Question | Answer |
(MR) Mental Retardation | Condition of subaverage intellectual ability, with impairments in social and educational functioning |
-ia | condition |
-iatrist | one who specializes in treatment |
-ism | condition |
-ism | process, condition |
-lalia | condition of babbling |
-mania | condition of madness |
-osis | abnormal condition |
-phobia | condition of fear |
-thymia | condition of the mind |
acrophobia | fear of heights |
ADHD | Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A condition mainly in children demonstrated by hyperactivity, and inability to concentrate, and impulsive behavior. |
agoraphobia | fear of crowds |
akathisia | Inability to remain calm, still, and free of anxiety |
ambul/o | walking |
amnesia | inability to remember information (typically, all events within a specific period), usually due to physiological trauma |
anthropophobia | social phobia |
anxiety | Uneasiness; a feeling of impending doom |
APA | American Psychiatric Association |
Asperger disorder | impairment in social interaction. |
autism | a disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication, social interaction, and understanding of others' states of mind |
blunted affect | moderately reduced range of affect |
BP | bipolar disorder: swings between hypomania and mania and activity |
catatonia | paralysis or immobility from psychological or emotional rather than physical causes |
claustrophobia | fear of enclosed spaces |
confabulation | act of filling in memory gaps |
cyclothamia | swings that are not as severe as bipolar disorder |
defense mechanism | An unconscious way of reducing anxiety by distorting perceptions of reality examples are denial and projection |
delirium tremens (DTs) | a disorder involving sudden and severe mental changes or seizures caused by abruptly stopping the use of alcohol |
delirium | confused thinking and disrupted attention usually accompanied by distorted speech and hallucinations, incoherence, illusions, and fear |
delusion | false personal belief that is maintained despite obvious proof or evidence to the contrary |
delusion | persistant belief in an untruth |
dementia | a slowly progressive decline in mental abilities, including memory, thinking, and judgment, that is often accompanied by personality changes |
dependence syndrome | difficulty in controlling use of a drug |
DSM | Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders |
dysphoria | a restless, dissatisfied mood characterized by depression |
dysthymia | mild, chronic depression |
echo- | reverberating sound |
echolalia | repetition of words or phrases spoken by others |
eu- | good, well |
euphoria | feeling of complete well-being, great happiness, bliss |
euthymia | normal range of moods and emotions |
flat affect | the diminishment or loss of emotional expression sometimes observed in schizophrenia, mental retardation, and some depressive disorders |
full/wide range of affect | generally appropriate emotional response |
GAD | generalized anxiety disorder |
hallucination | any unreal sensory perception based on a real stimulus: examples include mirages and interpreting music or wind voices |
hypomania | inappropriate elevation of mood |
iatr/o | treatment |
illusion | (n) a false idea; something that one seems to see or to be aware of that really does not exist |
illusion | inaccurate sensory perception based on a real stimulus |
labile affect | multiple, abrupt changes in affect seen in certain types of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder |
libido | an insistent, instinctual force that is unresponsive to the demands of reality; the primary source of motivation |
OCD | obsessive compulsive disorder |
ODD | Oppositional defiant disorder, an example of a conduct disorder, characterized by hostile, disobdient behavior |
PD | panic disorder |
phil/o | attraction |
phor/o | to carry, to bear |
psych/o, thym/o, phren/o | mind |
psychosis | loss of contact with reality, most often evidenced as delusions or hallucinations. |
PTSD | posttraumatic stress disorder |
Rett disorder | condition characterized by initial normal functioning followed by loss of social and intellectual functioning |
somn/o | sleep |
somnambulism | sleepwalking |
stupor | dulled state of mind or senses |
tolerence | a capacity for enduring a large amount of substance without adverse effects. |
Tourette Syndrome | involuntary, spasmodic, twitching movements; uncontrollable vocal sounds; and inappropriate words |
toxic/o | poison |
withdrawal state | group of symptoms that occurs during the cessation of the use of a regularly taken drug |