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Antisocial personality disorder
Characterized by a pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others. Manifestations may include superficiality; lack of empathy or remorse, with callous unconcern for the feelings of others; disregard for social norms; poor behavioral control, with irritability, impulsivity, and low frustration tolerance; and inability to feel guilt or to learn from experience…
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ICD-9
The 9th edition of the international classification of diseases.
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Tactile hallucination
Perception of being touched or of something being under one’s skin, such as the sensation of pins being stuck into one’s finger. The sensation of something crawling under one’s skin is called formication; it occurs most frequently in alcohol withdrawal syndrome and in cocaine withdrawal. A false sense of touching something or of objects moving…
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Auditory hallucination
Perception of sound, most frequently of voices but sometimes of clicks or other noises. An imaginary perception of sounds, usually voices. Auditory hallucinations are a hallmark of psychotic illnesses but are also heard by patients with acquired hearing impairments and by some persons with temporal lobe seizures.
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Azilect
Brand name for the antiparkinsonian medication rasagiline.
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Azapirones
A class of psychoactive drugs derived from pierazine that are used as anxiolytics, antidepressants, and antipsychotics. Medications in this class are also commonly used as augmentation to other antidepressants. An example is buspirone (Buspar).
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Avolition
Lack of initiative or goals; one of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia. The person may wish to do something, but the desire is without power or energy. A negative symptom in schizophrenia in which the person lacks interest and drive.
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Avoidant disorder
Social phobia occurring in childhood and adolescence.
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Aversion therapy
A behavior therapy procedure in which stimuli associated with undesirable behavior are paired with a painful or an unpleasant stimulus, resulting in the suppression of the undesirable behavior. A form of negative reinforcement. A treatment by which someone is cured of a type of behaviour by making him or her develop a great dislike for…
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Aventyl
A tricyclic antidepressant used to treat depression and selected anxiety disorders. A brand name for nortriptyline.