomnia and anorexia. The term refers to a mood that is characterized or a mood disorder.

Feeling that one's own thoughts are being broadcast or projected into the environment.

Impaired sense of taste.

In psychiatry the term intrapsychic __________ refers to lack of coordination between feelings and thoughts, seen in schizophrenia and severe OCD. In neurology ____________ refers to loss of muscle coordination.

Thinking characterized by actual things, events, and immediate experiences 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.