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17 - 522_Descriptive_Psychopathology

01 - 1. Mood and Affect

1. Mood and Affect:

02 - Aspects of Affect

Aspects of Affect:

03 - Coexisting features of mood disturbance

Coexisting features of mood disturbance: © SPMM Course Mood and Affect: The terms affective diso...

04 - Pain symptoms

Pain symptoms: © SPMM Course Mixed states: It is long appreciated that between the extremes of ma...

05 - Anhedonia & Alexithymia

Anhedonia & Alexithymia:

06 - Mood and perception of time

Mood and perception of time: © SPMM Course For somatoform pain, head and neck are the most common...

07 - 2. Disorders of perception

2. Disorders of perception © SPMM Course 2. Disorders of perception Perception consists of two pa...

08 - Imagery & Illusions

Imagery & Illusions © SPMM Course The above table has been pictorially represented below: Imagery...

09 - Pseudohallucinations

Pseudohallucinations: © SPMM Course Type of illusion Context Quality Effect of concentration Exam...

10 - Hallucinations

Hallucinations © SPMM Course They are intermediate between fantasy (imagery) and hallucinations. ...

11 - Synaesthesia

Synaesthesia: © SPMM Course Reflex hallucinations: These are hallucinations in one modality provo...

12 - 3. Delusions

3. Delusions © SPMM Course 3. Delusions DSM-IV defines a delusion as “A false belief … that is fi...

13 - 4. First Rank Symptoms

4. First Rank Symptoms: © SPMM Course 4. First Rank Symptoms:  Kurt Schneider, a German psychiat...

14 - 5. Psychopathology of speech

5. Psychopathology of speech

15 - Aspects of conversational speech

Aspects of conversational speech:

16 - Disorders of phonationarticulation

Disorders of phonation/articulation:

17 - Disturbed speech production

Disturbed speech production:

18 - 1. Altered speed of speech

1. Altered speed of speech:

19 - 2. Altered amount of speech

2. Altered amount of speech: © SPMM Course 5. Psychopathology of speech Aspects of conversational...

20 - 3. Repetitive speech

3. Repetitive speech:

21 - Disturbed Language processing

Disturbed Language processing: © SPMM Course b. Hysterical mutism: This is relatively rare, and t...

22 - Components of Language production

Components of Language production:

23 - Aphasia

Aphasia:

24 - Disorders of reading and writing

Disorders of reading and writing: © SPMM Course Components of Language production: Fluency: Prod...

25 - 6. Disorders of Thought

6. Disorders of Thought:

26 - Elements of thought

Elements of thought: © SPMM Course 6. Disorders of Thought: Normal thinking: Normal thinking is o...

27 - Formal thought disorders (FTD)

Formal thought disorders (FTD): © SPMM Course thought disorder’. But note that the term FTD incre...

28 - Stream of Thought

Stream of Thought: © SPMM Course space, demonstrating graphical connections between people and qu...

29 - Possession Control of thought

Possession /Control of thought: © SPMM Course Possession /Control of thought: Obsessions are unwa...

30 - 7. Motor symptoms

7. Motor symptoms

31 - Catatonic symptoms

Catatonic symptoms: © SPMM Course 7. Motor symptoms Fish classified motor symptoms into a. Abnorm...

32 - Non Catatonic symptoms

Non-Catatonic symptoms: © SPMM Course similar to thought blocking but occurs while carrying out m...

33 - 8. Miscellaneous topics

8. Miscellaneous topics

34 - Pathology of familiarity

Pathology of familiarity:

35 - Memory and dissociation

Memory and dissociation: © SPMM Course 8. Miscellaneous topics Pathology of familiarity: Déjà vu ...

36 - Depersonalisation

Depersonalisation: © SPMM Course conversion symptom not delusional as the husband does not think ...

37 - Insight

Insight:

38 - Phenomenology of epilepsy

Phenomenology of epilepsy: © SPMM Course Desomatisation refers to depersonalisation that is local...