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simultagnosia - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Inability to comphrehend
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more than one element of visual scene at a time
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anosognosia - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Ignorance of illness
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apraxias - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Inability to carry out specific
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tasks


astereognosis - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Inability to recognize
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objects by touch |\ |\




adiadochokinesia - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Inability to perform |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


rapid alternating movements
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Name four disturbances of attention - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Hypervigliance, selective inattention, distractibility, trance |\ |\ |\ |\




What is hypervigilance? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔excessive
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attention and focus on all internal and external stimuli
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What is selective inattenion? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Blocking
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out only things that generate anxiety
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,What is distractability? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Inability to
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concentrate attention |\




What is trance? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔focused attention and
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altered consciousness
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Name 4 disturbances in preception - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Hallunications, hypagonic experiences, depersonalization, and |\ |\ |\ |\


derealization
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Name 5 physiological disturbances associated with mood -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔anorexia, hyperphagia, insomnia,
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hypersomnia, durinal variation |\ |\




What is hyperphagia? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔increased
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appiette or intake of food |\ |\ |\ |\




What is hypersomnia? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔excessive
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sleeping


What is durinal variation? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔mood
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regularly worse in the morning, immediately after waking, then
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improves as the day goes on |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




The loss of normal speech melody is? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Dysprosody

, The repetitive fixed pattern of physical action or speech is? -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Sterotypy |\ |\




The pathological imiatation of movements of one's person is? -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Echopraxia |\ |\




Temporary loss of muscle tone and weakness precipatated by
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variety of emotional states is? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Cataplexy


Ingrained, habitual involuntary movements are? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Mannerisms |\




Subjectuve feelings of muscular tension secondary to psych
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meds is? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Akathisia
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Coherent patients that never gets to the point has a disturbance
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in the form of thought - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Tangentality
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Sundowning is usually associated with? - CORRECT ANSWERS |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


✔✔Being over medicated |\ |\




What are neologisms? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔new words
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created by patients |\ |\

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