Oligophrenia
Oligophrenia is an old medical word that means a long-lasting problem with learning, thinking, and daily life skills that starts in childhood. Today doctors almost never use this word, because it is ...
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Very Early-Onset Schizophrenia (VEOS)
Very early-onset schizophrenia (VEOS) is a serious brain illness. In this condition, a child has strong problems with thinking, feelings, and behavior. The child may see or hear things that are not ...
Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia
Childhood-onset schizophrenia is a serious mental health disorder where a child loses touch with reality. This means the child may see, hear, or believe things that are not really there. Doctors ...
Symbiotic Psychosis
Symbiotic psychosis is a rare mental health problem where two or more people who are very close to each other share the same strange belief (delusion). One person usually has a true psychotic illness ...
Disintegrative Psychosis
Disintegrative psychosis is an old name for a very rare child development problem now called childhood disintegrative disorder (CDD). In this condition, a child grows and learns in a normal way for ...
Childhood Disintegrative Disorder (CDD)
Childhood disintegrative disorder (CDD) is a very rare brain and development problem in children. A child grows and learns normally for at least the first 2–3 years. Then, between about 3 and 10 ...
Pedophilia
Pedophilia is a mental health condition in which a person has recurrent, intense sexual thoughts, urges, or fantasies about prepubescent children (children who have not started puberty). In standard ...
Emotional Dysexecutive Syndrome
Emotional Dysexecutive Syndrome is a condition in which damage to executive brain networks—especially in the frontal lobes—impairs a person’s ability to regulate emotions. Individuals may find it ...
Behavioural Dysexecutive Syndrome (BDS)
Behavioural Dysexecutive Syndrome (BDS) is a pattern of problems that arise when the brain’s “executive” control system becomes impaired. Executive functions include planning, decision-making, ...
Cognitive Dysexecutive Syndrome
Cognitive Dysexecutive Syndrome is a pattern of thinking and behavior problems resulting from damage to the brain’s executive control systems. These systems—often associated with the frontal lobes ...
Dysexecutive Syndrome
Dysexecutive syndrome (DES) is a pattern of cognitive, behavioural, and emotional difficulties that arise when the brain’s executive functions are impaired. Executive functions are higher‐order ...
Types of Personality Disorders
Personality disorders (PD) are a class of mental health conditions characterized by enduring maladaptive patterns of behavior, cognition, and inner experience, exhibited across many contexts and ...
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is a mental health condition where a person has an inflated sense of self-importance, a deep need for admiration, and a lack of empathy for others. This ...
What Is Ringxiety?
In our modern, always-connected world, many people have experienced the strange sensation of feeling their phone vibrate even when it hasn’t. This phenomenon, known as ringxiety or phantom vibration ...
Hypochondria
Hypochondria is a condition where a person is excessively worried about having a serious illness—even when medical tests show no sign of one. People with hypochondria often misinterpret normal body ...
Oniomania
Oniomania, sometimes called compulsive shopping or shopping addiction, is a condition where a person feels an overwhelming impulse to shop and spend money—even when it causes financial, emotional, or ...
Unmarital Sex Addiction
Unmarital sex addiction is generally described as a compulsive preoccupation with sexual thoughts and behaviors that occur outside of a traditional marital relationship. This condition may lead to ...
Phrodisiac Addiction
Aphrodisiac addiction refers to a pattern of behavior in which a person develops a compulsive use or dependence on substances marketed as aphrodisiacs—agents that enhance sexual desire or ...
Adulteress Addiction
Adulteress addiction generally refers to a compulsive need to engage in extramarital or adulterous affairs. This behavior may be driven by psychological, emotional, and even biological factors. ...
Drug Sensitization
Reverse tolerance (drug sensitization) is a pharmacological phenomenon where there is an increase in the potency of a drug caused by factors like the drug-taking individual becoming more sensitive or ...
