Category: T

A ventricular tachyarrhythmia that can be induced by certain antipsychotic and antidepressant medications. A rapid and unstable type of ventricular tachy cardia characterized by shifts in the QRS complex in a manner that appears to shift or twist. A rapid, unstable form of ventricular tachycardia in which the QRS complexes appear to twist, or shift,…

The fear of specific places or situations. An irrational and intense fear of specific places, known as agoraphobia.  

Freud’s model of the topography of the mind, first described in terms of the conscious-preconscious-unconscious and a simple conflict theory of the conscious opposing the unconscious. The more complex structural model of id, ego, and superego, and its correlated concept of intersystemic conflicts, replaced the topographic model, leading to a shift in clinical focus from…

An anticonvulsant medication sometimes used as a mood stabilizer to treat bipolar disorder. Marketed under the brand name topamax.  

Brand name for the anticonvulsant drug topiramate.  

An adjunctive medication used in combination with carbidopa-levodopa therapy for patients with severe parkinson’s disease. Tolcapone inhibits the metabolism of levodopa by catechol-omethyltransferase (COMT), allowing greater levels of levodopa to penetrate the brain, where it can be converted to dopamine. Marketed under the brand name tasmar.  

A system involving the application of the principles and procedures of operant conditioning to the management of a social setting such as a ward, classroom, or halfway house. Tokens are given contingent on completion of specified activities and are exchangeable for goods or privileges desired by the patient. An arrangement for operant behavior modification in…

Brand name for the tricyclic antidepressant drug imipramine. A commercial preparation of imipramine.  

In dsm-iv-tr, this category includes tourette’s disorder, chronic motor or vocal tic disorder, transient tic disorder, and tic disorder not otherwise specified; all but the last type begin before age 18 years. Chronic tics may occur many times a day, nearly every day, or intermittently over a period of more than a year. Transient tics…

A disturbance of speech, communication, or content of thought, such as delusions, ideas of reference, poverty of thought, flight of ideas, perseveration, and loosening of associations. Thought disorder is often used synonymously with the term psychosis. A symptom of schizophrenia, characterized by incoherence, loose associations, and distortion of concrete reasoning. Abnormal thinking that is pathological,…