Generalized anxiety disorder – synonyms, diagnosis, treatment Synonyms: fear neurosis, anxiety neurosis Definition of generalized anxiety disorder. Anxiety and excitement about everyday things that go on for a long time, accompanied by heavy meditations and anxious anticipation Epidemiology of generalized anxiety disorder. Prevalence rates vary depending on the diagnostic criteria and trigger mechanisms of the […]
Read MoreGebefreniya – synonyms, diagnosis, prognosis Synonyms: juvenile schizophrenia, disorganized form of schizophrenia, Hecker’s schizophrenia, hebephrenic syndrome Definition of hebephrenia. Manifesting schizophrenia in adolescence, with affective-volitional disorders (foolishness, absurd antics, tendency to eccentricity, pronounced features of childishness), accompanied by antisocial behavior (variant malignant adolescent schizophrenia) The main symptoms of hebephrenia. Affective disorders: foolishness, flattening of affect, […]
Read MorePsychosis of pregnancy Psychosis of pregnancy, postpartum and lactation period. Psychosis during pregnancy is a rare phenomenon, psychosis of the postpartum period is found 10 times more often than in any other period of life (especially on the 1st and 2nd postnatal week) – there are, above all, depressive, as well as schizophrenia-like and schizoaffective […]
Read MoreDelusional disorders of inorganic genesis – synonyms, diagnosis, treatment Definition of delusional and psychotic disorders of inorganic origin. Along with schizophrenia, the following psychotic disorders are also included in ICD-10: – Schizotypal disorder (F21) – Chronic delusional disorder (F22) – Acute and transient psychotic disorders (F23), reactive psychoses, cycloid psychoses (Leonhard) – Induced delusional disorder […]
Read MoreCreutzfeldt-Jakob disease – synonyms, diagnosis, treatment Definition of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Subacute spongy encephalopathy (related to the disease kuru, scrapie, bovine spongy encephalopathy = BSE, “mad cow disease”), “prion disease” Epidemiology of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Incidence is 0.8 per 1 million people. Etiopathogenesis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: – Slow virus (prion) – Theory of prions: a prion gene […]
Read MoreArtifact disease (Munchhausen syndrome) – synonyms, diagnosis, treatment Synonyms: simulated disorder, artifact syndrome; fake disorder, Munchhausen syndrome Definition of artifact disease. Simulation and / or artificial induction of physical or mental symptoms of the disease, covert manipulation, “self-destructive” behavior. The author of Munchhausen syndrome is presented in the photo on the right. Epidemiology of artifact […]
Read MoreWho is at risk for Alzheimer’s disease There are a number of factors that prevent the occurrence of the disease in principle. For example, this disease bypasses the side of smoking people, since nicotine triggers special processes in cells that practically block the very possibility of Alzheimer’s disease. But the crude protein, in contrast, leads […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know about Alzheimer’s disease On the initiative of the International Organization for the Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease, September 21 is the World Day to combat this disease in 70 countries around the world. Such close attention to this disease is due to the fact that the population is rapidly aging, and […]
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