Psychiatry

Psychiatry

The practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders

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Mania a potu

Health care; Psychiatry

Mania a potu is an alcohol intoxication state with violent and markedly disinhibited behavior. This condition is different from violent behaviour in otherwise normal individuals who are intoxicated.

Palinacousis

Health care; Psychiatry

Palinacousis refers to a phenomenon in which the subject continues to listen to a word, a syllable or any sound, even after the withdrawal of stimulus. It is a type of perseveration.

Palilalia

Health care; Psychiatry

Palilalia is characterised by the repetition of a word or phrase ie the subject continues to repeat a word or phrase after once having said. It is a perseveratory phenomenon.

Oneiroid state

Health care; Psychiatry

From Greek oneiros, meaning dream. In the Oneiroid state one feels and behaves as though in a dream.

Mitmachen

Health care; Psychiatry

In mitmachen, the patient's body can be put into any posture, despite instructions given that the patient resist.

Refers to a thought disorder wherein thinking takes a roundabout manner to get to an answer. Differentiable from tangentiality by the speaker eventually getting back to the point. For example: "My ...

Chorea

Health care; Psychiatry

Chorea is manifest by abnormal voluntary movements. The term comes from Greek word khoreia, since large groups of muscles are usually involved which leads to writhing dancing movement.