Category: B

In dsm-iv-tr, an additional condition that may be a focus of clinical attention, especially when it coexists with a disorder such as schizophrenia. The intelligence quotient (iq) is in the 71–84 range.  

The expression of feelings or thoughts transmitted by one’s motions, posture, or facial expressions that have meaning within the context in which they appear. A form of communicating by the posturing of the body and/or its parts. The expression on your face, or the way you hold your body, interpreted by other people as unconsciously…

One’s sense of the self and one’s body; a multidimensional construct that encompasses perceptions, thoughts, and feelings about the body. The way a person perceives his or her own body. The mental image which a person has of their own body. An awareness of one’s body as being separate from the environment, of its parts…

One of the somatoform disorders, characterized by preoccupation with some imagined or slight defect in appearance that causes clinically significant distress or impairs social or occupational functioning. Preoccupation with minor defects in the appearance of the body, particularly the face, with the demand for frequent plastic surgery. A preoccupation with one or more imagined defects…

A psychiatrist who has passed examinations administered by the american board of psychiatry and neurology (ABPN), and thus becomes certified as a medical specialist in psychiatry.    

A component of a substance abuse evaluation that seeks to determine whether detectable amounts of a substance or its metabolites are present in the blood.  

The concentration of a drug in the plasma, serum, or blood. In psychiatry, the term is most often applied to levels of lithium carbonate, tricyclic antidepressants, and anticonvulsants. Maximum clinical responses to these agents have been correlated with specific ranges of blood levels. The concentration of a specific substance in the blood plasma or serum…

A sudden obstruction or interruption in spontaneous flow of thinking or speaking, perceived as an absence or a deprivation of thought. In psychology, involuntary inhibition of recall, ideation, or communication. A psychiatric disorder, in which someone suddenly stops one train of thought and switches to another. Interruption of a train of speech before a thought…

Visual scotoma, a circumscribed area of blindness or impaired vision in the visual field; by extension, an area of the personality of which the subject is unaware, typically because recognition of this area would cause painful emotions. An area of a person’s personality of which he is totally unaware, since recognition would cause painful emotions.…

Originally a concept of Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), indicating a belief that components of both sexes could be found in each person. Today, the term is often used to refer to persons who are capable of achieving orgasm with a partner of either sex. The state of being sexually attracted to both males and females. The…