Common Behavioral Disorder Terms
Terms
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- Anorexia nervosa
- An eating disorder characterized by failure to maintain body weight, intensive fear of gaining weight, desire to be thin.
- Anxiety disorder
- An emotional disorder characterized by feelings of apprehension, tension or uneasiness arising typically from the anticipation of unreal or imagined danger
- Attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- A disorder of learning and behavioral problems characterized by marked inattention, impulsiveness and hyperactivity.
- Bipolar disorder
- A major psychological disorder typified by a disturbance in mood. The disorder is manifested by maniac and depressive episodes that may alternate or may occur simultaneously
- Bulimia nervosa
- An eating disorder characterized by uncontrolled binge eating followed by purging (induced vomiting)
- Major depression
- A mood disturbance characterized by feelings of sadness, despair, and discouragement. Depression ranges from normal feelings of sadness (resulting from and proportional to personal los
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- A disorder characterized by intrusive, unwanted thoughts that result in the tendency to perform repetitive acts or rituals (compulsions) usually as a means of releasing tension or reli
- Panic attack
- An episode of acute anxiety, occurring unpredictably, with feelings of acute apprehension, dyspnea, dizziness, sweating, and/or chest pain
- Phobia
- A marked and persistent fear that is excessive or unreasonable cued by the presence or anticipation of a specific situation or object
- Pica
- Compulsive eating of non-nutritive substances such as clay or ice. This condition is often a result of an iron deficiency. When iron deficiency is the cause of pica the condition will
- Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- A disorder characterized by an acute emotional response to a traumatic event or severe emotional stress such as an airplane crash, repeated physical or emotional trauma, or military co
- Schizophrenia
- Any one of a large group of psychotic disorders characterized by gross distortions of reality, disturbance of language and communication, withdrawal from social interaction, and the di
- Somatoform disorders
- Physical symptoms for which no known physical cause exists.
- AD
- Alzheimer disease
- ADHD
- Attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder
- ALS
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- CNS
- Central nervous system
- CP
- Cerebral palsy
- CSF
- Cerebrospinal fluid
- CVA
- Cerebrovascular accident
- EchoEG
- Echoencephalography
- EEG
- Electroencephalogram
- EP studies
- Evoked potential studies
- LP
- Lumbar puncture
- MRI scan
- Magnetic resonance imaging scan
- MS
- Multiple sclerosis
- OCD
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- PD
- Parkinson disease
- PET scan
- Positron emission tomography scan
- PNS
- Peripheral nervous system
- PTSD
- Posttraumatic stress disorder
- TIA
- Transient ischemic attack