Anxiety that causes symptoms such as blindness, deafness or paralysis without a physical cause.
What is conversion?
100
Eating disorder with excessive dieting and refusal to maintain a normal body weight.
What is anorexia?
100
anxi/o
What is uneasy, anxious or distressed?
100
This suffix means: irrational and often disabling fear
What is -phobia?
100
These drugs lessen anxiety, tension and agitation especially associated with panic attacks.
What is Antianxiety or antipanic agents?
200
Fixed false beliefs that cannot be changed by logical reasoning or evidence.
What is delusions?
200
Anxiety related symptoms that appear after a personal experience of a traumatic event.
What is Postraumatic Stress Disorder?
200
hypn/o
What is sleep?
200
This suffix means: feeling or bearing
What is -phoria?
200
These drugs contain three fused rings in their chemical structure and disrupt neurotransmission at nerve endings to treat depression symptoms
What is tricyclic antidepressants?
300
Elevated state of hyperactivity, racing thoughts or talkativeness.
What is mania?
300
Anxiety disorder in which recurrent thoughts and repetitive acts dominate behavior.
What is obsessive compulsive disorder?
300
somat/o
What is body?
300
This suffix means: obsessive or preoccupation
What is -mania?
300
These drugs are used to treat schizophrenia, bipolar and other mental illnesses to reduce anxiety, tension, agitation and aggression.
What is antipsychotics?
400
Overly suspicious system of thinking, fixed delusion that one is being harassed, persecuted or unfairly treated.
What is paranoia?
400
Major psychiatric disorder with chronic sadness, loss of energy, hopelessness, worry, discouragement and suicidal impulses or thoughts.
What is depressive disorders?
400
phil/o
What is attraction to or love?
400
This suffix means: to seize or take hold of
What is -leptic?
400
These drugs are used to improve mood, mental concentration, physical activity and sleep patterns associated with depression.
What is Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors or SSRIs?
500
Uncomfortable thoughts that are split off from a person's conscious awareness to avoid mental distress.
What is dissociation?
500
Group of chronic psychotic disorders that include hallucinations, disorganized speech and behavior, flat affect and lack of initiative.
What is Schizophrenia?
500
iatr/o
What is treatment?
500
This suffix means: produced by
What is -genic?
500
These drugs are used to suppress an enzyme that normally breaks down neurotransmitters. Significant dietary restrictions are necessary to avoid adverse reactions to these drugs.