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Psychiatry
The branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental and emotional disorders.
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cryptomania
Psychiatry; Mental disorder
Cryptomania is a pathological striving to hide intents and thoughts, to do many things in secret, to exercise encryptions while writing, to cover all parts of body, to conceal ...
curebie
Psychiatry; Mental disorder
A derogatory term used by members of the Aspergers Rights Movement to denigrate people who support the search for a cure to aspergers and the autism spectrum. Members of the ARM ...
aftercare
Psychiatry; Mental disorder
Long-term surveillance as an adjunct or supplement to formal medical treatment of those who are chronically sick.
rapid cycling
Psychiatry; Mental disorder
In DSM-IV TR, specific course of Bipolar I Disorder I or Bipolar II Disorder signifying at least four mood episodes of major depression, mania, mixed mania, or hypomania during ...
psychotic
Psychiatry; Mental disorder
Medical term that tries to make a state of mind into a disease. Describes a person experiencing hallucinations, or so-called delusions that may seem misguided to someone who ...
Down syndrome
Psychiatry; Mental disorder
Down syndrome (DS) or Down's syndrome, also known as trisomy 21, is a genetic disorder caused by the presence of all or part of a third copy of chromosome 21. It is typically ...
dyslexia
Psychiatry; Mental disorder
Dyslexia, or developmental reading disorder, is characterized by difficulty with learning to read fluently and with accurate comprehension despite normal or above-average ...
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- Addiction (26)
- Mental disorder (398)
- Phobias (3906)