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Psychiatry
The practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders
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Affect illusion
Health care; Psychiatry
Illusions or misperceptions associated with and/or based on changes with mood. For example, at midnight a person may take a shadow as a ghost, but in the early part of night this may not be the case.
Abulia
Health care; Psychiatry
Aboulia or Abulia, in neurology, refers to a lack of will or initiative. The patient is unable to act or make decisions independently. It may range from subtle to overwhelming in severity.
Abreaction
Health care; Psychiatry
Abreaction is an emotional release or discharge following recall of a painful experience. It's sometimes used sometimes by police, forensics after administering amobarbital.
Akataphasia
Health care; Psychiatry
Akataphasia (Kraepelin 1896) refers to disorder of thought expression in speech and results due to dissolution of logical ordering of trains of thought.
Achromatopsia
Health care; Psychiatry
Acquired agnosia for colour or the loss of ability to recognise different colors, such as colour blindness.
Fatuous affect
Health care; Psychiatry
The moods of a patient with fatuous affect resemble the moods of a child. This condition is seen in hebephrenic schizophrenia.
