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a state of unease or mental discomfort, e.g. patient may appear uneasy or sad
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dysphoric
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normal tranquil mood
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euthymic
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sudden and frequent changes in expressed emotion
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labile
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physician observes patient lacking an intense emotional response to distressing topics
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blunt
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physician observes patient has no emotional response to distressing topic
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flat
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impaired speech production due to weakness of musculature
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dysarthric
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repetitions in speech
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dysfluent
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unusual changes in pitch, intonation, stresses, phrasing and rhythm in speech
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dysprosodic
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soft whispering voice
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hypophonic
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speech containing grammatical errors
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paragrammatic
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speech that contains word retrieval errors in general
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paraphasic
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incorrectly retrieved word is similar in meaning: "boat" instead of a "beach"
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semantic paraphasia
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incorrectly retrieved word is similar in sound to actual word "pheletone" instead of "telephone"
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phonemic paraphasia
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incorrectly retrieved word is a new word not similar in sound or meaning "drupong" for clock
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neologistic paraphasia
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abundant, accelerated speech "___ speech"
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pressured
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inappropriate formal, legal speech
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stilted
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omission of prepositions and modifiers when speaking "bad sleep month" instead of "i had bad sleeping habits this month"
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telegraphic
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thought disturbance in which indirect, winding speech which patient gives unnecessary and often irrelevant details before arriving at the point: answers the question, keeps the main point but takes a while to get their with unnecessary details
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circumstantial
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thought disturbance marked by poor topic adherence: provides answer to a question that veers off from the topic of the question and does not return to the original topic, but still has a logical thread in the response
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tangential
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rapid jumping from topic to topic without completing each train of thought
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flight of ideas
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speech that has no logical connection between ideas and words. the words make sentences, but the sentences dont make sense
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derailed
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abrupt halting of thoughts
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blocked
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use of sound patterns (like rhyming) rather than meaningful words, impaired intelligibility of speech
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clanging
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words that are created by the patient and does not have any meaning to others ("klipno" for "boots")
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neologistic
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repetitive thought process where no matter the topic or question, patient goes back to the same topic to talk about
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perseverative
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thought content: a belief that somebody holds with complete certainty but that is at odds with reality: "i am the queen of england"
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delusional
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thought content: preoccupation with distressing memories, thoughts, or worries, different from perseverative thinking in that the thought is always distressing and hopes to gain insight
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ruminative
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thought content: a persistently recurring thought, urge, or image that is experienced as intrusive or unwanted and results in anxiety
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obsessional
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