Psychiatry

Psychiatry

The practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders

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Clouding of consciousness

Health care; Psychiatry

Clouding of consciousness is a global impairment in higher central nervous functioning. All aspects of cognitive functioning are affected. On mental status examination it is manifest by ...

Cerea flexibilitas

Health care; Psychiatry

Cerea flexibilitas, meaning "waxy flexibility," 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 ...

Thought disorder wherein words are chosen or repeated based on similar sounds, instead of semantic meaning. "The train rain brained me. He ate the skate, inflated yesterdays gate toward the cheese ...