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Perception as modified and enhanced by one’s own emotions, memories, and biases. A process of focusing the perception of or being actively aware rather than being passively aware. The conscious recognition of a stimulus. Whole perception process: receiving, recognizing, appreciating, assimilating, and interpreting stimuli taken in by the senses (e.g., hearing the roar of a…

A dopamine agonist medication (indicated for subcutaneous use only) used as adjunctive therapy in advanced parkinson’s Disease. Marketed under the brand name apokyn. A substance that comes from morphine, used to make a person cough, sleep or be sick. An emetic that produces its effect by direct action on the vomiting center in the brain.…

The gene that encodes apolipoprotein E (ApoE), a protein that plays an important role in the breakdown of triglycerides, cholesterol, and other fats in the bloodstream. Of the gene’s three alleles (called ε2, ε3, and ε4), the APOE ε4 variant represents the largest known risk factor for late-onset alzheimer’s disease in a variety of ethnic…

Brand name for the antiparkinsonian medication apomorphine.  

An invertebrate marine mollusk that has been subjected to extensive studies of cellular mechanisms of learning and memory because changes in its behavior may be linked to physiological and biochemical changes in specific neurons. Its neurons are 10 times the size of mammalian neurons, and its nervous system is composed of a limited number of…

From the greek “without voice,” the inability to speak, either because of psychological factors such as a fear of speaking in public or because of brain damage. Patients with aphemia are aware of their speech impairment and are able to understand speech. A form of dysphemia.    

The fear of infinity.  

Lack of feeling, emotion, interest, or concern. The condition of not being interested in anything, or of not wanting to do anything. Absence or suppression of feeling, concern, passion; indifference to things generally found exciting. Lacking interest, indifference associated with major depression and other psychiatric conditions. Indifference; insensibility; lack of emotion. Apathy refers to the…

An early psychoanalytic term for what is now called phobia. Hysteria combined with an anxiety neurosis.  

In dsm-iv-tr, this category of disorders includes panic disorder with and without  goraphobia, agoraphobia without a history of panic disorder, specific phobia, social phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder (ptsd), acute stress disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, anxiety disorder due to a general medical condition, and substance-induced anxiety disorder. A disorder in which anxiety is the…