Motor Disorders
Characterized by deficits in daily activities that require motor coordination, which may be manifested by marked delays in achieving motor milestones, or by clumsiness, poor performance in sports, or poor handwriting.
Developmental Coordination Disorder
Difficulty acquiring and using language due to deficits in comprehension or production, including limited vocabulary, limited sentence structure, and impairments in discourse. Diagnosis is likely to be stable over time and persist into adulthood.
Language Disorder
Criteria include an uninterrupted period of illness during which there has been a major mood episode (e.g., major depressive or manic) concurrent with the symptoms of schizophrenia.
Schizoaffective Disorder
This disorder is diagnosed when there is a depressed mood for most of the day, for more days than not, for at least two years. While depressed, the person experiences two or more of the following symptoms: change in appetite, insomnia or hypersomnia, low energy or fatigue, low self-esteem, poor concentration or difficulty making decisions, and feelings of hopelessness.
Persistent Depressive Disorder (Dysthymia)
Fantasies, urges, or behavior that involve cross-dressing, over a period of at least 6 months.
Transvestic Disorder
Hallmarked by motor behavior that is repetitive and nonfunctional (e.g., body rocking, head banging, self-biting) that interferes with normal activities or results in self-inflicted bodily injury.
Stereotypic Movement Disorder
A symptom of nerve or muscle damage. It manifests itself as slurred speech, slowed speech, limited tongue, jaw, or lip movement, abnormal rhythm and pitch when speaking, changes in voice quality, difficulty articulating, labored speech, and other related symptoms.
Dysarthria
Involves one or more delusions of at least one-month duration and an absence of additional symptoms found in schizophrenia (e.g., hallucinations, disorganized speech, disorganized or catatonic behavior, negative symptoms). Aside from the direct impact of the delusion, the person’s behavior is relatively unimpaired and is not obviously odd.
Delusional Disorder
Includes the presence of numerous periods of hypomanic symptoms and numerous periods of depressive symptoms. Criteria for a major depressive, manic, or hypomanic episode have never been met.
Cyclothymic Disorder
Fantasies, urges, or behavior that involve rubbing or touching a non-consenting person, over a period of 6 months.
Frotteuristic Disorder
Involves single or multiple motor and/or vocal tics present for less than one year since first tic onset.
Provisional Tic Disorder
Difficulty in phonology and articulation that interferes with intelligibility or prevents verbal communication (e.g., substituting one sound for another, omitting final consonants). Responds well to treatment, thus the disorder may not be lifelong.
Speech Sound Disorder
Symptoms are identical to schizophrenia, differing only in duration. This diagnosis is provided when the duration of the illness is at least one month, but less than six months. If the disturbance persists beyond six months, the diagnosis is changed to schizophrenia.
Schizophreniform Disorder
This disorder is diagnosed when in the majority of menstrual cycles, there are at least five symptoms present in the week before the onset of menses, symptoms start to improve within a few days after the onset of menses, and symptoms are minimal or absent in the week postmenses. At least one of the following must be present: marked affective lability, marked irritability or increased interpersonal conflict, marked depressed mood, or marked anxiety.
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
Fantasies, urges, or behavior that involve observing an unsuspecting person who is naked, disrobing, or engaging in sexual activity, over a period of at least 6 months. This individual is at least 18 years of age.
Voyeuristic Disorder
Involves single or multiple motor or vocal tics, but not both, present for more than one year since first tic onset.
Persistent (Chronic) Motor or Verbal Tic Disorder
Deficits in the social use of verbal and nonverbal communication. Involves deficits in communication for social purpose, changing communication to match context, taking turns during conversation, and understanding nonliteral and ambiguous meanings.
Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder
A single psychotic episode that lasts anywhere from one day to one month. Characterized by one or more of the following: delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, or grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior. There is an eventual return to premorbid levels of functioning.
Brief Psychotic Disorder
Diagnosed when there has been at least one major depressive episode and at least one hypomanic episode. Additionally, there has never been a manic episode.
Bipolar Disorder II
Fantasies, urges, or behavior that involve the act of being humiliated, beaten, bound, or made to suffer, over a period of 6 months.
Sexual Masochism Disorder
Involves multiple motor and one or more vocal tics. Must be present for more than one year since first tic onset.
Tourette's Disorder
Disturbance in the normal fluency and time patterning of speech, characterized by sound repetitions, interjections, broken words, blocking, circumlocutions, and monosyllabic whole-word repetitions.
Childhood-Onset Fluency Disorder
Requires the presence of two or more of the following characteristic symptoms, each present for a significant portion of time during a one-month period: delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, or grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior, and negative symptoms.
Schizophrenia
The essential feature is the occurrence of at least one manic episode that may be preceded or followed by a hypomanic or major depressive episode.
Bipolar Disorder I
Fantasies, urges, or behavior that involve sexual excitement resulting from the physical or psychological suffering of another person, over a period of at least 6 months.
Sexual Sadism Disorder