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| inability to produce and/or comprehend language |
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| - inability to carry out learned purposeful movements |
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| Insoluble shards of Beta-amyloid that stick to dead or dying neurons |
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| Slowness of all voluntary movement and speech |
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| The use of pantomime, nonverbal communication, or ward substitution to avoid revealing an inability to say or remember a word. |
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| Loss of inhibition, or the culturla and sense of self restraint |
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| Imperfect articulation of speech caused by disturbances of muscular control resulting from central or peripheral nervous system damage |
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| Inability to write a sentence |
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| difficulty retrieving the correct words, names, or numbers from memory |
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| the automatic and meaningless repetition of another's words or phrases. |
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| a broad band of skills that allow an individual to engage in independent, self-directed behavior |
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| involuntary movement, changes in muscle tone, and abnormal posture |
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| Disorders of perception. Atypical auditory, visual, and/or olfactory sensory perceptions |
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| distortion of the senses, revealing how the brain normally organizes and interprets sensory stimulation. Misperception of reality |
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| neurological disorder caused by the lack of thiamine (vitamin B1) in the brain |
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| Rapidly shifting or changing emotions |
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| LBD refers to both Parkinson’s disease dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies. |
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| spasm of a muscle or group of muscles |
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| A language disorder in which a person hears and comprehends words but is unable to speak correctly |
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| involuntary resisitance to passive movement of the extremities |
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| symptomatic of the onset of an attack or a disease |
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| syndrome seen in older people in which they exhibit symptoms consistent with dementia but the cause is actually depression |
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| A condition in which a person with cognitive impairment becomes confused or disoriented at the end of the day |
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| shifting from one thought to another and off central point |
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| Topographical Orientation |
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| orientation of the self within the environment |
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| touching, grsping, or manipulating anything that is within sight |
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| Wernicke’s Encephalopathy |
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| syndrome characterised by ataxia, ophthalmoplegia, confusion, and impairment of short-term memory. |
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| absence of speech because of mental illness |
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| unable to experience pleasure |
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| lack of initiative or motivation |
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| literal interpretation of words without understanding abstract meanings. |
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| Atypical and well-organized beliefs not explained by evidence or culture |
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| Extrapyramidal Side Effects (EPS)- |
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| involuntary movement, changes in muscle tone, and abnormal posture |
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| no or nearly no emotional expression |
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| accelerated speech with reapid chagnes in subject. associations are understandable unlike the lack of connections that are associates with looseness or association |
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| individuals believe that others are talking about or referring to them. |
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| thought disorder in which series of ideas are presented with loosely apparent or completely inapparent logical connections |
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| decreases or deficits in ypical behaviors, seen in mental illness |
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| rubbing two fingers together and usually shaking hand |
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| observable behaviors of psychosis such as hallucinations and delusions that should not be there. Not a typical |
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| false beliefs about what is taking place or who one is (delusions) and seeing or hearing things that aren't there. Afflicted with any major mental disorder. |
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| involuntary movements of the tongue, lips, face, trunk, and extremities that occur in patients treated with long-term dopaminergic antagonist medications. A condition that is occasionally experienced as a side-effect of antipsychotic drugs |
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| describe incomprehensible language, either speech or writing, that is presumed to reflect thinking. |
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| psychomotor symptom of catatonic schizophrenia which leads to a decreased response to stimuli and a tendency to remain in an immobile position |
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| reduced ability or inability to exprience pleasure |
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| Characterized by one or more Manic or Mixed episodes usually accompanied by Major Depressive Episodes |
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| Disorder-Characterized by one or more Major Depressive Episodes accompaied by at least one Hypomanic Episode |
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| Extreme psychomotor agitation or retardation |
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| At least 2 yrs of numerous periods of hypomanic symptoms that do not meet criteria for a Manic Episode and numerous episodes of depressive symptome that Do not meet criteria for a Major Depressive Episode Highs are not that high and lows are not that low. |
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| refers to the syndrome that consists only of major depressive episodes without manic episodes. |
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| four or more episodes of some type of mood disturbance within the past year; episodes meet criteria for either mania, hypomania, mixed or depressed episodes as identified in DSM IV-TR |
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| movements, reactions, and speech that are slowed |
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| Repetitive and nonproductive motor activity. May present as pacing or fidgeting. |
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| anhedonia, early morning depression worse in the morning, psychomotor agitation or retardation, wight loss and feeling of guilt |
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| An episode of manic symptoms that are not severe enough to make the criteria for mania listed in DSM |
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| symptom of mania or hypomania in bipolar disorder. used to describe the larger-than-life feelings of superiority often experienced by those in a manic episode. |
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| symptom of mania or hypomania in bipolar disorder. used to describe the larger-than-life feelings of superiority often experienced by those in a manic episode. |
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| Disorder-At least 2 years of depressed mood plus additional depressive symptoms that do not meet the criteria for Major Depressive Episode |
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| is progressive improvement throughout the day; waking up is said to be worst, especially when you wake up in the early hours of the morning (so-called "late insomnia"). |
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