Psychiatry

Psychiatry

The practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders

Contributors in Psychiatry

Psychiatry

Witzelsücht is a tendency to tell inappropriate joke and creating excessive facetiousness and inappropriate or pointless humor. It is seen in Frontal lobe disorders usually along with moria. Recent ...

abreaction

Health care; Psychiatry

Abreaction is an emotional release or discharge following recall of a painful experience. It's sometimes used sometimes by police, forensics after administering amobarbital.

abulia

Health care; Psychiatry

Aboulia or Abulia, in neurology, refers to a lack of will or initiative. The patient is unable to act or make decisions independently. It may range from subtle to overwhelming in severity.

achromatopsia

Health care; Psychiatry

Acquired agnosia for color or the loss of ability to recognize different colors, such as color blindness.

affect illusion

Health care; Psychiatry

Illusions or misperceptions associated with and/or based on changes with mood. For example, at midnight a person may take a shadow as a ghost, but in the early part of night this may not be the case.

akataphasia

Health care; Psychiatry

Akataphasia (Kraepelin 1896) refers to disorder of thought expression in speech and results due to dissolution of logical ordering of trains of thought.

akathisia

Health care; Psychiatry

Is a feeling of 'inner restlessness' often brought on as a side effect of anti-psychotic medication. People with akathisia have a desire to keep moving and are unable to keep still even though their ...