Side Effects from Antipsychotic Disorders associated with reading, speech or writing. Types of phobia's and types of motivations. Terms associated with Memory. Vocabulary referring to defense mechanisms.
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What is AKATHISIA?
A subjective feeling of motor restlessness manifested by a compelling need to be in constant movement; may be seen as extrapyramidal adverse effect of antipsychotic medication. May be mistaken for psychotic agitation.
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What is AGRAPHIA?
Loss or impairment of a previously ability to write.
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What is ACROPHOBIA?
Dread of high places.
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What is AMNESIA?
Partial or total ability to recall past experiences; may be organic (amnestic disorder) or emotional (dissociative amnesia) in origin.
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What is DENIAL?
Defense mechanism in which the existence of unpleasant realities is disavowed; refers to keeping out of conscious awareness any aspects of external reality that, if acknowledged, would produced anxiety.
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What is AKINESIA?
A lack of physical movement, as in the extreme immobility of catatonic schizophrenia; may also occur as an extrapyramidal effect of antipsychotic medication.
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What is ALEXIA?
Loss of a previously processes reading facility; not explained by defective visual acuity.
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What is AGORAPHOBIA?
Morbid fear of open places or leaving the familiar settings of the home. May be present with or without panic attacks.
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What is 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.
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What is DETACHMENT?
Characterized by distant interpersonal relationships and lack of emotional involvement.
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What is BRUXISM?
Grinding or gnashing of the teeth, typically occurring during sleep.
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What is DYSGRAPHIA?
Difficulty in writing.
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What is CLAUSTROPHOBIA?
Abnormal fear of closed or confining spaces.
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What is DEMENTIA?
Mental disorder characterized by general impairment in intellectual functioning without clouding of consciousness; characterized by failing memory, difficulty with calculations, distractibility, alterations in mood and affect, impaired judgment and abstraction, reduced facility with language, and disturbance of orientation. Although irreversible because underlying progressive degenerative brain disease, dementia may be reversible if the cause can be treated. Also know as major neurocognitive disorder in the DSM V.
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What is DEVALUATION?
Defense mechanism in which a person attributes excessively negative qualities to self or others. Seen in depression and paranoid personality disorder.
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What is a FLAT AFFECT?
Absence or near absence of any sign of affective expression. Can be caused by antipsychotic medications.
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What is DYSLEXIA?
Specific learning ability syndrome involving an impairment of the previously acquired ability to read; unrelated to the person's intelligence.
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What is ANERGIA?
Lack of energy.
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What is FAGUE?
Dissociative disorder characterized by a period of complete amnesia, during which a person actually flees from an immediate life situation and begins a different life pattern; apart from the amnesia, mental facilities and skills are usually impaired.
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What is DISSOCIATION?
Unconscious defense mechanism involving the segregation of any grouip of mental or behavioral processes from the rest o the person's psychic activity; may entail the separation of an idea from it's accompanying emotional tome, as seen in dissociative and conversion disorders.
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What is 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.
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What is APHASIA?
Any disturbance in the comprehension or expression of language caused by a brain lesion.
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What is COMPULSION?
Pathological need to act on an impulse that, if resisted, produces anxiety; repetitive behavior in response to an obsession or preformed according to certain rules, with no true end in itself other than to prevent something from occurring in the future.
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What is REACTION FORMATION?
Unconscious defense mechanism in which a person develops a socialized attitude or interest that is the direct antithesis of some infantile wish or impulse that is harbored consciously or unconsciously. One of the earliest and most unstable defense mechanisms, closely related to repression; both are defenses against impulses or urges that are acceptable to the ego.






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