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a central nervous system stimulant that affects chemicals in the brain and nerves that contribute to hyperactivity and impulse control.

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Amphetamine

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a central nervous system stimulant that affects chemicals in the brain and nerves that contribute to hyperactivity and impulse control.

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Amphetamine

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is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) antidepressant. Affects chemicals in the brain that may be unbalanced in people with depression, panic, anxiety, or obsessive-compulsive symptoms.is used to treat major depressive disorder, bulimia nervosa (an eating disorder) obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, and premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD).

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Fluoxetine

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blocks an enzyme that is involved in metabolizing alcohol intake. Produces very unpleasant side effects when combined with alcohol in the body.

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Antabuse (disulfiram)

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affects the flow of sodium through nerve and muscle cells in the body. Sodium affects excitation or mania. is used to treat the manic episodes of bipolar disorder. Symptoms include hyperactivity, rushed speech, poor judgment, reduced need for sleep, aggression, and anger.

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Lithium

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It is a neurological condition caused by damage to the portions of the brain responsible for language, and it does not affect intelligence.

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Aphasia

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is the least severe form pf aphasia. With it, individuals are often unable to supply the correct words for the things they want to talk about—objects, people, places, or events. It’s sometimes described as having a word on the tip of one’s tongue.

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Anomic Aphasia

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also referred to as nonfluent or expressive aphasia. This type of aphasia can be very frustrating, as a person with this type of aphasia, knows what he or she wants to say, but is unable to accurately produce the correct word or sentence. Expressing language in the form of speech and writing will be severely reduced.

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Brocas aphasia

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Type of aphasia, are unaware that the words they are producing are incorrect and nonsensical. He or she may have severe comprehension difficulties and be unable to grasp the meaning of spoken words, yet may be able to produce fluent and connected speech.

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Wernicke’s Aphasia

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is a rapid onset of confusion usually caused by withdrawal from alcohol. Physical effects may include shaking, shivering, irregular heart rate, and sweating. Occasionally, a very high body temperature or seizures may result in death. Alcohol is one of the most dangerous drugs to experience withdrawal from.

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Delirium tremes

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is a progressive disorder of the nervous system that affects movement. It develops gradually, sometimes starting with a barely noticeable tremor in just one hand. But while a tremor may be the most well-known sign of this disease, the disorder also commonly causes stiffness or slowing of movement.

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Parkinson's disease

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is an inherited disease that causes the progressive breakdown (degeneration) of nerve cells in the brain. Has a broad impact on a person's functional abilities and usually results in movement, thinking (cognitive) and psychiatric disorders.

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Huntington's disease

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is the most common cause of dementia. The word dementia describes a set of symptoms that can include memory loss and difficulties with thinking, problem-solving or language.

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Alzeimer's disease

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form of hysteric behaviour, popularly believed to result from the bite of the wolf spider Lycosa tarantula (distinct from the broad class of spiders also called tarantulas).

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Tarantism /St.Vitus dance

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argued throughout his career that mental illness is a metaphor for human problems in living, and that mental illnesses are not real in the sense that cancers are real.

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Thomas SZaz

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was a French physician who was instrumental in the development of a more humane psychological approach to the custody and care of psychiatric patients, referred to today as moral therapy. He also made notable contributions to the classification of mental disorders and has been described by some as "the father of modern psychiatry".

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Philippe Pinel

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the "father of American psychiatry," was the first to believe that mental illness is a disease of the mind and not a "possession of demons."

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Benjamin Rush

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He created the field of somatotype and constitutional psychology that tried to correlate body types with behavior, intelligence and social hierarchy illustrated by his Ivy League nude posture photos.[1

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William Sheldon

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according to Sheldon, was a thin, introverted person with poor social skills. Think of television's Steve Urkel or Greg from Diary of a Wimpy Kid, or even Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory. These characters possess the ectomorph body type:narrow hips, shoulders, face, chestskinny arms and legshigh forehead

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Ectomorph

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body type, which is a rounder body and more relaxed personality, with the following physical characteristics:pear-shaped or round with wide shoulders and hipshigh body fat in all areas, including arms and thighsslim ankles and wrists, adding to the 'funny' characteristic

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Endomorph

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is a square body with an active personality and considered a more desirable body and personality. They have the following physical characteristics:broad shoulders and a narrow waista trim or muscular body with a 'strong' feelproportionate facial features

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Mesomorph

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characterized by an inability to remember personal information in a way that cannot be accounted for by forgetfulness

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Dissociative amnesia

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characterized by more than one identity present in one person

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Dissociative identity disorder

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characterized by a feeling that objects in the environment are changing shape or size or that people are automated; feeling detached from one's body

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Depersonalization/derealisation disorder

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have no memory from a specific period of time, usually around the trauma.

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Localized Amnesia

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remember only parts of what happened during specific timeframes. For example, an abuse victim may remember being on a boat but not the abuse that took place there.

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Selective Amnesia

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this rare form of amnesia is when the amnesia encompasses a person's whole life including his or her identity.

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Generalized Amnesia

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dissociative fugue used to be its own diagnosis but now it is considered part of the dissociative amnesia diagnosis. When the dissociative amnesia is associated with confused and bewildered wandering or a journey of some sort, it is known as dissociative amnesia with fugue. In a fugue state, the person is unaware of his or her identity.

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Dissociative fugue

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is a form of amnesia where someone is unable to recall events that occurred before the development of the amnesia, even though they may be able to encode and memorize new things that occur after the onset.

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Retrograde amnesia

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is the loss of the ability to create new memories, leading to a partial or complete inability to recall the recent past, even though long-term memories from before the event which caused the amnesia remain intact

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Anterograde Amnesia

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An altered state of consciousness in which people firmly believe they are possessed by spirits, considered a disorder only where there is distress and dysfunction

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Dissociative trance

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found among teenage girls and yound women of the Miskito indians in Nicaragua. They also run wild with machetes, occasionally assaulting people or mutilating themselves. They have no memory of their actions

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Grisi siknis

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or arctic hysteria is found among polar eskimos. For anywhere from a few minutes to an hour, a person takes off their clothing and runs screaming through the snow and ice, as a response to a sudden fright

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Pibloktoq

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(in the Bahamas) involves falling to the ground, apparently comatose, but hearing and understanding what is going on around you

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Falling out

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(in Haiti) is a possession trance understood as a response to fear.

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Indisposition

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(in India) is a seizure-like response by some women to family stress, curable by exorcism or by simply telling her husband to protect her from her inlaws!

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Fits

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he coined the term démence-precoce to refer to mental degeneration to describe schizophrenia

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Benedict Morel

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considered to be the founder of modern psychiatry and psychopharmacology. He suggested that the primary origin of psychiatric disease was related to biological and genetic malfunction. Kraepelin also devised a classification system for mental illness that helped shape later classifications.

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Emil kraeplin

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was a Swiss psychiatrist and eugenicist[2] most notable for his contributions to the understanding of mental illness and for coining the terms "schizophrenia",[3][4] "schizoid",[5] "autism",[6] and what Sigmund Freud called "Bleuler's happily chosen term ambivalence

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Emil bleuler

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Animal magnetism was coined by

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Franz Anton Mesmer

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He is known as "the founder of modern neurology

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Jean Martin Charcot

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This brain lobe is primarily associated with auditory information, understanding spoken language and memory

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Temporal

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controls the body's responses to a perceived threat and is responsible for the "fight or flight" response.

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Sympathetic nervous system

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controls homeostasis and the body at rest and is responsible for the body's "rest and digest" function.

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Parasympathetic nervous system