Trauma to the Brain
After a blow to the head, you might have a what?
Cerebral concussion
Excessive preoccupation with fire
Pyromania
Inflammation of the brain
Encephalitis
What is involved in a psychobiological response?
Fear of spiders
Arachnophobia
Recurrent episodes of convulsive seizures
Epilepsy
What is the medical term for having a "big ego"?
Megalomaniac
What is the combining form of meninges?
mening/o
What is a false or pretended mental disorder
Pseudomania
What is Agoraphobia
Fear of public places
Bruising of the brain as a result of head injury
Cerebral contusion
Anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent and persistent thoughts, ideas, feelings.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
What is encephalomeningitis?
Inflammation of the brain and meninges
persistent delusions of persecution, mistrust, and combativeness.
Paranoia
Fear of being in confined spaces
Claustrophobia
Result of an injured blood vessel in the brain
Cerebral Hemorrage
Medical jargon for split personality
Dissociative disorder
Inflammation of the bone marrow or spinal cord
myelitis
ADHD
Explain Acrophobia
Irrational fear of heights
Herniation of the meninges through a defect in the skull or vertebral column`
meningocele
Gross distortion of reality, hallucination, and disorganized or catatonic behavior
Schizo-phrenia
what is neuritis
inflammation of a nerve
Symptoms: chronic personality disintegration, confusion, disorientation, and deterioration of intellectual capacity and function.
Dementia
What is an abnormal fear of acquiring a phobia called?
Phobophobia