CONDITIONS/SYNDROMES
A person having more than two distinct identities, each with its own way to perceive the environment and self.
What is Multiple Personality Disorder or Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)?
The largest lobe of the brain, located in the front of the head, it's involved in personality characteristics, decision-making and movement. It contains Broca’s area, which is associated with speech ability.
What is the frontal lobe?
Treatments involved wrapping patients in either very hot or very cold, wet towels. Others received sprays from high powered jets of water. One psychological treatment that was widely accepted was for patients to be strapped for hours or days into a bathtub and only let out to use the bathroom.
What is Hydrotherapy?
comes from the second conjugation Latin verb habitum "to hold, possess, have, handle."
What is habit?
an experiential treatment and healing approach centered around the connection between humans and horses.
What is Equine therapy?
This is also known as the walking corpse syndrome where the sufferer believes that they are deceased, or dying and out of existence.
What is Cotard’s Delusion?
Small, almond-shaped structures, it is located under each half (hemisphere) of the brain. Included in the limbic system, it regulates emotion and memory and is associated with the brain’s reward system, stress, and the “fight or flight” response when someone perceives a threat.
What is the amygdala?
This now-obsolete treatment won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1949. It consisted of surgically cutting or removing the connections between the prefrontal cortex and frontal lobes of the brain. The procedure could be completed in five minutes.
What is Lobotomy?
comes from the Greek noun ὑστέρα "womb." The idea from the Hippocratic corpus was that this was caused by the wandering of the womb.
What is Hysteria?
involves repeatedly pairing an unwanted behavior with an unpleasant stimulus, such as an electrical shock. It is a form of behavioral therapy that is sometimes used to create an association between a behavior and discomfort.
What is Aversion Therapy?
characterized by purposeful but involuntary movement of the hands. Some patient claims that their hand will try to drown or stab them. Experts are still trying to find out how to cure the symptoms.
What is Alien Hand Syndrome?
Sometimes called the “master gland,” it is a pea-sized structure found deep in the brain behind the bridge of the nose. The pituitary gland governs the function of other glands in the body, regulating the flow of hormones from the thyroid and adrenals.
What is the Pituitary Gland?
In 1938, Italian neurologists Ugo Cerletti and Lucino Bini were the first to deliver electric shocks to patients to induce seizures.
What is electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)?
This word is built from two Greek words. The first part is άκρος, the Greek for "top," and the second part is from the Greek φόβος, fear.
What is Acrophobia?
involves using books and literature to gain insight into problems that a person might be facing in their own life.
What is Bibliotherapy?
Patients experience an irrational fear that a person they know is replaced by an imposter. They have this unshakeable delusion that the person that they use to know becomes suddenly unfamiliar.
What is Capgras Syndrome?
The sides of the brain, these lobes are involved in short-term memory, speech, musical rhythm and some degree of smell recognition.
What is the temporal lobe?
The practice boring a hole in the skull. Despite the potential for infection and the lack of anesthesia, this practice was at use in cultures all over the globe.
What is Trepanation?
comes from two Greek words. The first part of the English term comes from the Greek verb σχίζειν, "to split," and the second from φρήν, "mind."
What is Schizophrenia?
encourages people to express themselves through acting, theater, improvisation, and role-play.
What is Drama Therapy?
A neurological disorder where the patient has an overwhelming desire to surgically cut away a healthy body part.
What is Apotemnophilia?
This lobe is located the back part of the brain that is involved with vision.
What is the Occipital lobe?
prescribed drugs, like mercury, arsenic, and strychnine—now known to be poisonous—to induce vomiting and diarrhea and suggested fasting for two or three days.
What is Purging with Poison?
comes from the Greek noun ὑπνος "sleep." Hypnos was also the god of sleep.
What is hypnotism?
Involves using certain substances to aid in the psychotherapeutic process. Substances such as LSD, psilocybin, and MDMA are a few that are being explored for their potential therapeutic effects.
What is Psychedelic therapy?