SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS IN PSYCHIATRY
1. Alternations of Personality and Behavior: Individuals thinking, Feeling and Behavior.
2. Alterations of Biological Functions: Sleep, Appetite, Activity and Sexual functions.
3. Disorders of Consciousness:
o Quantitative Changes: Clouding of Consciousness, Drowsiness, Sopor, and Coma.
o Qualitative Changes: Somnolence (excessive daytime sleepiness), Twilight states and Automatisms, Fugue and Dissociation, Stupor.
4. Disorders of Attention and Concentration.
5. Disorders of Orientation.
6. Volitional Disturbances: Lesions of mid-brain where centres of biological drives are located cause volitional disturbances by reducing drives.
7. Disorders of Motor Activity:
o Disturbances in the level of activity: Hyperactivity, Retardation.
o Qualitative Disturbances: Disturbances of movement, Disturbances of posture and expression, Disturbances of motor speech.
(to be conted....)
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