April 26, 2013
Nursing Path
- Positive symptoms: refers to presence of
delusions, disordered thoughts and speech, and tactile, auditory,
visual, olfactory and gustatory hallucinations
- Negative symptoms : are deficits of normal
emotional responses or of other thought processes, and respond poorly
to medication which includes flat or blunted affect and emotion,
poverty of speech (alogia), inability to experience pleasure
(anhedonia), lack of desire to form relationships (asociality), and
lack of motivation (avolition).
- Biological symptoms (somatic symptoms./melancholic symptoms.): refers
to changes in sleep, appetite, libido, activity, diurnal changes in
mood, anhedonia, early morning awakening, and psychomotor agitation or
retardation.
- Psychotic symptoms: presence of hallucinations and delusions
- First Rank Symptoms of Schizophrenia (Kurt Schneider)
- Audible thoughts (thought echo)
- Voices heard arguing
- Voices heard commenting on one's actions
- Somatic/thought passivity experiences (delusions of control)
- Thought withdrawal
- Thought insertion - Thoughts are ascribed to other people who intrude their thoughts upon the patient
- Thought broadcasting (also called thought diffusion)
- Delusional perception
- Motor Symptoms of schizophrenia
- Catatonia
- Catalepsy
- Automatic obedience
- Negativism
- Ambitendency
- Mitgehen
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- Mitmachen
- Mannerism
- Stereotypy
- Echpraxia
- Psychological pillow
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References
- Psychiatry, Third Edition. Edited by Allan Tasman,
Jerald Kay, Jeffrey A. Lieberman, Michael B. First and Mario Maj. John
Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2008.
- Sims, A. Symptoms in the Mind: An Introduction to Descriptive Psychopathology (3rd ed). Elsevier, 2002.
- Fish, F. Clinical Psychopathology, Signs and Symptoms in Psychiatry. Bristol: J. Wright & Sons. 1967.
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