Psychopathological syndromes

Neurosis () is a term mainly used today by followers of Freudian psychoanalytic theory to describe mental disorders caused by past anxiety, often anxieties that have undergone repression. In recent history, the term has been used to refer to anxiety-related conditions more generally.

Hypochondriasis or hypochondria is a condition in which a person is excessively and unduly worried about having a serious illness. Hypochondria is an old concept whose meaning has repeatedly changed over its lifespan. It has been claimed that this debilitating condition results from an inaccurate perception of the condition of body or mind despite the absence of an actual medical diagnosis. An individual with hypochondriasis is known as a hypochondriac. Hypochondriacs become unduly alarmed about any physical or psychological symptoms they detect, no matter how minor the symptom may be, and are

Delirium (formerly acute confusional state, an ambiguous term that is now discouraged) is a specific state of acute confusion attributable to the direct physiological consequence of a medical condition, effects of a psychoactive substance, or multiple causes, which usually develops over the course of hours to days. As a syndrome, delirium presents with disturbances in attention, awareness, and higher-order cognition. People with delirium may experience other neuropsychiatric disturbances including changes in psychomotor activity (e.g., hyperactive, hypoactive, or mixed level of activity), disr

psychosomatic disorder

psychiatric factitious disorder

mental illness caused by a lack of thiamine in the brain

Catatonia is a neuropsychiatric syndrome which is most commonly seen in people with underlying mood disorders, such as major depressive disorder, or psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia. People who have catatonia exhibit abnormal movement and behaviors that vary from person to person and may fluctuate in intensity within a single episode.

mental disease

group of mental phenomena

Erotomania, also known as '''de Clérambault's syndrome''', is an uncommon paranoid condition that is characterized by an individual's delusions of another person being infatuated with them. It is listed in the DSM-5 as a subtype of a delusional disorder. Commonly, the onset of erotomania is sudden, and the course is chronic.

tourist experience of being overwhelmed by visiting Paris

psychiatric disorder (syndrome) in which a person holds a delusion that a family member has been replaced by an identical imposter

neuropsychological condition

behavioral disorder in which an adult fakes an illness in (mostly) a child or other proxy(s)

shared psychosis, a psychiatric syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief are transmitted from one individual to another

rare dissociative disorder previously classified as a factitious disorder

syndrome resulting from bilateral lesions of the medial temporal lobe

visual disturbances and the experience of complex visual hallucinations in a blind person

impairment in the clarity of consciousness

mental disorder

Paraphrenia is a mental disorder characterized by an organized system of paranoid delusions with or without hallucinations (the positive symptoms of schizophrenia) and without deterioration of intellect or personality (its negative symptoms).

form of dependence that involves emotional

somatoform disorder that involves heart disease symptoms without any identifiable physiological abnormatlities.

proposed personality disorder in an earlier edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III-R) in 1987

impairements associated with cannabis use

false belief that you emit unpleasant body odours

potential personality changes over time associated with temporal lobe epilepsy

psychological trauma experienced by a rape survivor

Sundowning, or sundown syndrome, prevalent among people with some form of dementia, is characterized by increased confusion and restlessness beginning in the late afternoon and early evening. The term sundowning was coined by nurse Lois K. Evans in 1987 due to the association between the person's increased confusion and the setting of the sun.

syndrome

phenomenon affecting people who seek heroism or recognition

culture-bound syndrome

medical condition

psychological disorder

disorder characterised by impairment of memory, thought disorders etc., due to diffuse psychoorganic brain damage

psychopathological syndrome (constellation of symptoms), occurring in schizophrenia

psychological condition

psychopathological syndrome

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emotional distress often felt by prisoners on death row

dream-like fantastic delusional state (psychopathological syndrome)

auditory hallucination associated with hearing loss

as an aspect of caring for individuals in institutions, their adaptation to routines characteristic of the institutional environment, and/or their loss of adaptation to life outside the institution

pattern of signs and symptoms displayed by a woman who has suffered persistent intimate partner violence

Pseudodementia (otherwise known as depression-related cognitive dysfunction or depressive cognitive disorder) is a condition that leads to cognitive and functional impairment imitating dementia that is secondary to psychiatric disorders, especially clinical depression. Pseudodementia can develop in a wide range of neuropsychiatric disease such as depression, schizophrenia and other psychoses, mania, dissociative disorders, and conversion disorders. The presentations of pseudodementia may mimic organic dementia, but are essentially reversible on treatment and doesn't lead to actual brain degene