psychiatry.txt

External expression of emotion; emotional response

Loss of memory

Absence of emotions; lack of interest or emotional involvement

Drugs used treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and other serious mental illnesses

Severe lack of responsiveness to others, preoccupation with inner thoughts, withdrawal and retarded language delay

Preoccupation with self-centered, illogical ideas and fantasies that exclude the external world

Drugs used to treat anxiety and panic attacks

Patient experiences alternating states of depression and exhilaration for at least 2 years; mild bipolar disorder

Confusion in thinking, anxiety, tremors, and sweating occurring with withdrawal from excessive and habitual use of alcohol

Sadness, hopelessness, and depressive mood; feeling "low"

Compulsive need to expose one's body, particularly the genitals, to an unsuspecting stranger

Use of non-living objects, such as articles of clothing, as substitutes for a human sexual love object

Face to face discussion of life problems and feelings to increase understanding of thoughts and behavior patterns; psychodynamic therapy

Unstable; undergoing rapid emotional change

Specialize in treatment of children

Forensic scientists

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) and Stanford-Binet intelligence scale

Rorschach technique (using unkblots), Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Thematic Apperception Test (Pictures used to make up stories), Graphomotor projection tests (Draw a person test and Bender-Gestalt test-draw geometric designs to pick up deficits in mental processing an memory caused by brain damage)

Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory - contains T/F questions that reveal aspects of personality-sense of duty or responsibility, ability to related to others, and dominance.

to seize hold of

mind

abnormal

Feeling, bearing

Mind

90-110

Wechsler Intelligence scale for children

Activities of daily living

Thematic Apperception Test

Autism spectrum disorder

Serotonin norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor

Chronological age

Cognitive behavioral therapy

Pervasive developmental disorder

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition, revised

Lysergic acid diethylamide

Mental age

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

Major depressive disorder

Tricyclic antidepressants

Tardive dyskinesia

Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol

October-November or mid-february to mid-april

insistance on sameness, gestures or pointing instead of words, Repeating words, like to be alone, tantrums, difficulty interacting with others, little eye contact, uneven motor skill, sensitive to sound, obsessive attachment to objects

want to interact but dont know how, fine rote memory skills, difficulty with abstract concepts, repetitive/restrictive patterns of behavior

Delusions, hallucinations, thought disorder, disorders of movement, flat affect, impaired interpersonal functioning

thought disorder, hallucinations, delusions, and disorders of movement

flat affect and impaired social functioning

Patient is mute and does not move or react to the outside environment

Patient exhibits disorganized speech and behavior and flat or inappropriate affect

Patient experiences prominent delusions of grandeur or persecution and auditory hallucinations

Negative symtoms of flat affect, fatigue, withdrawl, and lack of motivation

amphetamine, dextroamphetamine, methamphetamine, and methylphenidate

marijuana, hashish, THC

inhibited sexual response in women

Cocaine injected with heroin; act synergistically to depress respiratory function

Cocaine separated from powdered salt form and combined with ether, ammonia, or baking soda (crack or rock)

LSD, Mescaline (peyote), PCP

heroin, morphine, codeine, meperidine, oxycodone

phenobarbital and secobarbital (soothing, relaxing effect)

Temazepam, clonazepam, alprazolam, diazepam

State of altered consciousness (hypnosis)

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale

One or more manic episodes alternating with major depressive episodes

Recurrent major depressive episodes alternating with hypomanic episodes

Pertaining to the mind

Characterized by grandiose sense of self-importance or preoccupation with fantasies of success or power; self-love without empathy for others

Antipsychotic drugs used to treat psychoses such as schizophrenia and severe depression

Recurrent, intense sexual urge; fantasy or behavior that involves unusual objects, activities, and situations

Drugs used to treat serious mental illnesses of psychoses

Diagnostic personality test using unstructured stimuli to evoke responses that reflect aspects of an individual's personality

Treatment of the mind and mental disorders

Form of psychotherapy in which the patient explores his or her unconscious emotions and past to understand and change current behavior and feelings

Therapist who practices psychotherapy

Pertaining to produced within the mind, having emotional and psychologic origin, rather than a physical cause

Treatment of psychiatric disorders with drugs

Loss of contact with reality

Pertaining to the inter-relationship of the mind and body

Ability to perceive fact from fantasy

Emotionally cold and aloof, as if split off from other people; indifferent to praise or criticism or to the feelings of others

Psychoses marked by withdrawal from reality into an inner world of disorganized thinking and conflict

Drugs that lessen anxiety

Sexual gratification gained by being mutilated, beaten, or bound or otherwise made to suffer by another person

Sexual gratification gained by inflicting physical or psychologic pain or harm on others

Process by which a patient relates to a therapist as though the therapist was a prominent childhood figure

Group of drugs used to treat severe depression

Abnormal desire to look at sexual organs or watch sexual acts

Fear of strangers