Psychiatry

Psychiatry

The practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders

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Knight's move thinking

Health care; Psychiatry

Knight's Move thinking a phenomenon similar to derailment of thought or loosening of associations, is characterised by odd, tangential associations between ideas that lead to disruptions in the ...

Kuru (also known as laughing sickness due to the outbursts of laughter that mark its second phase) was first noted in New Guinea in the early 1900s. Kuru is now known to be a prion disease, one of ...

Jargon aphasia

Health care; Psychiatry

Jargon aphasia,is characterised by incoherent, meaningless, speech with a neologisms (newly invented words). These are unconscious thoughts that find expression when one is off one's guard and must ...

Klüver bucy syndrome

Health care; Psychiatry

In Kluver-Bucy syndrome, a patient will display placidity, hyperorality, hypersexuality, and hyperphagia. This condition results from bilateral destruction of the amygdaloid bodies of the limbic ...

Koro

Health care; Psychiatry

Koro is a culture-specific syndrome usually seen in Chinese people. It involves a morbid fear of retraction of the penis into the abdomen with the belief that this will lead to death.

Logoclonia

Health care; Psychiatry

In logoclonia, the patient often repeats the last syllable of a word.

Hyposchemazia

Health care; Psychiatry

Hyposchemazia is characterised by the reduced awareness of a patient's body image and Aschemazia by the absence of it. These disorders can have many varied causes such as physical injuries, mental ...