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Meyer, Adolf (1866-1950)
American psychiatrist, professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University; introduced the concept of psycho-biology.
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Metrazol shock treatment
A rarely used treatment in which a convulsive seizure is produced by intravenous injection of Metrazol (known as Cardiazol in Europe). Introduced by von Meduna in 1934.
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Mental retardation
Significantly sub-average general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period. Low intelligence that renders a person to some extent ineffective in dealing with his or her affairs. The absence of normal mental development, usually measured by the intelligence quotient and considered to be present in individuals scoring…
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Monomania
Pathological preoccupation with one subject. A compulsive preoccupation with one idea or activity. A state of mental disorder in which a person concentrates attention on one idea. The state in which a particular delusion or set of delusions is present in an otherwise normally functioning person. A form of mental illness, in which the affected…
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Megalomania
Pathological preoccupation with delusions of power or wealth. A delusion of grandeur in which a person believes that he or she is an unusually great person or is carrying out spectacular plans and events. A psychiatric disorder in which a person believes they are very powerful and important. Abnormal state of mind in which the…
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Major affective disorders
In DSM-III a group of disorders in which there is a prominent and persistent disturbance of mood {depression or mania) and a full syndrome of associated symptoms. The category includes bipolar disorder and major depression. The disorders are usually episodic but could be chronic. In DSM-IIl-R the term major affective disorders has been changed to…
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Luria, Alexander Romanovich (1902-1977)
Russian neuropsychologist who developed a treatment for aphasia, combining physical and psychological techniques for victims of brain trauma.
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Learning disability
A syndrome affecting school age children of normal or above normal intelligence characterized by specific difficulties in learning to read (dyslexia), write (dysgraphia), and calculate (dyscalculia). The disorder is believed to be related to slow develop- mental progression of perceptual motor skills. Any of several abnormal conditions of children and adults who, although having at…
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Krafft-Ebing, Richard von (1840-1903)
Neuropsychiatrist and student of sexual pathology, remembered for his now classic Psychopathia Sexualis, a pioneering study of sexual aberrations, published in 1886.
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Kraepelin, Emil (1885-1926)
German psychiatrist who developed an extensive systematic classification of mental illnesses. One of the first to delineate the concept of dementia praecox or schizophrenia.
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