Schizophrenia Terminology

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Across
  1. 3. made up words that have meaning for the patient, but a different or non-existent meaning for others
  2. 4. type of thinking that refers to an impaired ability to think abstractly
  3. 5. psychomotor restlessness evident as pacing or fidgeting
  4. 7. (two words) a sudden interruption in the thought process, usually due to internal stimuli
  5. 8. pathological repeating of another’s words
  6. 10. acute sustained contraction of muscles
  7. 14. (Three words) life threatening disorder associated with antipsychotic medication, symptoms include reduced consciousness, increased muscle tone, and autonomic dysfunction
  8. 17. any intense or strongly defended irrational suspicion
  9. 18. (two words) jumble of words that is meaningless to the listener and sometimes even the speaker
  10. 19. reduced motivation; inability to initiate tasks such as social contacts, grooming and other ADLs
  11. 20. lack of energy, passivity
  12. 21. (two words) a reduction in the expression, range, and intensity of affect
Down
  1. 1. a medication-induced, temporary constellation of symptoms associated with Parkinson’s disease
  2. 2. fixed false beliefs that cannot be corrected by reasoning
  3. 4. (two words) choice of words based on their sounds, rather than meaning ( Click, clack, clutch)
  4. 6. misperception or misinterpretation of a real experience (patient sees coat rack, but believes it is a bear about to attack)
  5. 9. false perception that the environment has changed (everything seems bigger or smaller)
  6. 11. (two words) persistent EPS that usually appears after prolonged treatment and persists even after the medication has been discontinued (involuntary tonic muscular contractions involving tongue, fingers, toes, neck, trunk, or pelvis)
  7. 12. (three words) personalization of unrelated events (patient sees a nurse talking with doctor and believes they are talking about him)
  8. 13. involve perceiving a sensory experience for which no external stimulus exists (hearing a voice when no one is speaking)
  9. 15. nonspecific feeling that a person has lost his or her identity and that the self if different or unreal (someone feels like a body part doesn’t belong to them)
  10. 16. mimicking of movements of another
  11. 21. inability to experience pleasure in activities that usually produce it