Psychiatry

Psychiatry

The practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders

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Hemiasomatognosia

Health care; Psychiatry

Hemiasomatognosia is a subtype of anosognosia in which the person suffering from hemiplegia neglects one half of his body.

Waxy flexibility

Health care; Psychiatry

Waxy flexibility, aka Cerea flexibilitas, meaning is characterised by a patient's movements having the feeling of a plastic resistance, as if the person were made of wax. This occurs in catatonic ...

Word-salad

Health care; Psychiatry

Derived from the the German word Wortsalat, it is characterised by confused, and often repetitious, language with no apparent meaning or relationship attached to them. It is often symptomatic of ...

Witzelsücht is a tendency to tell inappropriate joke and creating excessive facetiousness and inappropriate or pointless humor. It is seen in Frontal lobe disorders usually along with moria. Recent ...

Wurgstimme

Health care; Psychiatry

Wurgstimme refers to speaking in an odd muffled or strangled voice. It is mainly seen in schizophrenia.

Aphemia

Health care; Psychiatry

Aphemia is the alternate term for mutism. Mutism is absence of speech with apparently normal level of consciousness. Mutism can be dissociative (hysterical) in which an individual (commonly a child ...

Astasia-abasia

Health care; Psychiatry

Astasia abasia is a form of dissociative disorder in which gait becomes impaired in absence of any neurological or physical pathology. The person usually walks in a bizarre manner. He staggers and ...