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Psychotogenic
Producing a psychosis, usually temporary and due to certain powerful drugs.
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Psychotechnics
The use of psychological methods in the study of economic and social problems.
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Traumatic psychosis
Psychosis or schizophrenia-like illnesses occurring in people who have suffered traumatic brain injury.
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Situational psychosis
Psychosis due to excessive stress in an unbearable environmental situation.
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Postinfectious psychosis
A psychosis following an infectious disease such as meningitis, pneumonia, or typhoid fever.
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Involutional psychosis
Psychosis occurring during the period of bodily and intellectual decline.
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Depressive psychosis
Psychosis characterized by extreme depression, melancholia, and feelings of unworthiness.
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Alcoholic psychosis
Loss of contact with reality that results from acute or chronic alcohol use. Examples are pathological intoxication, delirium tremens, Korsakoff’s psychosis, and acute hallucinosis. The total and final decline that can happen in individuals with chronic alcoholism. In one specific form, known as Korsakoff’s psychosis, the person experiences comprehensive mental, ethical, and social decay. A…
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Psychosine
A glycosylated lipid found in the brains of patients with Krabbe’s disease. It produces premature death of neurons and the clinical features of Krabbe’s disease.
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Psychosensory
Understanding and interpreting sensory stimuli.
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