Psychiatric and Neurological Symptoms Vocabulary

Vocabulary terms and definitions covering negative psychiatric symptoms and neurological disorders from the lecture notes.

Apathy

State of having no interest, enthusiasm, or concern about things.

Anhedonia

The inability to feel pleasure from activities that person usually enjoys.

Alogia

Poverty of speech; a significant reduction in the amount or fluency of speech.

Avolition

Inability to complete a task.

Agnosia

A rare neurological disorder characterized by the inability to recognize and interpret sensory information.

Apraxia

A neurological disorder characterized by inability to perform purposeful, learned movements, even though the person has a physical desire, willingness and capacity to do them.