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x Motor neuron disease Polio spinal diagram   Muscle atrophy  
The motor neurone diseases (or motor neuron diseases) (MND) are a group of neurological disorders that selectively affect motor neurones, the cells that control voluntary muscle activity including speaking, walking, breathing, swallowing and general...
Muscle weakness
Spasticity
x Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis        
Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is an immune mediated disease of the brain. It usually occurs following a viral infection but may appear following vaccination, bacterial or parasitic infection, or even appear spontaneously. As it...
x Arthritis Arthrite rhumatoide Obesity Swelling Ginger
Arthritis (from Greek arthro-, joint + -itis, inflammation; plural: arthritides) is a group of conditions involving damage to the joints of the body. There are over 100 different forms of arthritis. The most common form, osteoarthritis (degenerative...
Old age Night Sweats Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug
Female Pain Synovectomy
Family History of Arthritis Dyspnea Disease-modifying antirheumatic drug
Pyrexia Physical therapy
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x Aphasia Surfacegyri      
Aphasia (pronounced /əˈfeɪʒə or əˈfeɪziə/) is an acquired condition in which there is an impairment of any language modality. This may include difficulty in producing or comprehending spoken or written language. Traditionally, "Aphasia" suggests the...
x Albinism Albinisitic man portrait      
Albinism (from Latin albus, "white"; see extended etymology, also called achromia, achromasia, or achromatosis) is a form of hypopigmentary congenital disorder, characterized by a partial (in hypomelanism, also known as hypomelanosis) or total ...
x Bipolar disorder Vincent Van Gogh, Starry Night, 1889 (Museum of Modern Art, New York) Major life changes Fatigue Carbamazepine
Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depressive disorder, manic depression or bipolar affective disorder, is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a category of mood disorders defined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally elevated...
Stress Suicidal ideation Atypical antipsychotic
Drug abuse Irritability Anticonvulsant
Family History of Bipolar Disorder Anxiety Mood stabilizer
Aggression Antidepressant
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x Bacterial vaginosis bacterial vaginosis.jpg Unsafe sex Abnormal vaginal discharge Clindamycin
Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is the most common cause of vaginal infection. It is less commonly referred to as vaginal bacteriosis. It is not considered to be a sexually transmitted infection (see causes below). BV is caused by an imbalance of naturally...
IUD contraception Dyspareunia Antibiotic
Pregnancy Vaginal odor Tinidazole
Sexually transmitted disease Asymptomatic Metronidazole
Menopause Vaginal tenderness
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x Bubonic plague Yersinia pestis fluorescent      
Plague is a deadly infectious disease caused by the enterobacteria Yersinia pestis (Pasteurella pestis). Plague is a zoonotic, primarily carried by rodents (most notably rats) and spread to humans via fleas. Plague is notorious throughout history,...
x Catatonia        
Catatonia is a syndrome of psychological and motorological disturbances. Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum first described it in 1874: Die Katatonie oder das Spannungirresein (Catatonia or Tension Insanity). In the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of...
x Cardiac arrhythmia Sinus pause Heart disease Asymptomatic Vagal maneuver
Dysrhythmia is a cause of certain cardiac diseases
Alcohol use Lightheadedness Heparin
Smoking Syncope Warfarin
Exposure to chemicals Dizziness Aspirin
Drug abuse Palpitation Antiarrhythmic agent
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x Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease VCJD Tonsil      
Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease or CJD (pronounced /ˈkrɔɪtsfɛlt ˈjɑkɔp/) (sometimes incorrectly referred to as mad cow disease) is a degenerative neurological disorder (brain disease) that is incurable and invariably fatal. It is the most common among the...
x Chickenpox Child with chickenpox Close contact with an infected person Malaise Aciclovir
Chickenpox or chicken pox, also known as varicella, is a highly contagious illness caused by primary infection with varicella zoster virus (VZV). It usually starts with vesicular skin rash appearing in two or three waves, mainly on the body and head...
Pregnancy Pyrexia Antihistamine
Infant Cough Calamine
Immunosuppression Headache Zoster-immune globulin
Incomplete immunization Abdominal pain
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x Coronary heart disease Coronary angiogram of a man Menopause Dyspnea Coronary stent
Coronary artery disease (CAD)(or atherosclerotic heart disease) is the end result of the accumulation of atheromatous plaques within the walls of the coronary arteries that supply the myocardium (the muscle of the heart) with oxygen and nutrients....
Tobacco smoking Angina Nitroglycerin
Old age Cardiac arrest Angioplasty
Hypercholesterolemia Coronary artery bypass surgery
Heredity Beta blocker
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x Cretinism        
Cretinism is a condition of severely stunted physical and mental growth due to untreated congenital deficiency of thyroid hormones (hypothyroidism) or from prolonged nutritional deficiency of iodine. The term cretin describes a person so affected,...
x Chagas disease Trypanosoma cruzi crithidia      
Chagas disease (Portuguese: doença de Chagas, Spanish: enfermedad de Chagas-Mazza, mal de Chagas in both languages; also called American trypanosomiasis) is a tropical parasitic disease caused by the flagellate protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi. T. cruzi...
x Chlamydia Chlamydia Unsafe sex Penile discharge Ofloxacin
Chlamydia infection (from the Greek, χλαμύδα meaning "cloak") is a common sexually transmitted infection (STI) in humans caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis. The term Chlamydia infection can also refer to infection caused by any species...
Multiple sexual partners Vaginal bleeding Amoxicillin
Prostitution Dysuria Erythromycin
Anal discharge Doxycycline
Abnormal vaginal discharge Azithromycin
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x Candidiasis Candidiasis Immunodeficiency Blister Antifungal drug
Candidiasis or thrush is a fungal infection (mycosis) of any of the Candida species, of which Candida albicans is the most common. Candidiasis encompasses infections that range from superficial, such as oral thrush and vaginitis, to systemic and...
Immunosuppressive drug Vaginal tenderness Nystatin
Diabetes mellitus Rash
Steroid Pruritus
Pregnancy
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x Color blindness Color blindness Brain damage Difficulty distinguishing between blue and green  
Color blindness, or colour blindness, a color vision deficiency, is the inability to perceive differences between some of the colors that others can distinguish. It is most often of genetic nature, but may also occur because of eye, nerve, or brain...
Old age Difficulty distinguishing between yellow and blue
Parkinson's disease Difficulty distinguishing between red and green
Alcoholism
Alzheimer's disease
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x Cholera /wikipedia/images/commons_id/197609 Immunodeficiency Diarrhea Tetracycline
Cholera, sometimes known as Asiatic or epidemic cholera, is an infectious gastroenteritis caused by enterotoxin-producing strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Transmission to humans occurs through eating food or drinking water contaminated with...
Achlorhydria Hypovolemic Shock Co-trimoxazole
Eating raw or uncooked shellfish Nausea Erythromycin
Malnutrition Pyrexia Doxycycline
Somnolence Chloramphenicol
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x Cerebral arteriovenous malformation        
Cerebral arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is a malformed collection of blood vessels within the brain, characterized by tangle(s) of veins and arteries. While an arteriovenous malformation can occur elsewhere in the body, this article discusses...
x Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease Charcot-marie-tooth foot Family History of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease Hammer toe  
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT), known also as Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathy (HMSN), Hereditary Sensorimotor Neuropathy (HSMN), or Peroneal Muscular Atrophy, is a heterogeneous inherited disorder of nerves (neuropathy) that is...
Foot drop
Scoliosis
Gastrointestinal Disorders
Tremor
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x 22q11.2 deletion syndrome Autodominant.jpg Family History of 22q11.2 deletion syndrome Autoimmune Disease  
22q11.2 deletion syndrome, also known as DiGeorge Syndrome, Velocardiofacial Syndrome, conotruncal anomaly face syndrome, Congenital Thymic Aplasia, Strong Syndrome, Thymic hypoplasia, and DiGeorge anomaly is a syndrome caused by the deletion of a...
Congenital heart disease
Growth hormone deficiency
Hearing impairment
Hypertelorism
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x Down syndrome Drill Family history of Down syndrome Brushfield spots  
Down syndrome (the most common term in US English), Down's syndrome (standard in the rest of the English-speaking world), trisomy 21, or trisomy G is a chromosomal disorder caused by the presence of all or part of an extra 21st chromosome. It is...
Advancing maternal age Hypotonia
Genetic predisposition to Down syndrome Mental retardation
Congenital heart defect
Leukemia
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x Dyslexia 7-year-old boy wears a corrective lens Family History of Dyslexia Phonological deficit Educational Support Professional
Dyslexia is a learning disorder that manifests itself primarily as a difficulty with reading and spelling. It is separate and distinct from reading difficulties resulting from other causes, such as a non-neurological deficiency with vision or...
Visual verbal agnosia
Speech disorder
Delayed reading ability
x Clinical depression Vincent Willem van Gogh 002 Parkinson's disease Melancholia Electroconvulsive therapy
Major depressive disorder (also known as clinical depression, major depression, unipolar depression, or unipolar disorder) is a mental disorder characterized by an all-encompassing low mood accompanied by low self-esteem, and loss of interest or...
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Unintentional Weight Loss Tricyclic antidepressant
Epilepsy Psychosis Trazodone
Stroke Irritability Transcranial magnetic stimulation
Alzheimer's disease Fatigue Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
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x Endocarditis Blood culture negative endocarditis Artificial heart valve Fatigue Antibiotic
Endocarditis is an inflammation of the inner layer of the heart, the endocardium. It usually involves the heart valves (native or prosthetic valves). Other structures which may be involved include the interventricular septum, the chordae tendinae,...
Congenital heart defect Night Sweats
Damaged Heart Valves Pyrexia
Personal History of Endocarditis Rigor
Myalgia
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x Expressive aphasia Surfacegyri   Agrammatism  
Expressive aphasia, known as Broca's aphasia in clinical neuropsychology and agrammatic aphasia in cognitive neuropsychology, is an aphasia caused by damage to or developmental issues in anterior regions of the brain, including (but not limited to)...
x Epilepsy Spike-waves Stroke Mental confusion Carbamazepine
Epilepsy (from the Ancient Greek ἐπιληψία epilēpsía) is a common chronic neurological disorder characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures. These seizures are transient signs and/or symptoms of abnormal, excessive or synchronous neuronal activity...
Meningitis Loss Of Consciousness Surgery
Coronary heart disease Tonic - Clonic Movements Lamotrigine
Male Blank Stare Ketogenic diet
Head injury Phenytoin
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x Essential tremor        
Essential tremor (ET) is a progressive neurological disorder whose most recognizable feature is a tremor of the arms that is apparent during voluntary movements such as eating and writing. This type of tremor is often referred to as "kinetic tremor....
x Goitre Goitre Old age Dysphonia Radioactive iodine therapy
A goitre (BrE), or goiter (AmE) (Latin gutteria, struma), also called a bronchocele, is a swelling in the thyroid gland, which can lead to a swelling of the neck or larynx (voice box). Goitre usually occurs when the thyroid gland is not functioning...
Pregnancy Dysphagia Partial Thyroidectomy
Menopause Neck mass Levothyroxine
Female Cough Thyroidectomy
Iodine deficiency Dyspnea Corticosteroid
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x Guillain-Barré syndrome getimage.aspx?imageiid=7295 Mononucleosis Adie syndrome Plasmapheresis
Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) (French pronunciation: [ɡiˈlɛ̃ baˈʁe]; in English, pronounced /ˈɡiːlæn ˈbɑreɪ/, /ɡiːˈlæn bəˈreɪ/, etc.) is an acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (AIDP), an autoimmune disorder affecting the peripheral...
Hodgkin's lymphoma Muscle weakness Physical therapy
Surgery Peripheral Motor Neuropathy Intravenous immunoglobulin
Rabies Lower motor neurone lesion Mechanical ventilation
HIV infection Hypertension
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x Hypoglycemia Glucose test      
Hypoglycemia or hypoglycaemia is the medical term for a state produced by a lower than normal level of blood glucose. The term literally means "under-sweet blood" (Gr. hypo-, glykys, haima). Hypoglycemia can produce a variety of symptoms and effects...
x Hyperthyroidism Caleb Hillier Parry Amiodarone Tremor Methimazole
Hyperthyroidism is the term for overactive tissue within the thyroid gland, resulting in overproduction and thus an excess of circulating free thyroid hormones: thyroxine (T4), triiodothyronine (T3), or both. Thyroid hormone is important at a...
Inflammation Tachycardia Propylthiouracil
Pregnancy Dyspnea Radioactive iodine therapy
Pretibial myxedema Beta blocker
Irritability Thyroidectomy
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x Hemiparesis Hemiparesia      
Hemiparesis is weakness on one side of the body. Contrast with Hemiplegia, which is total paralysis of the arm, leg, and trunk on the same side of the body. Hemiparesis is generally caused by lesions of the corticospinal tract, which runs down from...
x Erectile dysfunction ED circle Tobacco smoking Sexual dysfunction Sildenafil
Erectile dysfunction (ED or "male impotence") is a sexual dysfunction characterized by the inability to develop or maintain an erection of the penis sufficient for satisfactory sexual performance. An erection occurs as a hydraulic effect due to...
Atherosclerosis Soft erections Vardenafil
Anxiety Priapism Alprostadil
Substance abuse Tadalafil
Adverse drug reaction Penile prosthesis
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x Interstitial cystitis        
Interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome (commonly abbreviated to "IC/PBS"), is a urinary bladder disease of unknown cause characterised by pain associated with urination (dysuria), urinary frequency (as often as every 10 minutes), urgency,...
x Inclusion body myositis        
Inclusion body myositis (IBM) is an inflammatory muscle disease, characterized by slowly progressive weakness and wasting of both distal and proximal muscles, most apparent in the muscles of the arms and legs. There are two types - sporadic...
x Kwashiorkor Kwashiorkor 6180 Coeliac disease Abdominal distension Dietary supplement
Kwashiorkor is a virulent form of childhood malnutrition characterized by edema, irritability, anorexia, ulcerating dermatoses, and an enlarged liver with fatty infiltrates. The presence of edema caused by poor nutrition defines kwashiorkor. The...
Starvation Leopard skin High protein diet
Malnutrition Hepatomegaly High caloric diet
Poor sanitation Missing tooth
Diarrhea
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x Lassa fever Lassa virus      
Lassa fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic fever first described in 1969 in the town of Lassa, in Borno State, Nigeria located in the Yedseram river valley at the south end of Lake Chad. Clinical cases of the disease had been known for over a decade...
x Learning disability        
In the United States and Canada, the term learning disability is used to refer to psychological and neurological conditions that affect a person's communicative capacities and potential to be taught effectively. The term includes such conditions as...
x Systemic lupus erythematosus Clearance deficiency   Pyrexia Chemotherapy
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE or lupus, pronounced sɪˈstɛmɪk ˈluːpəs ˌɛrəˌθiməˈtoʊsəs (help·info)) is a chronic autoimmune connective tissue disease that can affect any part of the body. As occurs in other autoimmune diseases, the immune system...
Fatigue Immunosuppressive drug
Malaise Corticosteroid
Myalgia
Malar rash
x Lung cancer Lung cancer Tobacco smoking Dyspnea Radiation therapy
Lung cancer is a disease of uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. This growth may lead to metastasis, which is the invasion of adjacent tissue and infiltration beyond the lungs. The vast majority of primary lung cancers are carcinomas of...
Passive smoking Hemoptysis Surgery
Personal history of lung cancer Cough Chemotherapy
Air pollution Chest pain Targeted therapy
Exposure to asbestos Cachexia Adjuvant
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x Leukemia Acute leukemia-ALL Human T-lymphotropic virus Headache Stem cell transplantation
Leukemia (British English: leukaemia) (Greek leukos λευκός, "white"; aima αίμα, "blood") is a cancer of the blood or bone marrow and is characterized by an abnormal proliferation (production by multiplication) of blood cells, usually white blood...
Down syndrome Infection Radiation therapy
Chemotherapy Sleep hyperhidrosis Immunotherapy
Environmental exposure to carcinogens Dizziness Chemotherapy
Radiation poisoning Bone pain Imatinib
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x Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome 1. Axon2. Neuromuscular junction3. Muscle fiber4. Myofibril      
Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS) is a rare autoimmune disorder that affects voltage-gated calcium channels on the pre-synaptic membrane of the nerve-muscle (neuromuscular) junction. The inhibition of the voltage-gated calcium channels...
x Lymphedema 04 Jan 2003 (9)      
Lymphedema, also known as lymphatic obstruction, is a condition of localized fluid retention and tissue swelling caused by a compromised lymphatic system. The lymphatic system returns the interstitial fluid to the thoracic duct and then to the...
x Muscular dystrophy 59b470cw.jpg Family history of muscular dystrophy Muscle weakness Mexiletine
Muscular dystrophy (abbreviated MD) refers to a group of genetic, hereditary muscle diseases that weaken the muscles that move the human body. Muscular dystrophies are characterized by progressive skeletal muscle weakness, defects in muscle proteins...
Ptosis Carbamazepine
Dyspnea Dantrolene
Gonadal atrophy Physical therapy
Difficulty walking Baclofen
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x Myasthenia gravis 1. Axon2. Neuromuscular junction3. Muscle fiber4. Myofibril D-penicillamine ingestion Muscle weakness Cyclosporine
Myasthenia gravis (from Greek μύς "muscle", ἀσθένεια "weakness", and Latin gravis "serious"; abbreviated MG) is a neuromuscular disease leading to fluctuating muscle weakness and fatiguability. It is an autoimmune disorder, in which weakness is...
Rheumatoid arthritis Progressive external ophthalmoplegia Mycophenolate Mofetil
Lupus erythematosus Dysphonia Thymectomy
Family history for myasthenia gravis Lower motor neurone lesion Corticosteroids
Female Dysphagia Neostigmine
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x Mania mania_250x251.jpg Drug abuse Euphoria Antipsychotic
Mania (from Greek μανία from μαίνομαι - mainomai, "to rage, to be furious") is a severe medical condition characterized by extremely elevated mood, energy, unusual thought patterns and sometimes psychosis. There are several possible causes for mania...
Tumor Grandiose delusion Mood stabilizer
Impulsivity Calcium channel blocker
Hypersexuality Anticonvulsant
Racing thoughts
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x Malaria Plasmodium   Rigor Antimalarial drug
Malaria is a vector-borne infectious disease caused by a eukaryotic protist of the genus Plasmodium. It is widespread in tropical and subtropical regions, including parts of the Americas, Asia, and Africa. Each year, there are approximately 350–500...
Pyrexia
x Meconium aspiration syndrome Meconium-laden macrophages high mag      
Meconium aspiration syndrome (MAS, alternatively "Neonatal aspiration of meconium") occurs when infants take meconium into their lungs during or before delivery. Meconium is the first stool of an infant, composed of materials ingested during the...
x Migraine Migraine gender age      
Migraine is a neurological syndrome characterized by altered bodily perceptions, severe headaches, and nausea. Physiologically, the migraine headache is a neurological condition more common to women than to men. The word migraine was borrowed from...
x Neuromyotonia        
Neuromyotonia, also known as Isaacs' Syndrome, is spontaneous muscular activity resulting from repetitive motor unit action potentials of peripheral origin. It develops as a result of both acquired or hereditary diseases. Acquired form is more...
x Narcolepsy 1R02      
Narcolepsy is a chronic sleep disorder, or dyssomnia. The condition is characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) in which a person experiences extreme fatigue and possibly falls asleep at inappropriate times, such as while at work or at...
x Nitrogen narcosis Relative narcotic potency      
Narcosis while diving (also known as nitrogen narcosis, inert gas narcosis, raptures of the deep, Martini effect) is a reversible alteration in consciousness that occurs while scuba diving at depth. It produces a state similar to alcohol...
x Osteoporosis Bone density scanner Menopause Back pain Teriparatide
Osteoporosis is a disease of bone that leads to an increased risk of fracture. In osteoporosis the bone mineral density (BMD) is reduced, bone microarchitecture is disrupted, and the amount and variety of non-collagenous proteins in bone is altered....
Tobacco smoking Loss of height Selective estrogen receptor modulator
Old age Kyphosis Hormone replacement therapy
Alcoholism Strontium ranelate
Asian Calcium
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x Optic neuritis Example of how optic neuritis affected one eye of a patient with multiple sclerosis      
Optic neuritis is the inflammation of the optic nerve that may cause a complete or partial loss of vision. The optic nerve comprises axons that emerge from the retina of the eye and carry visual information to the primary visual nuclei, most of...
x Phenylketonuria L-phenylalanine-skeletal   Microcephaly  
Phenylketonuria (PKU) is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder characterized by a deficiency in the hepatic enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH). This enzyme is necessary to metabolize the amino acid phenylalanine ('Phe') to the amino acid...
Hypopigmentation
Seizure
Albinism
Hyperactivity
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x Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia Pneumocystis      
Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) or pneumocystosis is a form of pneumonia, caused by the yeast-like fungus Pneumocystis jirovecii. This pathogen is specific to humans. It has not been shown to infect other animals, while other species of Pneumocystis...
x Psychosis /guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000490c66d Family History of Psychosis Delusion Electroconvulsive therapy
Psychosis (from the Greek ψυχή "psyche", for mind or soul, and -ωσις "-osis", for abnormal condition) literally means abnormal condition of the mind, and is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state often described as involving a "loss of...
Adolescence Hallucination Antipsychotic
Thought disorder Cognitive behavioral therapy
Depression Family Therapy
Mental confusion Animal-Assisted Therapy
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x Paranoia        
Paranoia is a thought process heavily influenced by excessive anxiety or fear, often to the point of irrationality and delusion. Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs concerning a perceived threat towards oneself. In the original...
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