Psychiatry

Psychiatry

The practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders

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Schizophasia

Health care; Psychiatry

Schizophasia, or colloquially "word salad", is characterised by a patient's speech being an incoherent and incomprehensible mix of words and phrases. This occurs in schizophrenic patients.

Reduplicative paramnesia

Health care; Psychiatry

A misidentification in which the patient's surroundings are believed to exist in more than one physical location.

Restlessness

Health care; Psychiatry

Restlessness has two components: akathisia (subjective "inner" restlessness) and Psychomotor agitation (an excess of motor activity).

Schnauzkrampf

Health care; Psychiatry

A schnauzkrampf is a grimace resembling pouting sometimes observed in catatonic patients.

Latah

Health care; Psychiatry

Latah is a culture-specific syndrome usually seen in Southeast Asia and involves startle-induced disorganization, hypersuggestibility, automatic obedience, and echopraxia (a tendency to mimic ...

Lilliputian hallucinations

Health care; Psychiatry

Lilliputian hallucinations are characterised by abnormal perception of objects as being shrunken in size but normal in detail. Usually seen in Delirium Tremens.

L'homme qui rit

Health care; Psychiatry

In l'homme qui rit, meaning "the man who laughs" in French, a patient displays inappropriate laughter accompanied by release phenomena of the frontal subdominant lobe.