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A blossary of mental disorders.

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A mental disorder, also called a mental illness or psychiatric disorder, is a mental or behavioral pattern or anomaly that causes either suffering or an impaired ability to function in ordinary life ...

Domain: Psychiatry; Category: Mental disorder

Amnesia is a deficit in memory caused by brain damage, disease, or psychological trauma. Amnesia can also be caused temporarily by the use of various sedatives and hypnotic drugs. Essentially, ...

Domain: Psychiatry; Category: Mental disorder

Anxiety disorders are a group of mental disorders characterized by feelings of anxiety and fear, where anxiety is a worry about future events and fear is a reaction to current events. These feelings ...

Domain: Psychiatry; Category: Mental disorder

Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impaired social interaction, verbal and non-verbal communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. The diagnostic criteria require ...

Domain: Psychiatry; Category: Mental disorder

Bipolar disorder, also known as bipolar affective disorder, manic-depressive illness, or affective psychosis, is a mental illness characterized by periods of elevated mood and periods of depression. ...

Domain: Psychiatry; Category: Mental disorder

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) (called emotionally unstable personality disorder, emotional intensity disorder, or borderline type in the ICD-10) is a cluster-B personality disorder, the ...

Domain: Psychiatry; Category: Mental disorder

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder often characterized by abnormal social behavior and results in failure to recognize the realities. Common symptoms include false beliefs (negative thoughts), ...

Domain: Psychiatry; Category: Mental disorder

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