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| characterized by developmentally atypical inattention and/or impulsivity-hyperactivity |
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| A lack of responsiveness to others, gross impairment in communication skills, and repetitive behaviors. Often infelxibley routined and may display little facial expression |
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| a tic disorder characterized by multiple motor tics and one or more vocal tics that are sudden, recurrent, and stereotyped. |
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| Gross distortions of reality and disturbances in the content and form of thought, perception, and affect. |
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| behaviors, thoughts, or affects added to normal behaviors in schizophrenia, eg delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and disorganized or catatonic behavior. |
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| Those symptoms in schizophrenia that involve the absence of normal or desired behavior like flat affect. |
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| false beliefs, disocrdant with reality, that are maintained in spite of strong evidence to the contrary. |
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| perceptions that are not due to external stimuli but have a compelling sense of reality. They can occur in all sensory modalities but the most common is auditory |
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| characterized by loosening of associations. Can be exhibited as speech in which ideas shift from one subject to another without any clear association |
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| a disturbance in motor behavior. There is an alternation between extreme withdrawal of behavior and excitement or excessive movement. |
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| a preoccupation with one or more delusions or frequent audiotry hallucinations. There is a relative preservation of cognitive and affective functioning |
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| characterized by flat or inappropriate affect and disorganized speech and behavior |
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| undifferentiated schizophrenia |
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| the general criteria for the other categories are not met. |
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| Suggests that the delusions, hallucinationa, and agitation associated with the disorder arise from an excess of dopamine activity at certain sites in the brain |
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| as a child, the person with schizophrenia revived contradictory and mutually incompatible messages from his or her primary caregiver. |
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| Major Depressive Disorder |
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| Characterized by at least one major depressive episode. At least a two week period during which there is a prominent and relatively persistent depressed mood, loss of interest in activities, appetite disturbance, sleep disturbance, difficulty concentrating, thoughts of death |
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| Characterized by both mania and depression. Has full blown episodes of both |
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| doesn't quite meet the criteria fro MDD or bipolar but essentially characterized by less severe symptoms |
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| an irrational fear of something that results in a compelling desire to avoid it. |
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| anxiety that is due to social situations. These individuals have persistent fear when exposed to social/performance situations that may result in embarrassment. |
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| Obsessions and Compulsions |
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| involve the presence of physical symptoms that suggest a medical condition but which are not fully explained by a medical condition |
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| characterized by unexplained symptoms affecting voluntary motor or sensory functions EX paralysis when there is no neruological basis |
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| the person is preoccupied with fears that s/he has a serious disease. These fears are based on a misinterpretation of one or more body signs or symptoms. |
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| the person avoids stress by dissociating or escaping from his/her identiy |
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| characterized by an inability to recall past experience. The amnesia is not due to a neurological disorder |
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| Amnesia that accompanies a sudden unexpected move away from location of daily activities. Usually confused about identity and may even assume a new one |
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| Dissociative Identity Disorder |
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| Two or more personalities that recurrently take control of a person's behavior. |
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| Depersonalization disorder |
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| the person feels detached, like an outside observer but the person has an intact sense of reality |
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| characterized by a refusal to maintain a minimal normal body weight. Distorted body images and believes overweight even wen emancipated. |
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| binge eating accompanied by excessive attempts to compensate by purging, fasting, or excessive exercising. |
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| schizoid personality disorder |
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| a pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships and restricted range of emotional expression. People how little desire for social interaction. |
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| Narcissistic personality disorder |
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| a grandiose sense of self-importance or uniqueness, preoccupation with fantasies of success, and exhibitionistic need for constant admiration and attention, disturbances in interpersonal relationships such as feelings of entitlement |
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| borderline personality disorder |
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| behavior that shows features of personality disorder and severe psychological disorders. There is a pervasive instability in interpersonal behavior, mood, and self-image. Often intense fear of abandonment |
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| antisocial personality disorder |
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| a pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others |
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| Excessive stress operating on a person with a predisposition may lead to the development of a mental disorder. |
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