Positive symptoms of schizophrenia

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Delusions
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Delusions
fixed false personal beliefs
Religiosity
excessive demonstration of obsession with religious ideas and behavior
Paranoia
extreme suspiciousness of others
Magical thinking
ideas that one's thoughts or behaviors have control over specific situations
Perseveration
Persistent repetition of the same word or idea in response to different questions
Ideas of Reference
Misinterpretation of others verbalizations or actions that is perceived as having personal meaning
Concrete thinking
literal interpretations of the environment
Depersonalization
feelings fo unreality
Associative looseness or loose association
a shift of ideas from one unrelated topic to another
Neologism
made-up words that have meaning only to the person who invents them
Clang associationschoice of words is governed by sound (often rhyming)Word Saladgroup of words put together in a random fashionCirumstantialitydelay in reaching the point of a communication because of unnecessary and tedious detailsTangentialityinability to get to the point of communication due to introduction of many new topicsMutismInability or refusal to speakIdentification and imitationTaking on the form of behavior one observes in anotherEcholaliarepeating words that are heardEchopraxiarepeating movements that are observedPerceptionsinterpretation of stimuli through the systemsHallucinationsFalse sensory perceptions not associated with real external stimuli: Auditory, Visual, Tactile, Gustatory, OlfactoryIllusionsmisperceptions of real external stimuliCommand Hallucinationsauditory hallucinations that instruct a patient to act in specific ways; these orders can range in seriousness from innocuous to life-threatening.