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dissociative identity disorder
dissociative identity disorder see multiple personality . ... Read more
anorexia nervosa
anorexia nervosa see eating disorders . ... Read more
neurosis
neurosis in psychiatry, a broad category of psychological disturbance, encompassing various mild forms of mental disorder. Until fairly recently, the term neurosis was broadly employed in contrast with psychosis, which denoted much more severe, debilitating mental disturbances. The two terms were u... Read more
psychiatry
psychiatry , branch of medicine that concerns the diagnosis and treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders, including major depression , schizophrenia , and anxiety . Although the Greeks recognized the significance of emotions in mental disorders, medieval thought emphasized demonic... Read more
multiple personality
multiple personality a very rare psychological disorder in which a person has two or more distinct personalities, each with its own thoughts, feelings, and patterns of behavior. The personalities often are direct opposites and dominate at different times, with abrupt transitions triggered by distre... Read more
post-traumatic stress disorder
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), mental disorder that follows an occurrence of extreme psychological stress, such as that encountered in war or resulting from violence, childhood abuse, sexual abuse, or serious accident. The stressful event is usually followed by a period of emotional numbnes... Read more
eating disorders
eating disorders in psychology, disorders in eating patterns that comprise four categories: anorexia nervosa, bulimia, rumination disorder, and pica. Anorexia nervosa is characterized by self-starvation to avoid obesity. People with this disorder believe they are overweight, even when their bodies ... Read more
schizophrenia
schizophrenia , group of severe mental disorders characterized by reality distortions resulting in unusual thought patterns and behaviors. Because there is often little or no logical relationship between the thoughts and feelings of a person with schizophrenia, the disorder has often been called "... Read more
manic-depressive disorder
MANIC-DEPRESSIVE DISORDER [manic-depressive disorder] or bipolar disorder, severe mental disorder involving manic episodes that are usually accompanied by episodes of depression . The term was introduced by the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin in 1896. The manic phase of the disorder ... Read more
disease
disease impairment of the normal state or functioning of the body as a whole or of any of its parts. Some diseases are acute, producing severe symptoms that terminate after a short time, e.g., pneumonia; others are chronic disorders, e.g., arthritis, that last a long time; and still others return p... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "thought disorder"

Conversion Disorder
Encyclopedia entry from: Complete Human Diseases and Conditions Conversion Disorder Conversion disorder is a psychological condition...Symptoms of conversion disorder often begin after some stressful...have traditionally been thought of as an expression of emotional...reference sources Factitious disorder Hysteria Malingering Munchausen...people with ... Read more
Rumination disorder
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders ...causes of rumination disorder. In infants, it is thought to be caused by...years. Rumination disorder is rare and thought to occur more often...Treatment for rumination disorder depends on the cause...Infants who are thought to ruminate because... Read more
Rett's disorder
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders ...disorder of childhood. Rett's disorder is characterized by an early-ons...quite rare. Although RS was thought at first to result from...brain development. Rett's disorder has a distinctive onset...mutation that causes Rett's disorder allows other genes to become...functions. Although Rett's ... Read more
Psychosocial Personality Disorders
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy through Adolescence ...major categories of mental disorders thought to involve significant...include: Substance-related disorders. Disorders related to alcohol...had a diagnosable mental disorder associated with at least...majority of psychological disorders are thought to be caused by a ... Read more
Seasonal Affective Disorder
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine ...Definition Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a form of depression...causes seasonal affective disorder, they suspect that it has...melatonin . Melatonin is thought to play an active role in...Although seasonal affective disorder is most common when light...natural. Seasonal affective ... Read more
Developmental coordination disorder
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders ...developmental coordination disorder. There are, however, various...Some theories attribute the disorder to biological causes. Some...weight or prematurity are thought to be possible causes, but...developmental coordination disorder. Males and females are thought to be equally likely to have ... Read more
Childhood disintegrative disorder
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders ...all cases. Research is hampered by the rarity of this disorder. Symptoms Children with CDD have at least two years...the Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders , virtually all children with CDD lose speech and social...common than autism. About 1 in 100,000 children are thought to have ... Read more
Impulse-control disorders
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders Impulse-control disorders Definition Impulse-control disorders are psychological disorders characterized by the repeated inability to refrain...to oneself or others. Description Impulse-control disorders are thought to have both neurological and environmental causes...mental health ... Read more
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy through Adolescence ...Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is a childhood mental disorder characterized by a pattern of angry, antagonistic...not meet the clinical diagnostic criteria for conduct disorder . Description Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), a relatively new clinical classification, involves...occurrence ... Read more
Schizotypal personality disorder
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders ...schizotypal personality disorder has odd behaviors and thoughts that would typically...illusions. These thought patterns are...Schizotypal personality disorder is believed to...Suspicious or paranoid thoughts. Individuals...schizotypal personality disorder are often suspicious... Read more

Dictionary entries related to "thought disorder"

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD) is a psychological condition, affecting people...years. Features of PTSD include intrusive memories or thoughts about the event, efforts to avoid thinking about the event...Books, 1997. Livesley, W. John. The DSM-IV Personality ... Read more
psychosis
Book article from: A Dictionary of Nursing ...reality. The psychoses include schizophrenia, major disorders of affect (see bipolar affective disorder ), major paranoid states, and organic mental disorders. Psychotic disorders may feature delusions, hallucinations, severe thought disturbances, abnormal alteration of mood, poverty of... Read more
unhinge
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English un·hinge / ˌənˈhinj / • v. [ tr. ] 1. [usu. as adj. ] ( unhinged ) make (someone) mentally unbalanced: I thought she must be unhinged by grief. ∎  deprive of stability or fixity; throw into disorder. 2. take (a door) off its hinges. Read more
schizophrenia
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...frēnēə; -ˈfrenēə / • n. a long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings... Read more
obsession
Book article from: A Dictionary of Nursing obsession (ŏb- sesh -ŏn) n. a recurrent thought, feeling, or action that is unpleasant and provokes anxiety...Obsessions are a feature of obsessive–compulsive disorder ( OCD , formerly known as obsessional neurosis ); they... Read more
Prozac
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...of depression and other psychological disorders. These drugs work by increasing the amount of serotonin, a neurotransmitter thought to be involved in the biochemical mechanism...depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder, it soon became common for physicians...Prozac for eating, anxiety, and panic ... Read more
Chediak-Higashi syndrome
Book article from: A Dictionary of Nursing ...causing enlargement of the liver and spleen, albinism, and abnormalities of the eye. The cause is unknown but thought to be due to a disorder of glycolipid metabolism. [ A. Chediak (20th century), Cuban physician; O. Higashi (20th century), Japanese... Read more
mania
Book article from: A Dictionary of Nursing ...activity. The mood is euphoric and changes rapidly to irritability. Thought and speech are rapid to the point of incoherence and the connections...such as lithium or phenothiazines. See also bipolar affective disorder . — manic ( man -ik) adj. Read more
gene imprinting
Book article from: A Dictionary of Biology ...symptoms of Huntington's disease, an inherited neuromuscular disorder caused by a dominant mutant allele, first occur during adolescence...female parent. At least some instances of gene imprinting are thought to be associated with the attachment of methyl groups to certain... Read more
delirium
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...acutely disturbed state of mind that occurs in fever, intoxication, and other disorders and is characterized by restlessness, illusions, and incoherence of thought and speech. ∎  wild excitement or ecstasy. ORIGIN: mid 16th cent... Read more

Thesaurus entries related to "thought disorder"

reasoning
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus reasoning • noun  it is a neurological disorder that results in impaired memory and reasoning synonyms : thinking, reason, thought, train of thought, thought process, logic, analysis, interpretation, explanation... Read more
psychic
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English psychic • adjective   1. people thought to be psychic synonyms : clairvoyant, telepathic, telekinetic...otherworldly, paranormal, occult.   3. psychic analysis/disorder synonyms : spiritual, mental, psychological, psychogenic. Read more
trouble
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...work, labor; pains, care, attention, thought.   4. Rodney has been no trouble...sickness, ailments, complaints, problems; disorder, disability.   7. the crash was...crowd trouble synonyms : disturbance, disorder, unrest, unruliness, fighting, fracas... Read more

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Intrusive Thoughts in Clinical Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment.(INTERNAL MEDICINE, PSYCHIATRY)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: SciTech Book News; 6/1/2005; 112 words ; ...1-59385-083-2 Intrusive thoughts in clinical disorders; theory, research, and treatment...35.00 Unwanted intrusive thoughts (UIT)--worry, daydreaming...growing number of clinical disorders in which UIT play a contributing...including post- traumatic stress disorder, depression, insomnia ... Read more
Disorder means food for thought.
Newspaper article from: Brighouse Echo (Brighouse, England); 1/7/2007; 700+ words ; COELIAC disease is now one of the most common disorders in the UK - at least one in 100 people have it - but many...talking about, she laughs. Initially I was frightened because I thought it sounded like it was something contagious. When 53-year-o... Read more
Thoughts on psychological debriefings: a noted authority on psychological debriefings cautions against "throwing the debriefing baby out with the reactionary bath water" in the debate over post-traumatic stress disorder.(Employee Assistance Programs)
Magazine article from: The Journal of Employee Assistance; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...debriefings prevent post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). That is certainly a naive notion...any type will not suffice to manage the disorder. A multi-modal approach of talk therapy...usually is required to deal with the disorder over an extended period of time. Some... Read more
Food for thought.(body talk)(symptoms and causes of eating disorders such as bulimia)(healthy eating guildelines for ballet dancers)
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine; 9/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...other than hunger (feeling bored, feeling sad, etc.). Disordered eating may begin as a diet, then gets out of control...American Psychiatric Association, the most common eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder. Don't try to diagnose yourself; this is serious ... Read more
The creepy-crawlies of summer: just when you thought it was safe to start your vacation ...(DISEASE & DISORDERS)
Magazine article from: Current Health 2, a Weekly Reader publication; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; Spring has sprung! The birds are singing and the grass is green. Soon nothing will be left of those nasty winter colds and sore throats but a distant, unpleasant memory. But there's bad news on the health horizon: Summer's on the way. When the mercury rises, so does your risk of contracting a Read more
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in adults: review of an article.(American Academy of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry)
Magazine article from: The Exceptional Parent; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; It has long been thought that adult attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder did not continue beyond...disorders, anxiety, depressive disorders, and bipolar disorders have ADHD. Conversely, in...which exist as part of the disorder might be misinterpreted...major depression, bipolar ... Read more
Co-occurring alcohol use disorder and schizophrenia.
Magazine article from: Alcohol Research & Health; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is the most common co-occurring disorder in people with schizophrenia. Both...factors and psychosocial factors are thought to contribute to this co-occurrence...a severe and disabling psychiatric disorder characterized by persistent delusions...Association [APA] 1994). ... Read more
Women & posttraumatic stress disorder.
Newspaper article from: National Women's Health Report; 2/1/2008; 610 words ; ...words posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) bring to mind battle-scarr...the last 15 to 20 years, we thought of PTSD as battle fatigue...president and CEO of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA...combat. As with other anxiety disorders, women are more likely than...resulting in ... Read more
Women and PTSD.(posttraumatic stress disorder)(Report)
Magazine article from: Parish Nurse Perspectives; 6/22/2008; 627 words ; ...Health Report: Women & Anxiety Disorders If the words posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) bring to mind battle-scarred...Until the last 15 to 20 years, we thought of PTSD as battle fatigue, said Jerilyn...president and CEO of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA). Today...men is ... Read more
Borderline Personality Disorder.(Pamphlet)
Newspaper article from: Pamphlet by: National Institute of Mental Health; 1/8/2001; 700+ words ; ...answers Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a serious mental...self-identity. Originally thought to be at the borderline...people with BPD suffer from a disorder of emotion regulation. While...disorder, depression, anxiety disorders, substance abuse, and other personality ... Read more