Behavioral

• Illusion


  Misperception of an actual external stimuli
• Hallucination


  False sensory perception in the absence of external stimuli
• Neologism


  Pathological coining of new words
• Circumstantiality


  Over inclusion of details
• Word salad


  Incoherent mixture of words and phrases
• Flight of ideas


  Shifting of one topic from one subject to another in a completely unrelated way
• Looseness of Association


  Shifting of a topic from one subject to another in somewhat related way
• Verbigeration


  Meaningless repetition of word or phrases
• Perseveration


  Persistence of a response to a previous question
• Echolalia


  Pathological repetition of words of others
• Clang association


  The sound of the word gives direction to the flow of thought
• Delusion


  False belief which is inconsistent with one's knowledge and culture
• Grandeur


  • Exaggerated belief of identity
• Nihilistic


  • The client denies the existence of self or part of self
• Persecution


  • Belief that he or she is the object of environmental attention and being singled out for harassment
• Self-depreciation


  • Worthlessness or hopelessness
• Somatic


  • False belief to body function
• Inappropriate affect


  Disharmony between the stimuli and the emotional reaction
• Blunted affect


  Severe reduction in emotional reaction
• Flat affect


  Absence or near absence of emotional reaction
• Apathy


  Dulled emotional tone
• Echopraxia


  The pathological imitation of posture/action of others
• Waxy flexibility


  Maintaining the desired position for long periods of time without discomfort
• Akinesia


  Loss of movement
• Bradykinesia


  Slowness of all voluntary movement including speech
• Ataxia


  Loss of coordinated movement
• Confabulation


  Filling in of memory gaps
• Amnesia


  Inability to recall past events
• Anterograde amnesia


  • Inability to recall immediate past
• Retrograde amnesia


  • Inability to recall distant past
• Déjà vu


  Feeling of having been to place which one has not yet visited
• Jamais vu


  Feeling of not having been to a place which one has visited
• Dementia


  Gradual deterioration of intellectual functioning results in the decreased of capacity to perform ADL
• Agitation


  Severe anxiety associated with motor restlessness
• Agnosia


  Inability to recognize and interpret sensory stimuli
• Akathisia


  Subjective feeling of muscular tension, restlessness and pacing repeated sitting and standing
• Ambivalence


  Presence of two opposing feelings at the same time
• Aphasia


  Inability or difficulty to speak or recall words
• Apraxia


  Inability to carry out specific task or activity
• Delirium


  Acute change or disturbance in a person's: LOC, cognition, emotion, perception