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Commitment
A legal process for admitting a mentally ill person to a psychiatric treatment program. The legal definition and procedure vary from state to state although commitment usually requires a court or judicial procedure. Commitment may also be voluntary. A legal process for admission to a psychiatric hospital. An act of legally making someone enter a…
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Cerebral arteriosclerosis
Hardening of the arteries of the brain sometimes resulting in an organic mental dis- order that may be either primarily neurologic (e.g. convulsions, aphasia, chorea, athetosis, parkinsonism, etc.) or primarily psychologic (e.g. intellectual dulling, memory deficits, emotional lability, paranoid delusions, and confusion) or a combination of both. In dsm-iv-tr, it is termed vascular dementia. Arteriosclerosis…
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Brigham, Amariah (1798-1849)
One of the original thirteen founders of the American Psychiatric Association (1844) and the founder and first editor of its official journal, now the American Journal of Psychiatry.
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Brief reactive psychosis
A DSM-III-R category for a psychosis lasting less than one week, with sudden onset after major stress. A disorder in which the person has a sudden onset of psychotic symptoms, such as incoherence, loosening of associations, delusions, and hallucinations, immediately after a severely disturbing event. The symptoms last more than a few hours, but for…
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Bradykinetic syndrome
Neurologic condition characterized by a generalized slowness of motor activity.
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Board-eligible psychiatrist
A psychiatrist who is eligible to take the examinations of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology; a psychiatrist who has completed an approved psychiatric residency training program.
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Bleuler, Eugene (1857-1939)
Swiss psychiatrist whose investigations of dementia praecox led him to outline a modern concept of schizophrenia.
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Mixed
Characterized by concomitant manic and depressive symptoms. Consisting of two or more intermingling substances.
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Bipolar 2
A disorder characterized by mild hypomania generally not requiring treatment. The patients may also have depressive episodes.
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Bipolar 1
A disorder characterized by moderate to severe hypomanic or manic episodes requiring treatment or hospitalization for the excited state. These patients generally have recurrent episodes of depression.
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