Category: L

A potent hallucinogen that produces psychotic symptoms and behavior such as hallucinations, illusions, body and time-space distortions, and, less commonly, intense panic or mystical experiences. A semisynthetic hallucinogen derived from the fungus, ergot. A powerful hallucinogenic drug which can cause psychosis. A psychedelic drug that is also a hallucinogen. It has been used to aid…

Brand name (now discontinued) for the conventional antipsychotic drug loxapine. A commercial preparation of loxapine.  

A conventional antipsychotic medication (a dibenzoxazepine) used in the treatment of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. Now available only as generic but may still be known by the discontinued brand name loxitane. Tranquilizer used to treat schizophrenia. Adverse effects include low blood pressure, liver toxicity, and hypersensitivity reactions.  

Failure to restrain impulses, functions, or actions that ordinarily can be regulated consciously (e.g., aggressive actions, sexual impulses, bladder and bowel emptying). In relation to alcohol and other substances, loss of control refers to an impaired ability to modulate the amount or frequency of substance intake once any amount of the substance has been administered.…

A benzodiazepine anxiolytic medication used to treat various anxiety disorders and insomnia. Marketed under the brand name ativan. In a group of drugs known as benzodiazepines, this medication, which is also known as Ativan, is used to treat anxiety. A mild tranquilliser that people often receive before surgery to lessen anxiety. Benzodiazepine tranquilizer used to…

A disturbance of thinking evident in a person’s speech in which the person shifts from one subject to another subject unrelated or minimally related to the first. Statements made by the person that lack a meaningful relationship may be juxtaposed, or speech may shift suddenly from one frame of reference to another. The person gives…

The strengthening of connections between two nerve cells that lasts for an extended period of time. Studies of LTP are often carried out with slices of the hippocampus. LTP shares many features with long-term memory, making it an attractive candidate for a cellular mechanism of learning. The ability of the nervous system to retain information…

The final phase of memory in which information storage may last from hours to a lifetime. Contrast with immediate memory. The recall of events or information from the distant past. The storehouse of permanently recorded information in a person’s memory. Recall of experiences or of information acquired in the distant past.  

A form of existential psychotherapy associated with Viktor Frankl (1905–1997). A subtechnique of existential therapy.  

Uncontrollable, excessive talking. Rapid flow of words, often incoherent, associated with some mental disorders. A rapid flow of voluble speech, often with incoherence, such as is encountered in mania. Repetitious, continuous and excessive speech. It may be a symptom of mania or some forms of intoxication.