Abnormal Psych Text 3.txt

• AIDS-related complex (ARC)
• Group of minor health problems such as weight loss, fever and night sweats that appears after HIV infection but before development of full blown AIDS

Condition in which the bodys immune system attacks healthy tissue rather than antigens

Afflictions in the mechanisms, including the heart, blood vessels, and their controllers, that are responsible for transporting blood to the body's tissues and organs. Psychological factors may play important roles in such diseases and their treatments.

Enduring pain that does not decrease over time; may occur in muscles, joints, and the lower back;and may be due to enlarged blood vessels or degenerating or cancerous tissue. Other significant factors are social and psychological.

Blockage of the arteries supplying blood to the heart muscle, a major cause of death in Western culture, with social and psychological factors involved.

Substances occurring naturally throughout the body that function like neurotransmitters to shut down pain sensation even in the presence of marked tissue damage. These may contribute to psychological problems such as eating disorders. Also known as endorphins or enkephalins.

Sequence of reactions to sustained stress described by Hans Selye. These stages are alarm, resistance, and exhaustion, which may lead to death.

Also known as high blood pressure; a major risk factor for stroke and heart and kidney disease that is intimately related to psychological factors

Active components of meditation methods, including repetitive thoughts of a sound to reduce distracting thoughts and closing the mind to other intruding thoughts, that decrease the flow of stress hormones and neurotransmitters and cause a feeling of calm

Body's physiological response to a stressor, which is any event or change that requires adaptation

• Anorexia nervosa
• Eating disorder characterized by recurrent food refusal leading to dangerously low body weight

Relatively brief episode of uncontrolled, excessive consumption, usually of food or alcohol

Pattern of eating involving distress-inducing binges not followed by purging behaviors; being considered as a new DSM diagnostic category

Eating disorder involving recurrent episodes of uncontrolled excessive (binge) eating followed by compensatory actions to remove the food (e.g. deliberate vomiting, laxative abuse, excessive exercise)

Abnormally excessive sleep; a person with this condition will fall asleep several times a day.

Sleep disorder involving sudden and irresistible sleep attacks

Abnormal behaviors such as nightmares or sleepwalking that occur during sleep

Difficulty in initiating, maintaining, or gaining from sleep; not related to other medical or psychological problems

In the eating disorder bulimia nervosa, the self-induced vomiting or laxative abuse used to compensate for excessive food ingestion

Disorder involving brief period when breathing ceases during sleep

Percentage of time actually spent sleeping of the total time spent in bed

Long-term, recurring, intense sexually arousing urges, fantasies, or behavior involving the use of nonliving, unusual objects, which cause distress or impairment in life functioning

Psychological dissatisfaction with ones own biological gender, a disturbance in the sense of ones identity as male or female. The primary goal is not sexual arousal but rather to live the life of the opposite gender

Apparent lack of interest in sexual activity or fantasy that would not be expected considering the persons age and life situation

Sexual disorders and deviations in which sexual arousal occurs almost exclusively in the context of inappropriate objects or individuals

Extreme and presistent dislike of sexual contact or similar activities

Recurring genital pain in either males or females before, during. or after sexual intercourse

Paraphilia in which sexual arousal is associated with inflicting pain or humiliation

Replacement of a drug on which a person is dependent with one having a similar chemical makeup, an agonist. Used as a treatment for substance dependence

Cognitive, biological, behavioral, and social problems associated with alcohol use and abuse

Psychological, biological, behavioral, and social problems associated with amphetamine use and abuse

Medications that block or counteract the effects of psychoactive drugs

Sedative (and addictive) drugs including Amytal, Seconal and Nembutal that are used as sleep aids

Antianxiety drugs including Valium, Xanax, Dalmane and Halcoin also used to treat insomnia. Effective against Anxiety (and, at high potency, panic disorder), they show some side effects such as cognitive and motor impairment and may result in dependence and addiction. Relapse rates are extremely high when the drug is discontinued

Cognitive, biological, behavioral, and social problems associated with the use and abuse of caffeine

Cognitive, biological, behavioral, and social problems associated with the use and abuse of Cocaine

Psychoactive substances that result in behavioral sedation, including alcohol and the sedative, hypnotic. and anxiolytic drugs

Pattern of problems including learning difficulties, behavior deficits, and characteristic physical flaws, resulting from heavy drinking by the victims mother when she was pregnant with the victim

Any psychoactive substance such as LSD or marijuana that can produce delusions, hallucinatiuons, paranoia, and altered sensory perception

Cognitive, biological, behavioral, and social problems associated with the use and abuse of hallucinogenic substances

Disorders in which a person acts on an irresistible and potentially harmful impulse

A recurrent failure to resist urges to steal things that are not needed for personal use or their monetary value

Most common hallucinogenic drug; a synthetic version of the grain fungus ergot

Dried part of the hemp plant, a hallucinogen that is the most widely used illegal substance

Addictive psychoactive substances such as heroin, opium and morphine that cause temporary euphoria and analgesia (pain reduction)

Cognitive, biological, behavioral and social problems associated with the use and abuse of opiates and their synthetic variants

Presistent and recurrent maladaptive gambling behavior

Substances, such as drugs, that alter mood or behavior

An impulse-control disorder that involves having an irresistible urge to set fires

Psychoactive substances that elevate mood, activity, and alertness, including amphetamines, caffeine, cocaine, and nicotine

Pattern of psychoactive substance use leading to significant distress or impairment in social and occupational roles and hazardous situations

Maladaptive pattern of substance use characterized by the need for increased amounts to achieve the desired effect, negative physical effects when the substance is withdrawn, unsuccessful efforts to control its use, and substantial effort expended to seek it or recover from its effects

Range of problems associated with the use and abuse of drugs such as alcohol, cocaine, heroin, and other substances people use to alter the way the think, feel, and behave. These are extremely costly in human and financial terms

Need for increased amounts of a substance to achieve the desired effect, and a diminished effect with continued use of the same amount

The urge to pull out one's own hair from anywhere on the body, including scalp, eyebrowns, and arm

Severly negative physiological reaction to removal of a psychoactive substance which can be alleviated by the same or similar substance

Frightening hallucinations and body tremors that result when a heavy drinker withdraws from alcohol. Also known as delirium tremens.

Same as Withdrawal Ddelirium (frightening hallucinations & body tremors that result when a heavy drinker withdraws from alcohol)