Psychiatry

Psychiatry

The practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders

Contributors in Psychiatry

Psychiatry

A hormone, also called 5-hydroxytryptamine, in the pineal gland, blood platelets, the digestive tract, and the brain. Serotonin acts both as a chemical messenger that transmits nerve signals between ...

lithium

Health care; Psychiatry

•Lithium is a soft, silver-white metal that belongs to the alkali metal group of chemical elements. It is represented by the symbol Li, and it has the atomic number 3. Under standard conditions it is ...

neurasthenia

Health care; Psychiatry

Neurasthenia is a psycho-pathological term first used by George Miller Beard in 1869 to denote a condition with symptoms of fatigue, anxiety, headache, neuralgia and depressed mood.

libido

Health care; Psychiatry

A Freudian term for sexual urge or desire.

somnambulism

Health care; Psychiatry

A sleep disorder belonging to the parasomnia family. Sleepwalkers arise from the slow wave sleep stage in a state of low consciousness and perform activities that are usually performed during the ...

nervous system

Health care; Psychiatry

An organ system containing a network of specialized cells called neurons that coordinate the actions and transmit signals between different parts of the body. The nervous system consists of two ...