Psychiatry

Psychiatry

The practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders

Contributors in Psychiatry

Psychiatry

Anton syndrome, occasionally known as Anton-Babinski syndrome, is a form of cortical blindness in which the patient denies the visual impairment. The patient may attempt to walk, bumping into objects ...

anwesenheit

Health care; Psychiatry

Anwesenheit refers to the feeling of presence of something or some person. It can be seen in normal grief reaction, schizophrenia and some emotionally arousing situations.

apophanous perception

Health care; Psychiatry

This is an alternate term for delusional perception. It is one of the Schneiderian first rank symptoms and is defined as a true perception, to which a patient attributes a false meaning. For example, ...

aphemia

Health care; Psychiatry

Aphemia is the alternate term for mutism. Mutism is absence of speech with apparently normal level of consciousness. Mutism can be dissociative (hysterical) in which an individual (commonly a child ...

apperception

Health care; Psychiatry

Apperception is a normal phenomenon and refers to the ability to undestand sensory inputs in their context, to interpret them and to incorporate them into experience. Failure of apperception is seen ...

astasia-abasia

Health care; Psychiatry

Astasia abasia is a form of dissociative disorder in which gait becomes impaired in absence of any neurological or physical pathology. The person usually walks in a bizarre manner. He staggers and ...

asyndesis

Health care; Psychiatry

Alternate term for Loosening of association. A milder form of derailment of thought, in which a person goes on jumping from one topic to another and there is little connection among the topics. This ...