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Psychiatry

The practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders

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Psychiatry

Wahneinfall

Health care; Psychiatry

Wahneinfall is alternate term for autochthonous delusions. This is one of the types of primary delusions in which a firm belief comes into the patient's mind 'out of the blue' or as an intution , ...

Verstimmung

Health care; Psychiatry

It refers to an ill humoured mood state often accompanied by low mood and depressive symptoms. The people surrounding the patient often feel upset by this.

Synaesthesiae

Health care; Psychiatry

From the Greek syn- meaning union and aesthesis meaning sensation -- is a neurological condition in which two or more bodily senses are coupled.

Telegrammatic speech

Health care; Psychiatry

In telegraphic speech conjunctions and articles are missed out; meaning is retained and few words are used.

Telegraphic speech

Health care; Psychiatry

In telegraphic speech conjunctions and articles are missed out; meaning is retained and few words are used.

Torpor

Health care; Psychiatry

Torpor in psychopathology is usually taken to mean profound inactivity not caused by reduction in consciousness.

Thought sonorization

Health care; Psychiatry

A combined term for Gedankenlautwerden and Écho de la pensée

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