Anxiety Disorders
Dissociative Disorders
Mood Disorders
Schizophrenic Disorders
Autistic Disorders
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People with this disorder worry constantly about yesterday's mistakes and tomorrow's problems. It is marked by a chronic, high level of anxiety that is not tied to any specific threat. Tends to have a gradual onset, has a lifetime prevalence of about 5%-6%, and is seen more frequently in females than males.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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A sudden loss of memory for important personal information that it too extensive to be due to normal forgetting. Memory losses may occur for a single traumatic event (automobile accident, home fire, etc.) or for an extending period of time surrounding the event.
What is Dissociative Amnesia
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A disorder in which people show persistent feelings of sadness and despair and a loss of interest in previous sources of pleasure. A central feature is anhedonia. People with this disorder often lack the energy or motivation to tackle to tasks of living, to the point where they often have trouble getting out of bed. Prevalence is twice as high in women than in men.
What is Major Depressive Disorder
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False beliefs that are maintained even though they clearly are out of touch with reality.
What are Delusions
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A disorder characterized by profound impairment of social interaction and communication and severely restricted interests and activities, apparent by the age of 3.
What is Autism
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An individual's troublesome anxiety has a specific focus. Disorder marked by a persistent and irrational fear of an object or situation that presents no realistic danger. For example, Hilda is terrified of snow and Mark fears heights.
What is Phobic Disorder
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People lose their memory for their entire lives along with their sense of personal identity. These people forget their name, their family, where they live, and where they work. In spite of this wholesale forgetting, they remember what matter unrelated to their identity, such as how to drive or car or how to do math.
What is Dissociative Fugue
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Disorder marked by the experience of both depressed and manic periods. In a manic period, a person's mood becomes elevated to the point of euphoria, however, mild manic episodes usually escalate to higher levels that become scary and disturbing. Affects roughly 1% of the population - seen equally in males and females and typical age of onset is in the late teens.
What is Bipolar Disorder
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Sensory perceptions that occur in the absence of a real, external stimulus or are gross distortions of perceptual input.
What are Hallucinations
200
Time range in which most parents typically become concerned about their child's development.
What is 15-18 Months
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Disorder characterized by recurrent attacks of overwhelming anxiety that usually occur suddenly and unexpectedly. Common complication of this disorder is agoraphobia (fear of going out to public places) because they fear they will suffer from an attack in public.
What is Panic Disorder
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This disorder involves the coexistence in one person of two or more largely complete, and usually very different personalities. Used to be referred to as multiple personality disorder. The various personalities generally report that they are unaware of the other identities. The disparities between these identities can be bizarre. It is more often seen in women than in men.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
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A tragic, heartbreaking problem associated with mood disorders; eleventh leading cause of death in the United States. About 60% of people that complete this have mood disorders. A recent example is Robin Williams.
What is Suicide
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Type of schizophrenia marked by striking motor disturbances, ranging from muscular rigidity to random motor activity. Patients can experience either catatonic stupor or catatonic excitement, sometimes alternating between the two.
What is Catatonic Type
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Prevalence estimates are approaching this percentage of the population because there has been a dramatic increase in the diagnosis of autism since the mid-1990s.
What is About 1%
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Disorder marked by persistent, uncontrollable intrusions of unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and urges to engage in senseless rituals (compulsions). Can be a particularly severe disorder and is often associated with serious social and occupational impairments. Occurs in roughly 2%-3% of the population.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
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Portion of one's life that Dissociative Identity Disorder is commonly linked to, where rejection and/or physical and sexual abuse occurred. In fact, this association is not unique to DID, but common in many disorders.
What is Childhood
400
Two neurotransmitters found in the brain that at abnormal levels have been correlated with mood disorders.
What are Norepinephrine and Serotonin
400
Type of schizophrenia that is dominated by delusions of perception, along with delusions of grandeur. Patients believe that they have many enemies who want to harass and oppress them, sometimes becoming suspicious of friends and family.
What is Paranoid Type
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A milder form of autism that used to go uncounted when diagnosing children with the disease.
What is Asperger's disorder
500
People with this disorder must endure psychological disturbance that is attributed to the experience of a major traumatic event. First recognized as a disorder in the 1970s in the aftermath of the Vietnam war. Often seen after harrowing war experiences, after a rape or assault, a severe automobile accident, a natural disaster, or the witnessing of someone's death. Symptoms include re-experiencing the event in the form of nightmares and flashbacks, emotional numbing, alienation, problems in social relations, an increased sense of vulnerability, and elevated arousal, anxiety, anger and guilt.
What is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
500
In several popular media portrayals, the disorder that Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is often mistakenly referred to as.
What is Schizophrenia
500
Part of the brain that is known to play a major role in memory consolidation, tends to be about 8%-10% smaller in depressed patients rather than in normal subjects.
What is the Hippocampus
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Type of schizophrenia characterized by a particularly severe deterioration of adaptive behavior. Prominent symptoms include emotional indifference, frequent incoherence, and virtually complete social withdrawal. Aimless babbling and giggling are common. Delusions often center on bodily functions.
What is Disorganized Type
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Particular brain structure that if damaged some studies suggest that autism may be like to, intimately involved in the processing of fear responses.
What is the Amygdala
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