Question | Answer |
a/kathis/ia | inability to remain calm |
an/hedon/ia | inability to experience pleasure |
amnesia | loss of memory |
confabulation | effort to conceal a gap in memory by fabrication detailed stories |
delirium | confused, unfocused, irrational agitation |
delusion | persistent belief in a demonstrable untruth |
ech/o/lalia | repetition of words or phrases |
somn/ambul/ism | sleepwalking |
hallucination | any unreal sensory oerception with no external cause |
illusion | inaccurate sensory perception based on a real stimulus |
dys/phor/ia | generalized negative mood |
eu/phor/ia | exaggerated sense of physical and emotional well-being not based on reality |
eu/thymia | normal range of moods/emotions |
Asperger disorder | impairment of social interaction, repetitiive patters of inappropriate behavior |
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder | impulsiveness, inability to concentrate, and short attention span |
autism | abnormal development of social interaction, impaired communication, and repetitive behaviors |
Rett disorder | initial functioning is normal and then progressively loses social and intellectual functioning |
Tourette syndrome | behaviors that include vocalization of words or sounds and repetitive movements |
delirium tremens | sometimes fatal delirium incuded by alcohol |
withdrawl state | symptoms that occur when drugs are stopped being taken |
bi/pol/ar disorder | elevation or lowering of mood |
cycl/o/thymia | recurring episodes of elation and depression that are NOT severe enough to be bipolar disorder |
dys/thymia | mild, chronic depression |
hypo/mania | inappropriate elevation of mood |
acro/philia | fear of heights |
agora/philia | fear of leaving home/being in croweded area |
anthrop/o/phobia | fear of scrutiny of others |
claustr/o/phobia | fear of enclosed spaces |
panic disorder | unpredicatable panic attacks |
posttraumatic stress disorder | extended emotional response to a past situation |
an/orex/ia nervosa | refusal to eat adequate amounts of food |
bulimia nervosa | purges the body through selfinduced vomiting or imappropriate use of laxatives |
paranoid personality | inappropriately suspicious thinking |
schizoid personality disorder | patient withdrawls into a fantasy world |
klept/o/mania | uncontrollable impuse to steal |
pyr/o/mania | uncontrollable impule to set fires |
trich/o/till/o/mania | uncontrollable impulse to pull one's hair out by the roots |
ped/o/plil/ia | sexual preference: children |
sadomasochism | sexual preference: humiliation / pain |
behavioral therapy | therapeutic attempt to alter an undesired behavior |
cognitive therapy | wide variety of treatment techniques that attempt to alter inaccurate or unhealthy ways |
psych/o/ana/lysis | developed by Freud to analyze and treat dysfunctional effects of unconcious factors |