Week 4: Boyd - Chapter 10 and 12
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1. affect: Full/Broad
Blunted/Flat
Congruent
Incongruent
2. blunted/flat (affect): dulled range of expression. An associated symptom of depression, brain injury,
trauma.
3. congruent (affect): appropriate emotional expression to the content being discussed. Considered authen-
tic, genuine, "integrated"
4. incongruent (affect): inappropriate emotional expression to the content being discussed. Considered
inauthentic, "superficial."
5. mood: euthymic
depressed/dysphoric
Elated/euphoric
Labile
Anhedonia
6. euthymic (mood): Normal or typical mood. Upbeat, "happy."
7. Depressed/dysphoric (mood): Down, "blue" mood. Often with decreased energy. Irritability or anxiety
occurs in some people. Common to depression, anxiety, and depressed states of bipolar disorder.
8. Elated/euphoric (mood): "Up," "on top of the world." Often with increased energy. Common to manic
states of bipolar disorder.
9. Labile (mood): Capricious, unstable, quickly changing mood.
10. Anhedonia (mood): Lack of interest and withdrawal from regular and pleasurable activities that one used
to enjoy. An associated symptom of depression.
11. form of thought processes: Logical, coherent
Circumstantial
Tangential
Loose associations
Flight of ideas
12. Logical, coherent (thought process): Clear, direct connections between content. One idea flows
directly into another.
13. circumstantial (thought process): Digressions to unnecessary details in thought and speech before
communicating the central idea.
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14. Tangential (thought process): Oblique, digressive, irrelevant speech. The central idea is not commu-
nicated
15. loose associations (thought process): Little or vague connection is made between concepts;
continuous tangential "rabbit-holing." Can be a symptom of schizophrenia.
16. flight of ideas (thought process): Multiple thoughts and ideas are generated spontaneously,
without obvious connection. Often occurs in manic states; associated with bipolar disorder.
17. attention and speed thought processes: Distractible
Preoccupied
Rumination
Latent
Racing thoughts
18. Distractible (thought process): Focus can shift quickly onto the external environment. This awareness
interrupts the present dialogue.
19. Preoccupied (thought process): Inattentive to the external environment, internally focused, seems
to be thinking deeply.
20. Rumination (thought process): Preoccupation with a single idea or theme.
21. Latent (thought process): A prolonged period of time between a thought and its verbal expression.
22. Racing thoughts (thought process): Multiple thoughts occurring in a seamless fashion. Often in
list form. These thoughts have a pressured quality.
23. memory and consciousness: Intact memory
Anterograde amnesia
Retrograde amnesia
24. Confabulation: the act of filling in memory gaps
25. orientation (consciousness): To time, place, person, situation
26. Dissociation (consciousness): Altered consciousness, a trance-like state, disconnected from emo-
tions. Often occurs in response to painful emotional content. An associated symptom of trauma
27. regression: Return to a childlike state. The person is unconsciousness and unaware of their regression (if they
are aware, it is usually a symptom of manipulation)
28. motor: Relaxed, normal
Psychomotor retardation, hypoactive
Catatonic
Apathetic
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1. affect: Full/Broad
Blunted/Flat
Congruent
Incongruent
2. blunted/flat (affect): dulled range of expression. An associated symptom of depression, brain injury,
trauma.
3. congruent (affect): appropriate emotional expression to the content being discussed. Considered authen-
tic, genuine, "integrated"
4. incongruent (affect): inappropriate emotional expression to the content being discussed. Considered
inauthentic, "superficial."
5. mood: euthymic
depressed/dysphoric
Elated/euphoric
Labile
Anhedonia
6. euthymic (mood): Normal or typical mood. Upbeat, "happy."
7. Depressed/dysphoric (mood): Down, "blue" mood. Often with decreased energy. Irritability or anxiety
occurs in some people. Common to depression, anxiety, and depressed states of bipolar disorder.
8. Elated/euphoric (mood): "Up," "on top of the world." Often with increased energy. Common to manic
states of bipolar disorder.
9. Labile (mood): Capricious, unstable, quickly changing mood.
10. Anhedonia (mood): Lack of interest and withdrawal from regular and pleasurable activities that one used
to enjoy. An associated symptom of depression.
11. form of thought processes: Logical, coherent
Circumstantial
Tangential
Loose associations
Flight of ideas
12. Logical, coherent (thought process): Clear, direct connections between content. One idea flows
directly into another.
13. circumstantial (thought process): Digressions to unnecessary details in thought and speech before
communicating the central idea.
, Week 4: Boyd - Chapter 10 and 12
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14. Tangential (thought process): Oblique, digressive, irrelevant speech. The central idea is not commu-
nicated
15. loose associations (thought process): Little or vague connection is made between concepts;
continuous tangential "rabbit-holing." Can be a symptom of schizophrenia.
16. flight of ideas (thought process): Multiple thoughts and ideas are generated spontaneously,
without obvious connection. Often occurs in manic states; associated with bipolar disorder.
17. attention and speed thought processes: Distractible
Preoccupied
Rumination
Latent
Racing thoughts
18. Distractible (thought process): Focus can shift quickly onto the external environment. This awareness
interrupts the present dialogue.
19. Preoccupied (thought process): Inattentive to the external environment, internally focused, seems
to be thinking deeply.
20. Rumination (thought process): Preoccupation with a single idea or theme.
21. Latent (thought process): A prolonged period of time between a thought and its verbal expression.
22. Racing thoughts (thought process): Multiple thoughts occurring in a seamless fashion. Often in
list form. These thoughts have a pressured quality.
23. memory and consciousness: Intact memory
Anterograde amnesia
Retrograde amnesia
24. Confabulation: the act of filling in memory gaps
25. orientation (consciousness): To time, place, person, situation
26. Dissociation (consciousness): Altered consciousness, a trance-like state, disconnected from emo-
tions. Often occurs in response to painful emotional content. An associated symptom of trauma
27. regression: Return to a childlike state. The person is unconsciousness and unaware of their regression (if they
are aware, it is usually a symptom of manipulation)
28. motor: Relaxed, normal
Psychomotor retardation, hypoactive
Catatonic
Apathetic
