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| obsessive-compulsive disorder |
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| chronic, degenerative central nervous disorder characterized by fine muscle tremors, rigidity, and a slow shuffling gait |
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| Disorder of the nerves that carry information to and from the brain and spinal cord. Produces pain, the loss of sensation, and the inability to control muscles, particularly in the arms or legs |
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| posttraumatic stress disorder |
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| (PTSD) may develop after an event involving actual or threatened death or injury to the individual or someone else, during which the person felt intense fear, helplessness, or horror |
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potentially serious or deadly disorder in children that is characterized by vomiting and confusion
*Usually follows a viral illness in which the child was treated with aspirin |
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| psychotic disorder usually characterized by withdrawl from reality, illogical patterns of thinking, delusions, and hallucinations, and accompanied in varying degrees by other emotional, behavioral, or intellectual disturbances |
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| inflammation of the sciatic nerve that results in pain, burning, and tingling along the course of the affected sciatic nerve through the thigh, leg, and foot |
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| the results of a child being violently shaken by someone; can cause brain injury, blindness, fractures, seizures, paralysis, and death |
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| (fainting) brief loss of conciousness cuased by the decreased flow of blood to the brain |
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| disorder characterized by the repeated pulling out of one's own hair |
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| characterized by severe lightning-like pain due to an inflammation of the fifth cranial nerve |
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