Psychiatry

Psychiatry

The practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders

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reduplicative paramnesia

Health care; Psychiatry

A misidentification in which the patient’s surroundings are believed to exist in more than one physical location.

reflex hallucination

Health care; Psychiatry

Is when a veridical perception in one modality produces a hallucination in another, e.g. seeing a doctor writing (visual) and then feeling him writing across one’s stomach (tactile).

restlessness

Health care; Psychiatry

Restlessness has two components: akathisia (subjective "inner" restlessness) and Psychomotor agitation (an excess of motor activity).

retardation

Health care; Psychiatry

Mental retardation is a term used when a person has certain limitations in mental functioning and in skills such as communicating, taking care of him or herself, and social skills. For children, ...

left-right disorientation

Health care; Psychiatry

Left-Right disorientation is one of the four cardinal signs of Gerstmann's syndrome.

Scanning speech is an ataxic dysarthria in which syllable durations are equalized. It is characteristic of the dysarthria of multiple sclerosis. Together with nystagmus and intention tremor it forms ...

schizophasia

Health care; Psychiatry

Schizophasia, or colloquially "word salad", is characterized by a patient's speech being an incoherent and incomprehensible mix of words and phrases. This occurs in schizophrenic patients.