MSE and AIMS Terms

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Subjective experience of emotion accompanying an idea or mental representation
Affect
  • Rambling, over inclusive pattern of speaking in which the patient will eventually get to the point
Circumstantiality
  • Thoughts merely associated by words, which are similar in sound, but not in significance
Clang associations
  • Repetitive, ritualistic behavior designed to reduce anxiety regarding an obsessional thought
Compulsion
  • Fabrication of facts or events in response to questions in order to fill in the gaps in impaired memory
Confabulation
A fixed false personal belief based on incorrect inference about external reality which is firmly held in spite of proof or evidence to the contrary
Delusion
Dysphoria
Unpleasant mood
Repetition of another person's wordss or phrases
Echolalia
Repetition of another person's actions or gestures
Echopraxia
Rapidly jumping from one thought to another, but the associations are clearly connected
Flight of ideas
Sensory perception without external stimulation of the relevent sensory organ
Hallucination
Belief that some event, often of no consequence, is related to them
Ideas of reference
A sensory perception in which an external stimulus is misperceived or misinterpreted
Illusion
Self understanding; the extent of a person's understanding of the origin, nature, and mechanisms of their maladaptive attitudes and behavior
Insight
Succession of thoughts that are not context-bound, the examiner cannot detect any connection between them
Looseness of associtation