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| Observable facial expressions of a feeling or emotion. Patients may be described as having a flat or blunt affect. |
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Inability to recognize the import of sensory impressions despite being able to recognize the elemental sensation of the stimulas. Language deficts must be absent for this diagnosis.
Specific sensory agnosias can occur when the connections are disrupted between the primary cortical receptor region for a stimulus and the memory of prior stimuli. for example the inability to recognize familiar objects by sight or touch |
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| A mental disorder characterized by an irrational fear of leaving the familiar setting of home or venturing into the open often associated with panic attacks. commonly referred as fear of the marketplace. |
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| A step by step approach to treatment based upon controlled clinical trials. |
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| Absence of speech because of a mental illness |
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| AMBIGUOUS HAND PREFERENCE |
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| Abence of a dominant hand preference. the switching of hands within the same activity |
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| A structure that is part of the libbic system and is involved in the emotions of aggression and fear. |
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Localized abnormal dilatation of the wall of the blood vessel, usually an artery or in the heart, resulting in the formation of a sac.
Usual causes are the weakness of the vessel wall resulting from atherosclerosis or a congenital defect. However any injury to the middle or muscular layer of the arterial wall can predispose the stretching of the vessel wall. |
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| Inability to name objects |
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| Anticholinergic side effect |
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| Most commonly dry mouth or constipation |
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| Medication designed to reduce positive and negitive system. |
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| Apprehension of a danger and dread accompanied by restlessness, tention, tachycardia, and dyspnea unattached to a clearly identifiable stimulas |
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| A sedative or mild tranquilizer used to treat anxiety or acohol withdrawal |
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| An absense or supression of emotion, feeling, or concern |
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| Difficulty with expressive and/or receptive language |
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| Loss of skilled purposeful movement that cannot be attributed to deficits in primary motor skills or problems in comprehension. It can affect ideation and concept formation as well as programming and planning of movement |
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| Referring both to an artery and a vein. AVM " adnormal amount of blood vessel near surface of brain" |
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| Pathological inhalation of food or mucusinto the respiratory tract. |
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| An abnormal mass of fatty or lipid material with a fibrous covering, which forms a discrete raised plaque within the inner layer (intima) of an artery. |
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| A widespread form of arteriosclerosis in which deposits of plaques (atheromas) containing cholesterol andother lkipid material are formed within the inner layer (intima) of large and medium sized arteries. |
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| A neurobiologic disorder with an unknown etiology, characterized by significant delay or deviation in social interaction, communication, and repetitive or stereotyped behaviors. |
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| Autonomic dysreflexia (hyperreflexia) |
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| An uninhibited and exaggerated relex of the autonomic nervous system to stimulation. |
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| Dorsiflexion (extension) of the great toe and outspreading of the outer toes when the sole of the food is stroked. |
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| Slowness of all voluntary movement and speech. |
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| Passage of a catheter into a body channel or cavity, expecially introduction of a catheter via the urethra into the urinary bladder. |
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| Childhood disintegrative disorder |
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| A rare neurobiologic disorder that develops in children who had appeared completely normal during their first few years of life. |
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| The use of pantomime, nonverbal communication, or word substitution to avoid revealing an inability to say or remember a word. |
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| "uncontrollable impulses to perform an act, often repetitively, as an unconscious mechanism to avoid anacceptable ideas and desires which, by themselves, arouse anxiety; the anxiety becomes fully manifest if performance off the compulsive act is prevented; may be associated with obsessive thoughts." |
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| Literal interpretation of words without understanding abstract meanings. |
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| Apraxia caused by loss of visuospatial skills; for example, difficulty drawing a clock face. |
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| Use of manual pressure on the bladder to express urine, particularly in bladder training for individuals with aralysis. |
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| Characterized by a chronic course of hypomania and mild depression, this disorder presents as a mild form of bipolar disorder (BPD). |
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| An ulcer caused by local interference with the circulation, usually occurring over a bony prominence at the sacrum, hip (trochanter), heel,shoulder, or elbow. |
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| An X-shaped crossing, especially of nerves or bands of nerve fibers, connecting parts on opposite sides of the brain or spinal cord. |
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| Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) |
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| A thrombosis, commonly seen in the legs or pelvis, that results from phlebitis, vein injury, or prolonged bed rest. |
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| Self-inflated views usually present in conversation. |
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| Individuals have consistent and organized beliefs about other people intending to harm them. |
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| Destruction, removal, or loss of the myelin sheath of a nerve or nerves. |
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| A person who had diabetes is at increased risk for slow-healing injuries to distal extremities. |
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| The pressure in the arteries when the heart is at rest. |
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| Paralysis of like parts on either side of the body. |
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| Loss of inhibition, or the cultural and social sense of self restraint. |
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| The automatic and emaningless repetitionof another's words or phrases. |
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| Electroconvulsive therapy |
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| The record obtained during the amplification, recording, and subsequent analysis of the electrical activity of the brain using an instrument called an electroencephalograph. |
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| The destruction of the walls of the bronchioles and alveoli, which results in abnormal and enlarged air spaces. |
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| Excision of thickened atheromatous areas of he innermost layer of an artery (intima) to improve circulation. |
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| A feeling or state of well-being or elation. |
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| A broad band of skills that allow an individual to engage in independent, self-directed behavior. |
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| Involuntary movement, changes in muscle tone, and abnormal posture. |
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| An individual holds an unchangeable idea. |
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| Gastrointestinal disorder |
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| A disorder of the digestive system. |
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| A region of DNA that carries the genetic instructions for a cell. |
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| Generalized anxiety disorder |
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| Chronic, repeated episodes of anxiety or dread accompanied by autonomic changes. |
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| Genetic makeup of a living organism. |
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| Disorders of perception. Atypical auditory, visual, and/or olfactory sensory perceptions. |
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| A localized collection of extravasated blood, usually clotted, in an organ, space, or tissue. |
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| Paresis or weakness affecting one side of the body. |
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| Paralysis of one side of the body, usually caused by a brain lesion, such as a tumor or cerebrovascular accident. |
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| A type of stroke resulting from blood that has escaped the normal vessels and entered brain tissue or the subarachnoid space. |
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| Loss of one half of the visual field, on the same side, in both eyes. |
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| The ability to read words above age-level expectation. |
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| Persistent blood pressure measurements above the normal systolic (140 mm Hg) or diastolic (90 mm Hg) pressures. |
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| An episode of manic symptoms that are not severe enough to meet the criteria for mania listed in DSM IV-TR |
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| Insufficient oxygenation of the blood. |
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| The ability to use eye contact and gestures in order to share experiences with others. |
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| The ability and sense by which position, weight, and movement are percieved. |
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| Abnormally increased convexity in the curvature of the thoracic spine viewed from the side, resulting from an acquired disease, an injury, or congenital disorder or disease. |
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| "a clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual and that is associated with present distress or disability or with significantly increased risk of suffering death, pain, disability, or an important loss of freedom." |
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| Spasm of a muscle or group of muscles. |
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| Decreases or deficits in typical behaviors, seen in mental illness. |
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| Of or relating to the biologic studey of the nervous system. |
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| Contaminated tau protein that becomes twisted and causes eventual cell death. |
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| A nerve cell that is specialized in transmitting and receiving electrical signals to communicate information between different regions of the body. |
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| Pathology of the nervous system. |
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| Chemical transmitters, such as dopamine and glutamate, secreted by neurons that bind receptors on nearby cells. |
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| "a recurrent and persistent idea, thought, or impulse to carry out an act that is ego-dystonic, that is experienced as senseless or repugnant, and that the individula cannot voluntarily suppress." |
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| Obsessive-compulsive disorder |
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| "a type of anxiety disorder whose essential feature is recurrent thoughts, impulses or images or compulsions (repetitive, purposeful, and intentional behaviors performed in response to an obsession) sufficiently severe to cause marked distress, be time consuming or interfere significantly with the individual's normal routine, occupational functioning, or usual social activities or relationships with others." |
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| Inflammation of the optic nerve, affecting the part of the nerve within the eyeball (neuropapillitis) or the part behind the eyeball (retrobulbar neuritis), usually causing pain and partial blindness in one eye. |
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| The delivery of fully oxygenated blood to peripheral tissues, the cellular uptake of oxygen, the utilization of oxygen from the blood, and the return of partially desaturated blood to the lungs. |
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| "sudden onset of intense apprehension, fear, terror or impending doom accompanied by increased autonomic nervous system activity and by various constitutional disturbances, depersonalization, and derealization." |
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| A language disorder in which a person hears and comprehends words but is unable to speak correctly. |
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| Genetic markers that show in observable characteristics in organisms. |
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| A physician specializing in rehabilitation medicine. |
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| An inflammation of lung tissue, where the alveoli in the affected areas fill with fluid. The condition is caused by bacteria, viruses, aspiration, or immobility. |
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| Observable behaviors of psychosis such as hallucinations and delusions. |
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| Posttraumatic stress disorder. |
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| "development of characteristic symptoms following a psychologically traumatic event that is generally outside the range of usual human experience; symptoms include numbed responsiveness to environmental stimuli, a variety of autonomic and cognitive dysfunctions and dysphoria." |
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| Innate primary reactions found in newborns and indicative of severe brain damage if present beyond their usual time of disappearance. |
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| The ability to learn new motor, perceptual, or basic cognitive behaviors. |
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| Repetitive and nonproductive motor activity. May present as pacing or fidgeting. |
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| The inability to distinguish fantasy from reality; delusion or hallucinations that may be mood-congruent or mood incongruent. |
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| The inability to distinguish fantasy from reality; delusion or hallucinations that may be mood-congruent or mood incongruent. |
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| Paralysis of all four limbs |
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| Four or more episodes of some type of mood disturbance within the past year; episodes meet criteria for either mania, hypomania, mixed or depressed episodes as identified in DSM IV-TR. |
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| A reflex, which is built inanddoes not need conscious thought to take effect, is the totoal of any particular automatic response mediated by the nervous system. |
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| Return of symptoms, resulting in rehospitalization for mental illness. |
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| Loss of memory of events that occurred prior to the injury. |
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| The ability to recall information after a short period of time. |
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| "a persistent pattern of significant fear of a social or performance situation, manifested by anxiety or panic on exposure to the situation or in anticipation of it, which the person realizes is unreasonable or excessive and interferes significantly with the person's functioning." |
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| Spasticity (hypertonicity) |
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| Abnormally high muscle tone, i.e., tone which is felt as too much resistance to movememt, resulting from hyperactive reflexes or the loss of inhibiting influences from higher brain centers. |
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| The instrument used to measure blood pressure. |
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| A pattern of behaviork such as hand flapping or nonproductive exploration of objects, that is often seen in autism. |
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| A type of sensory defensiveness in which a person overreacts or avoids touching certail textures. |
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| Pattern of communicating in which the person moves off the central point, and unlike circumstantiality, is unable to return to the point. |
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| Topographic orientatation |
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| Orientation of the self within the environment. |
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| A bacterial infection that affects the lungs, and sometimes the kidneys and bones. The bacteria that causes TB is spread by airborne droplets. |
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| Unilateral spatial neglect |
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| Inattention to visual stimuli presented on the individual's side contralateral to a cerebral lesion. It may occur independently of visual deficits or with hemianopsia. |
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| Refers to the syndrome that consists only of major depressive episodes without manic episodes. |
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| Pertaining to the ability to comprehen visual representations and their spatial relationships. |
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