The Nervous System - Mental Health:diseases and disorders
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lullyclare on November 29, 2009
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Acute | rapid onset |
| Agoraphobia | a fear of open spaces or of leaving one's home |
| Amnesia | loss of memory |
| Androphobia | a fear of men |
| Anorexia nervosa | eating disorder characterised by severe weight loss as a result of refusing to eat. Person thinks they are fat despite obvious thinness |
| Autism | development disorder arising in early years of life; significantly impaired social and language skills - several categories classified |
| Arachnophobia | a fear of spiders |
| Dysphoria | unpleasant mood |
| Euphoria | exaggerated sense of well being |
| Haemophobia | a fear of blood |
| Hallucination | false perception can be hearing, sight, touch, smell, taste, somatic (within the body): a psychosis |
| Hydrophobia | a fear of drinking |
| Hypochondria | an abnormality in which the person is pre-occupied with imaginary illness |
| Mysophobia | a fear of dirt |
| Nosophobia | a fear of disease |
| Nyctophobia | a fear of darkness |
| Panphobia | a fear of everything |
| Phobia | irrational fear |
| Phobophobia | a fear of phobias |
| Photophobia | a fear of (or intolerence to) light |
| Trichophobia | a fear of hair |
| Xenophobia | a fear of foreigners |
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