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Schizophrenia Positive and Negative Symptoms

Terms in this set (23)

Associative Looseness
Positive (fragmented thoughts/ideas)
Delusions
Positive (fixed false beliefs, personal beliefs based on on incorrect inference of external reality)
Echopraxia
Positive (imitating another's movements or gestures)
Flight of Ideas
Positive (Jumps from one topic to another)
Hallucinations
Positive (false sensory perceptions, pt actually experiences the sensory distortion as being real)
Ideas of Reference
Positive (attaches personal significance to trivial event- see people talking and assume its about you)
Perseveration
Positive (persistent adherence to single topic)
Bizarre Behavior
Positive (wild clothing, makeup, purposeless movements, unusual social or sexual behavior)
Disorganized Speech and Behavior
Positive (formal though disorder- word salad, loose associations, pressured speech)
Alogia
Negative (speaking very little, difficulty or inability to speak)
Anhedonia
Negative (feeling no joy or pleasure or closeness/intimacy)
Apathy
Negative (indifference toward people, activities, events; lack of interest or concern)
Asociality
Negative (social withdrawal)
Blunted Affect
Negative (restricted range of emotional feeling, tone)
Catatonia
Negative (psychologically induced immobility)
Flat Affect
Negative (absence of any facial expression)
Avolition
Negative (absence of will, ambition, drive, decrease in motivation to perform ADLs)
Inattention
Negative (can't concentrate, focus, attentional impairment)
Neologisms
Positive (made up words)
Echolalia
Positive (repeating of words spoken to pt)
Clang Association
Positive (meaningless rhyming of words- forceful)
Word Salad
Positive (words jumbled together)
Alexithymia
Negative (difficulty naming, describing emotions)
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