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| 2216192966 | agranulocytosis | Extremely low levels of white blood cells. Symptoms include sore throat, fever, and malaise. This may be a side effect of long-term therapy with some antipsychotic medications. | 0 | |
| 2216260954 | akathisia | Restlessness; an urgent need for movement. A type of extrapyramidal side effect associated with some antipsychotic medications. | 1 | |
| 2216263459 | akinesia | Muscular weakness; or a loss or partial loss of muscle movement; a type of extrapyramidal side effect associated with some antipsychotic medications. | 2 | |
| 2216266005 | amenorrhea | Cessation of the menses; may be a side effect of some antipsychotic medications. | 3 | |
| 2216270362 | anhedonia | The inability to experience or even imagine any pleasant emotion. | 4 | |
| 2216275681 | associative looseness | Sometimes called loose associations, a thinking process characterized by speech in which ideas shift from one unrelated subject to another. The individual is unaware that the topics are unconnected. | 5 | |
| 2216284782 | catatonia | A type of psychological disturbance that is typified by stupor or excitement. Stupor is characterized by extreme psychomotor retardation, mutism, negativism, and posturing; excitement by psychomotor agitation, in which the movements are frenzied and purposeless. Catatonic symptoms may be associated with other mental or physical disorders. | 6 | |
| 2216292361 | circumstantiality | In speaking, the delay of an individual to reach the point of a communication, owing to unnecessary and tedious details. | 7 | |
| 2216295282 | clang association | A pattern of speech in which the choice of words is governed by sounds. Clang associations often take the form of rhyming. | 8 | |
| 2216303260 | delusions | False personal beliefs, not consistent with a person's intelligence or cultural background. The individual continues to have the belief in spite of obvious proof that it is false and/or irrational. | 9 | |
| 2216306124 | dystonia | Involuntary muscular movements (spasms) of the face, arms, legs, and neck; may occur as an extrapyramidal side effect of some antipsychotic medications. | 10 | |
| 2216310534 | echolalia | The parrot-like repetition, by an individual with loose ego boundaries, of the words spoken by another. | 11 | |
| 2216313356 | echopraxia | An individual with loose ego boundaries attempting to identify with another person by imitating movements that the other person makes. | 12 | |
| 2216320037 | extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS) | A variety of responses that originate outside the pyramidal tracts and in the basal ganglion of the brain. Symptoms may include tremors, chorea, dystonia, akinesia, akathisia, and others. May occur as a side effect of some antipsychotic medications. | 13 | |
| 2216323893 | gynecomastia | Enlargement of the breasts in men; may be a side effect of some antipsychotic medications. | 14 | |
| 2216329565 | hallucinations | False sensory perceptions not associated with real external stimuli. Hallucinations may involve any of the five senses. | 15 | |
| 2216330896 | illusion | A misperception of a real external stimulus. | 16 | |
| 2216334351 | magical thinking | A primitive form of thinking in which an individual believes that thinking about a possible occurrence can make it happen. | 17 | |
| 2216341276 | neologism | New words that an individual invents that are meaningless to others, but have symbolic meaning to the psychotic person. | 18 | |
| 2216342673 | neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) | A rare but potentially fatal complication of treatment with neuroleptic drugs. Symptoms include severe muscle rigidity, high fever, tachycardia, fluctuations in blood pressure, diaphoresis, and rapid deterioration of mental status to stupor and coma. | 19 | |
| 2216350162 | oculogyric crisis | An attack of involuntary deviation and fixation of the eyeballs, usually in the upward position. It may last for several minutes or hours and may occur as an extrapyramidal side effect of some antipsychotic medications. | 20 | |
| 2216353974 | paranoia | A term that implies extreme suspiciousness. In schizophrenia, paranoia is characterized by persecutory delusions and hallucinations of a threatening nature. | 21 | |
| 2216360279 | perseveration | Persistent repetition of the same word or idea in response to different questions. | 22 | |
| 2216365462 | pseudoparkinsonism | A side effect of some antipsychotic medications. Symptoms mimic those of Parkinson's disease, such as tremor, shuffling gait, drooling, and rigidity. | 23 | |
| 2216381731 | religiosity | Excessive demonstration of or obsession with religious ideas and behavior; common in schizophrenia. | 24 | |
| 2216390209 | retrograde ejaculation | Ejaculation of the seminal fluid backwards into the bladder; may occur as a side effect of antipsychotic medications. | 25 | |
| 2216398877 | social skills training | Educational opportunities through role play for the person with schizophrenia to learn appropriate social interaction skills and functional skills that are relevant to daily living. | 26 | |
| 2216404900 | tangentiality | The inability to get to the point of a story. The speaker introduces many unrelated topics, until the original topic of discussion is lost. | 27 | |
| 2216413837 | tardive dyskinesia | Syndrome of symptoms characterized by bizarre facial and tongue movements, a stiff neck, and difficulty swallowing. It may occur as an adverse effect of long-term therapy with some antipsychotic medications. | 28 | |
| 2216416032 | waxy flexibility | A condition by which the individual with schizophrenia passively yields all movable parts of the body to any efforts made at placing them in certain positions. | 29 | |
| 2216422098 | word salad | A group of words that are put together in a random fashion without any logical connection. | 30 |
