Psychiatry

Psychiatry

The practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders

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sadness

Psychology; Psychiatry

An emotion characterized by feelings of disadvantage, loss, helplessness, sorrow, and rage. When sad, people often become outspoken, less energetic, and emotional.

anger

Psychology; Psychiatry

An emotion related to one's perception of having been offended or wronged and a tendency to undo that wrongdoing by retaliation

instructions for use

Biotechnology; Biochemistry

"a manual usually accompanying a technical device and explaining how to install or operate it" Essential Requirements - Medical Device Directive 93/42/EEC - Annex I, 13.1: Each device must be ...

description

Biotechnology; Biochemistry

description a statement presenting something in words, from verb describe

People with this disease suffer from compulsive tics which can be everything from simple facial movements to vocal tics. In the latter case, the patient is unable to control the sounds and words that ...

foreign accent syndrome

Health care; Psychiatry

There are 50 cases located in the world of this rare disorder that arises when multiple connections to the control centers of language in the left brain are damaged. Some patients produce a pattern ...

hemispheric neglect

Health care; Psychiatry

Is the deterioration of the visual centers of one side of the brain that causes that the patient only see half of the things. These patients only eat, for example, the left side of the dish, write on ...