PHM111
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| Adjunct | Medication used to compliment the effects of another drug
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| Antiemetic | A drug that reduces or stops vomiting
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| Antihypertensive | Agent that decreases blood pressure
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| Anxiety | Condition associated with tension, apprehension, fear, or panic
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| Anxiolytic | Medication used to treat anxiety
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| Attention deficit/Hyperactivity disorder | Brain disorder that affects the ability to focus one's attention
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| Ayurveda | Holistic traditional medical system where the prevention of disease is empasized
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| Bipolar Disorder | Illness associated with sudden swings in mood between depression and periods of insomnia, racing thoughts, distractibility, and increased goal-directed behavior
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| Blood Brain Barrier | Barrior that exists in the brain as a result of special permeability characteristic of the capillaries that supply brain cells; these capillaries prevent certain soulutes or chemicals from being tranferred from the blood to the brain.
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| Chiropractic | Manual manipulation of the joints and muscles
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| Cognition | Activities associated with thinking, learning, and memory
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| Depression | Mental state characterized by sadness, feelings of loss and grief, and loss of appetite; may include suicidal thoughts
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| Diagnosis | Physician's recognition of a condition or disease
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| Drug Dependence | Continuing to take the drug in order to avoid the onset of physical and/or psychological withdrawal symptoms
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| Electroconvulsive Therapy | Electrical current administred to an anesthetized patient, causing, a braif seizure
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| Enuresis | Bedwetting or uncontrollable urination during sleep
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| Extrapyramidal Symptoms | Excessive muscle movement associated with the use of neuroleptics
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| Generalized Anxiety Disorder | Condition associated with excessive worrying and tension that is experienced daily for more than 6 months
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| Herbal | Any plant substance used for health purposes
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| Homeopathy | System of therapy based on the brief that dilutions of medicinal substances that cause a specific symptom can be used to treat an illness
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| Insomnia | Condition characterized by difficulty falling asleep and/or staying asleep
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| Major Deperession | Illness associated with persistent feelings of sadness, emptiness, or hopelessness that persists.
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| Mania | Mood state characterized by excessive excitement, elevated mood, and exalted feelings
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| Monoamine Oxidase | Enzyme found in nerve terminals, neurons, liver and intestines that inactivate specific neurotransmitters and dietary amines
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| Mood Disorder | Affective disorder involving a change in emotional behavior
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| Neurosis | Mental disorder arising from stress or anxiety in the patient's environment without loss of contact with reality
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| Neurotransmitters | Chemicals that are transmitted from one neuron to another as electrical nerve impulses
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| Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder | Condition associated with an inability to or control or stop repeated unwanted thoughts or behaviors
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| Panic Disorder | Condition associated with repeated sudden onset of feelings of terror
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| Phobia | Irrational fear of things or situations that produce symptoms of intense anxiety
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| Placebo | Inert compound believed by the patient to be an active agent
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| Post-traumatic stress disorder | Disorder that develops in persons who have participated in, witnessed, or been a victim of a terrifying event
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| Prophylaxis | To prevent disease
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| Psychosis | Mental state characterized by disorganized behavior and thought, delusions, hallucinations, and a loss of touch with reality
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| Psychotherapy | Therapy that includee helping the patient work through personal problems that affect emotions and behaviors
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| Schizophrenia | Type of psychosis characterized by delusions of thought, visual and/or auditory hallucinations and speech disturbances
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| Serotonin Syndrome | Life threatening adverse drug reaction caused by excessive serotonin that produces symptoms of confusion, agitation, diarrhea, tumors, increased blood pressure and seizures
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| Synthetic Medicine | Medication made in a laboratory from chemical processes
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| Tardive Dyskinesia | Inappropriate postures of the neck, trunk and limbs accompanied by involuntary thrusting of the tongue
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| Tolerance | Condition occuring when increased doses of a drug are required in order to achieve the same effects as were achieved at lower doses
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