Schizophrenia

Alogia

A decrease in speech or speech content; a symptom of schizophrenia. Also known as poverty of speech.

Neologism

A new word, usage, or expression.

Disorganized type*

A subtype of schizophrenia characterized by disorganized behavior, disorganized speech, and emotional flatness or inappropriateness.

Negative symptoms of Schizophrenia

Affective Flattening, Alogia, Avolition, Avolition, Anhedonia, Asociality, Attention Deficits. (7-A's)

Anhedonia

An inability to experience pleasure. Pt finds no pleasure in things they had previous to getting ill.

Echolalia

Automatic and immediate repetition of what others say

Mutism

Inability or refusal to speak

Echopraxia

Meaningless imitation of another person's movements

Paranoid Type*

Prominent hallucinations and delusions are present. Delusions are often persecutory or grandiose, and they often connect into a somewhat organized story. Hallucination often linked to delusions. Somatic and religious delusions

Asociality

a negative symptom of schizophrenia marked by an inability to form close relationships and to feel intimacy

Positive symptoms of Schizophrenia

excesses, such as delusions and hallucinations, loosening of associations, disorganized behavior

Avolition

lack of motivation; an inability to pursue and persist in goal directed activities. (amotivational syndrome)

Affective Flattening

near absence of emotional or facial expression

Nihilistic

rejecting all religious and moral principles in the belief that life is meaningless.

Clang association

the choice of words based on their sound rather than their meaning.