
Neuro Bard
June 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
••IMPORTANT TERMS••
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•Klebenbleiben: A German term for a type of language disturbance in schizophrenia in which the patient remains stuck on the same topic, restating it in different words but unable to move on.
•Double bookkeeping: A term used to describe the ability in schizophrenia to simultaneously live in two separate worlds, namely, the shared social world and a private, psychotic one.
•Pseudohallucination: A hallucination which the patient knows to be such.
•Witzelsucht: A rare neuropsychiatric syndrome characterized by the tendency to tell inappropriate jokes, make puns, or tell pointless stories in inappropriate social situations.
•Limerence: A state of infatuation or obsession with another person.
•Anhedonia: The inability to experience pleasure.
•Apophenia: The tendency to see meaningful connections between unrelated things.
•Aboulia: The inability to make decisions or take action.
•Pareidolia: The tendency to see faces or other meaningful shapes in random objects or patterns.
•Maladaptive daydreaming: A type of excessive daydreaming that can interfere with daily life.
•Synesthesia: A neurological condition in which stimulation of one sense leads to an experience in another sense, such as seeing colors when hearing sounds.