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A large group of disorders characterized by unrealistic anxiety and other associated problems
Neurosis
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Stress-related disorder characterized by amnesia, fugue, or multiple personality
Dissociative Disorder
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Group of psychotic disorders involving major disturbances in perception, language, thought, emotion, and behavior
Schizophrenia
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Type of anxiety disorder characterized by intense, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object or situation
Phobia
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The co-occurence of two or more disorders in the same person at the same time
Comorbidity
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Perspective that assumes diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and possibly cured
Medical Perspective
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A legal term applied when people cannot be held responsible for their actions
Insanity
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The specialized branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental disordres
Psychiatry
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Mistaken beliefs based on misrepresentation of reality
Delusions
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A theory suggesting that Schizophrenia is caused by an overactivity of dopamine neurons in a specific region of the brain
Dopamine Hypothesis
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Personality disorder characterized by egocentrism, lack of conscience, impulsive behavior, and manipulation of others
Antisocial Personality Disorder
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Inflexible, maladaptive personality traits that cause significant impairment of social functions
Personality Disorders
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Type of abnormal behavior characterized by unrealistic irrational fear
Anxiety Disorder
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Seligman's Theory, a state of helplessness or resignation in which people or animals learn that escape from something painful is impossible and depression results
Learned Helplessness
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Patterns of emotion, thought, and action considered pathological (diseased or disordered) for one or more of these reasons: statistical infrequency, disability or dysfunction, personal distress, or violation of norms
Abnormal Behavior
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Type of anxiety disorder characterize by sudden and inexplicable attacks of intense fear
Panic Disorder
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Imaginary sensory perceptions that occur without external stimuli
Hallucinations
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Serious mental disorders characterized by extreme mental disruption and loss of contact with reality
Psychosis
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A mental disorder in which at least two separate and distinct personalities exist within the same person
- Multiple Personality Disorder
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- Disassociative Identity Disoder
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Behavioral deficits in Schizophrenia
Negative Symptoms
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Helps diagnose and categorize mental disorders and their symptoms
DSM-IV-TR
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Persistent thoughts are relieved by ritualistic ations
OCD
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