Psychiatry

Psychiatry

The practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders

Contributors in Psychiatry

Psychiatry

A common disorder in which chronic inflammation of the bronchial tubes (bronchi) makes them swell, narrowing the airways. Asthma involves only the bronchial tubes and does not affect the air sacs ( ...

Parasuicide

Health care; Psychiatry

The deliberate infliction of injury on oneself or the taking of a drug overdose as an attempt at suicide which may not be intended to be succesful.

Lycanthropy

Health care; Psychiatry

A form of madness in which a person believes himself or herself to be an animal (esp.a wolf0 and behaves accordingly.

Cotard delusion

Health care; Psychiatry

The Cotard delusion or Cotard's syndrome or Walking Corpse Syndrome is a rare neuropsychiatric disorder in which people hold a delusional belief that they are dead (either figuratively or literally), ...

Foreign accent syndrome

Health care; Psychiatry

There are 50 cases located in the world of this rare disorder that arises when multiple connexions to the control centres of language in the left brain are damaged. Some patients produce a pattern ...

Loony bin

Health care; Psychiatry

An institution for mentally impaired people or psychiatric ward of a hospital.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

Health care; Psychiatry

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a common mental health problem. Symptoms typically include recurring obsessive thoughts, and repetitive compulsions in response to the obsession. A common ...