Disorders
A disorder characterized by anxiety that persists for a long time and interferes with daily living.
Anxiety Disorder
Fear caused by a source you cannot identify or a source that doesn’t pose as much threat as you think.
Anxiety
A physician who can diagnose and treat mental disorders.
Psychiatrist
A place in the body where two or more bones meet.
Joint
The basic unit of the nervous system that carries nerve impulses.
Neuron
A disorder characterized by extreme emotions.
Mood Disorder
Anxiety that is related to a specific situation or object.
Phobia
A physician who treats physical disorders of the nervous system.
Neurologist
An injury that occurs when the ends of the bones in a joint are forced out of their normal positions.
Dislocation
The area of the brain between the cerebellum and the spinal cord; it controls automatic functions such as heartbeat and blood pressure.
Brain Stem
A mental disorder characterized by rigid patterns of behavior, which make it difficult for a person to get along with others.
Personality Disorder
An emotional state in which a person feels extremely sad and hopeless.
Depression
A mental health professional who is trained to recognize and treat behavior that is not normal.
Clinical Psychologist
A tough, supportive tissue that is softer and more flexible than bone.
Cartilage
An episode of erratic nerve impulses in the brain that may lead to loss of consciousness, muscle spasms, and other uncontrollable symptoms.
Seizure
A mental disorder that reveals itself through abnormal behaviors related to food.
Eating Disorder
A disorder characterized by severe disturbances in thinking, mood, awareness, and behavior.
Schizophrenia
A mental health professional who helps people with mental disorders and their families to accept and adjust to an illness.
Psychiatric Social Worker
The process during infancy and childhood in which cartilage is replaced by bone.
Ossification
A part of the brain that coordinates movement and balance.
Cerebellum
An eating disorder in which a person regularly has an uncontrollable urge to eat large amounts of food, without purging.
Binge Eating Disorder
An unreasonable need to behave in a certain way to prevent feared outcomes.
Compulsion
A physician that treats and diagnoses issues with the heart.
Cardiologist
A condition in which a significant loss of bone mass causes bone to become weak and break easily.
Osteoporosis
A part of the brain that contains several specialized regions that receive messages from sense organs, and control movement, memory, communication, and reasoning.
Cerebrum