Emotional perversion

Introduction An emotional disorder. Refers to the reversal of the loss of coordination between the cognitive process and the emotional activity of the person. At this time, the emotional response of the person does not correspond to the nature of the corresponding external stimulus and the inner experience. If you encounter a sad incident, you are very happy and happy; on the contrary, when you meet a happy event, you are sad. In addition, there is a wrong expression. This is an expression of an inconsistency or opposite between an emotional experience and an expression. For example, the appearance of crying and sorrow, but the heart is not sad experience, or vice versa. These two affective disorders occur mostly in patients with schizophrenia, especially in young patients.

Cause

It is a brain disease that is closely related to neurodevelopmental abnormalities. There is significant cognitive impairment. Mainly to perform dysfunction, including attention, memory and information processing process defects.

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Brain CT examination

The emotional reaction is essentially inverted. The patient sings happy songs with tears and laughs and tells about his pain and misfortune (emotional inversion). Or create contradictory emotions against something.

Differential diagnosis

Identification with auditory hallucinations:

Patient behavior is often dominated by auditory hallucinations. Such as long conversations with the voice, anger, laughter, fear, or muttering, listening to the ear; or indulging in auditory hallucinations, laughing, talking to yourself, making whispers. The auditory hallucination can be true, the sound comes from the objective space, the outside world. It can also be a false illusion, that is, the patient hears a voice in the mind and talks about him. The emotional reaction is essentially inverted. The patient sings happy songs with tears and laughs and tells about his pain and misfortune (emotional inversion). Or create contradictory emotions against something.

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