Psychiatry

Psychiatry

The practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders

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Mental

Health care; Psychiatry

It refers to aspects of, or things related to the mind, or, in anatomy, the region of the chin is called as mental.

Stress

Health care; Psychiatry

It typically describes a negative concept that can have an impact on one's mantle and physical helath.

The Stockholm syndrome is a psychological response sometimes seen in hostages who exhibit empathy and loyalty towards their captors, sometimes to the point of defending them, in spite of the danger ...

Dementia pugilistica

Health care; Psychiatry

Dementia pugilistica, also called "chronic traumatic encephalopathy", "pugilistic Parkinson's syndrome", "boxer's syndrome", and "punch-drunk syndrome", is a neurological disorder which affects ...

Cotard's syndrome

Health care; Psychiatry

Cotard's syndrome is a nihilistic delusional syndrome in which, for example, patient believes that he denies his own existence or existence of his body parts and belongings etc. and has a firm ...

Dereistic thinking

Health care; Psychiatry

Dereistic thinking is an old descriptive term used to refer to thinking not in accordance with the facts of reality and experience and following illogical , idiosyncratic reasoning. This term is also ...

Dementia praecox

Health care; Psychiatry

Psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin was the first to draw a distinction between what he termed dementia praecox ("premature dementia") and other psychotic illnesses. In 1911, dementia praecox was renamed ...