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| proposes that it is useful to think of abnormal behavior as a disease |
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| manifestations of disease |
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| distinguishing one illness from another |
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| the apparent causation and developmental history of an illness |
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| forecast about the probable course of an illness |
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| the study of the distribution of metal or physical disorders in a population |
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| refers to the percentage of a population that exhibits a disorder during a specified time period |
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| class of disorders marked by feelings of excessive apprehension and anxiety |
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| Generalized anxiety disorder |
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| marked by chronic, high level of anxiety that is not tied to any specific threat |
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| marked by a persistent and irrational fear of an object or situation that presents no realistic danger |
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| characterized by recurrent attacks of overwhelming anxiety that usually occur suddenly and unexpectedly |
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| fear of going out to public places |
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| Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) |
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| makred by persistent, uncontrollable intrusions of unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and urges to engage in senseless rituals (compulsions) |
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| Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) |
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| involves enduring psychological disturbance attributed to the experience of a major traumatic event |
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| indicates the percentage of twin pairs or other pairs of relatives who exhibit the same disorder |
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| chemicals that carry signals from one neuron to another |
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| physical ailments that cannot be fully explained by organic conditions and are largely due to psychological factors |
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| marked by a history of diverse physical complaints that appear to be psychological in origin |
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| characterized by a significant loss of physical function (with no apparent organic basis), usually in a single organ system |
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| class of disorders in which people lose contact with portions of their consciousness or memory, resulting in disruptions of their sense of identity |
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| sudden loss of memory for important personal information that is too extensive to be due to normal forgetting |
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| people lose their memory for their entire lives along with their sense of personal identity |
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| class of disorders marked by emotional disturbances of varied kinds that may spil over to disrupt physical, perceptual, social, and thought processes |
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| passive "giving up" behavior produced by exposure to unavoidable aversive events |
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| false beliefs that are maintained even though they clearly are out of touch with reality |
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