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*** Affect
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The conscious aspect of an emotion apart from bodily changes.
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*** Blunted Affect
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A lack of emotional reactivity.
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*** Flat Affect
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Loss or lack of emotional expressiveness.
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*** Inappropriate Affect
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A display of emotion that is out of harmony with reality.
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*** Labile Affect
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The pathological expression of laughter, crying, or smiling. An individual may find themselves laughing uncontrollably at something that is only moderately funny, being unable to stop themselves for several minutes.
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*** Restricted Affect
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Is an affect type that represents mild reduction in the range and intensity of emotional expression.
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*** Anxiety
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A complex combination of emotions that includes fear, apprehension and worry, and is often accompanied by physical sensations such as palpitations, nausea, chest pain and/or shortness of breath.
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*** Attention
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The cognitive process of selectively concentrating on one thing while ignoring other things
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*** Catatonic Behavior
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Behavior characterized by muscular tightness or rigidity and lack of response to the environment.
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Conversion Symptom
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A psychiatric condition in which emotional distress or unconscious conflict are expressed through physical symptoms.
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Defense Mechanism
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An often unconscious mental process (as repression, projection, or sublimation) that makes possible compromise solutions to personal problems
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Delusion
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A false belief based on incorrect interference about external reality that is firmly sustained despite what everyone else believes.
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Bizarre Delusion
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Delusions are irrational beliefs, held with a high level of conviction, that are highly resistant to change even when the delusional person is exposed to forms of proof that contradict the belief.
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Delusion of being controlled
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A common paranoid delusions include the belief that the person's actions are being controlled by an external force.
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Delusional jealousy
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Or Othello syndrome is a psychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that their spouse or sexual partner is being unfaithful
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Erotomanic Delusion
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A delusional conviction that some other person, usually of higher status and often famous, is in love with the individual; it is one of the subtypes of delusional disorder
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Grandiose Delusion
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An exaggerated belief or claims of one's importance or identity, often manifested by delusions of great wealth, power, or fame.
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Persecutory Delusion
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A delusion that one is being attacked, harassed, cheated, persecuted, or conspired against; it is one of the subtypes of delusional disorder
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Somatic Delusion
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A delusion that there is some alteration in a bodily organ or its function.
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Thought Broadcasting
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The delusion that one's thoughts are being broadcast to the environment.
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Thought insertion
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The delusion that thoughts that are not one's own are being inserted into one's mind.
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Derailment
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Disordered thought or speech.
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Dissociation
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A pervasive instability of mood, self-image or sense of self.
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Hallucination
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A sense perception without a source in the external world; a perception of an external stimulus object in the absence of such an object.
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Auditory Hallucination
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A hallucination involving the sense of hearing. Called also paracusia and paracusis .
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Visual Hallucination
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A hallucination involving the sense of sight.
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Grandiosity
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the condition of being grandiose; an exaggerated belief of one's importance or identity.
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Ideas of Reference
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A delusional conviction that ordinary events, objects, or behaviors of others have an unusual or peculiar meaning specifically for oneself.
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Incoherence
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Lack of connection.
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Mood
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A pervasive and sustained emotion that, when extreme, can color one's whole view of life and markedly affect behavior.
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Dysphoric Mood
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Low mood that may include dissatisfaction, restlessness, or depression
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Elevated Mood
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An exaggerated feeling of well-being, or euphoria or elation. A person with elevated mood may describe feeling "high," "ecstatic," "on top of the world," or "up in the clouds."
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Euthymic Mood
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One in the range of normal, being neither elevated nor depressed
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Expansive Mood
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Lack of restraint in expressing one's own feelings. Easily annoyed and provoked to anger.
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Panic Attacks
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Discrete periods of sudden onset of intense apprehension, fearfulness, or terror, often associated with feelings of impending doom.
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Paranoid Ideation
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Suspiciousness or the belief that one is being harassed, persecuted, or unfairly treated.
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Phobia
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Irrational fear of or an aversion
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Prodrome
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A symptom indicating the onset of a disease
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Psychotic
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Pertaining to, characterized by, a mental disorder characterized by gross impairment in reality testing as evidenced by delusions, hallucinations, markedly incoherent speech, or disorganized and agitated behavior.
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Residual Phase
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The phase of an illness that occurs after remission of the florid symptoms or the full syndrome.
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Sign
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A manifestation of a pathological condition, and observed by the examiner.
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Stressor, Psychosocial
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Any life event or life change that may be associated temporally with the onset, occurrence, or exacerbation of a mental disorder.
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Symptom
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A subjective manifestation of a patholigical condition.
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Personality
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Enduring patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself.
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Syndrome
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A grouping of signs and symptoms, based on their frequent co-occurrence, that may suggest a common underlying pathogenesis,course,familial pattern, or treatment selection.
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Agitation
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Excessive motor activity associated with a feeling of inner tension.
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Alogia
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A general lack of additional, unprompted content seen in normal speech.
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Avolition
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An inability to initiate and persist in goal-directed activities.
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Depersonalization
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An alteration in the perception or experience of the self so that one feels detached from one's mental processes or body.
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Derealization
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An alteration in the perception of the external world so that it seems strange.
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Distractibility
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The inability to maintain attention. Shifting from one area or topic to another.
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Disorientation
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Confusion about the time of day,date, or season.
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Flashback
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A recurrence of a memory, feeling, or perceptual experience from the past.
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Flight of Ideas
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A nearly continuous flow of accelerated speech with abrupt changes from topic to topic.
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Gustatory Hallucinations
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A hallucination involving the perception of taste.
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Olfactory Hallucination
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A hallucination involving the sense of smell.
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Somatic Hallucination
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A hallucination involving the perception of a physical experience localized within the body.
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Tactile Hallucination
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A hallucination involving the perception of being touched or of something under one's skin.
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Hypersomnia
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Excessive sleepiness, as evidenced by prolonged nocternal sleep.
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Magical Thinking
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The erroneous belief that one's thoughts, words, or actions will cause or prevent a specific outcome.
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Mood-congruent Psychotic
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Delusions or hallucinations whose content is entirely consistent with the typical themes of a depressed or manic mood.
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Mood-incongruent Psychotic
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Delusions or hallucinations whose content is not entirely consistent with the typical themes of a depressed or manic mood.
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Overvalued Idea
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An unreasonable and sustained belief that is maintained with less than delusional intesity.
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Psychomotor Retardation
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Visible generalized slowing of movements and speech.
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Pressured Speech
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Speech that is increased in amount, accelerated,and difficult or impossible to interrupt.
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Stereotyped Movements
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Repetitive, seemingly driven, and nonfunctional motor behavior.
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Stupor
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A state of unresponsiveness with immobility and mutism.
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Aphasia
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An impairment in the understanding or transmission of ideas by language due to injury or disease.
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Aphonia
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An inability to produce speech sounds that require the use of the larynx.
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Ataxia
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Partial or complete loss of coordination of involuntary muscular movement.
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Catalepsy
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Waxy flexibility-rigid maintenance of a body position over an extended period of time.
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Cataplexy
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Episodes of sudden bilateral loss of muscle tone resulting in the individual collapsing.
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Dysarthria
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Imperfect articulation of speech due to disturbances of muscle control.
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Dyskinesia
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Distortion of voluntary movements with involuntary muscular activity.
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Dystonia
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Disordered tonicity of muscle.
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Dyssomnia
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Disorders of the amount, quallity, or timing of sleep.
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Stupor
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A state of unresponsiveness with immobility and mutism.
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Aphasia
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An impairment in the understanding or transmission of ideas by language due to injury or disease.
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Aphonia
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An inability to produce speech sounds that require the use of the larynx.
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Ataxia
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Partial or complete loss of coordination of involuntary muscular movement.
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Catalepsy
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Waxy flexibility-rigid maintenance of a body position over an extended period of time.
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Cataplexy
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Episodes of sudden bilateral loss of muscle tone resulting in the individual collapsing.
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Dysarthria
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Imperfect articulation of speech due to disturbances of muscle control.
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Dyskinesia
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Distortion of voluntary movements with involuntary muscular activity.
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Dystonia
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Disordered tonicity of muscle.
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Dyssomnia
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Disorders of the amount, quallity, or timing of sleep.
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Echolalia
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The pathological, parrotlike, and apparently senseless repetition of a word or phrase just spoken by another.
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Echopraxia
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Repetition by imitation of the movements of another.
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Gender Dysphoria
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A persistent aversion toward some or all of those physical characteristics or social roles that connote one's own biological sex.
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Gender Identity
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A person's inner conviction of being male or female.
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Gender Role
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Attitudes,patterns, of behavior,and personality attributes defined by the culture in which the person lives as stereotypically masculine or feminine social roles.
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Hyperacusis
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Painful sensitivity to sounds.
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Intersex Condition
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A condition in which and individual shows intermingling, in various degrees of the characteristics of each sex.
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Macropsia
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The visual perception that objects are larger than they actually are.
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Micropsia
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The visual percecption that objects are smaller than they actually are.
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Nystagmus
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Involuntary rhythmic movements of the eyes that consists of small amplitude rapid tremors in one direction and a larger, slower,recurrent sweep in the opposite direction.
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Parasomnia
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Abnormal behavior occuring during sleep or sleep-wake transitions.
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Synesthesia
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When one sensory experience illicits a response from a different sensory mechanism.
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Tic
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An involuntary, sudden, rapid, reccurent motor movement or vocalization.
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Transsexualism
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Severe gender dysphoria, coupled with a persistent desire for the physical characteristics and social roles that connote the opposite biological sex.
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