Hallucinations
Auditory
hallucinations are the most common, followed by visual hallucinations
Delusions
Usually
due to distorted reasoning or misinterpretations
Grossly
disorganized behaviors
Distinguished
from delusional behaviors by their apparent purposelessness
Disorganized
speech/thinking
(loosening
of associations)
Effective
communication is impaired
Catatonic
behaviors
Includes
aimless excess motor activity, in addition to motionlessness
Depersonalization
Relates
to person's sense of self
Derealization
Relates
to person's sense of their
surroundings
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Apathy
(affective flattening)
Relative
to the individual patient's normal range/intensity of emotional
expression
Alogia
(poverty of speech)
Thought
to reflect a slowed or blocked
thinking process
Avolition
(lack of drive or initiative)
Relative
to the individual patient's normal
ability to initiate and persist in goal-directed behavior
Anhedonia
(lack of pleasure)
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Impaired
attention/vigilance
(for executive functioning)
Impaired
memory
Working
memory deficit could explain impaired attention and positive
symptom of
disorganized speech/thinking
Verbal
memory
Impaired
verbal fluency
Inability
to produce spontaneous speech
Impaired
abstract thinking
Impaired
visual processing
Neologisms
(meaningless words)
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