Affect: pattern of observable behaviours which is the expression of a subjectively experienced feeling state (emotion) and is variable over time in response to changing emotional states

 

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Affect: pattern of observable behaviours which is the expression of a subjectively experienced feeling state (emotion) and is variable over time in response to changing emotional states

Schizoaffective Disorder: (skiz-o-a-feck-tiv) A condition that includes symptoms of both schizophrenia and affective (mood) disorder.

Constricted Affect: Affect type that represents mild reduction in the range and intensity of emotional expression.

Labile Affect: affect repeatedly and rapidly shifts from one extreme to another e.g. from despair to elation

Affected Relative Pair: Individuals related by blood, each of whom is affected with the same trait. Examples are affected sibling, cousin, and avuncular pairs.

Doctrine Of The Affections: Baroque doctrine of the union of text and music.

Affective Symptoms: Symptoms of schizophrenia that relate to mood or emotional expression.

Inappropriate Affect: Reacting in an inappropriate manner, such as laughing when hearing bad news.

Blunted Affect: reduction in emotional expression

Flat Affect: almost no emotional expression at all -the patient typically has an immobile face and monotonous voice.