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Parent topics
- Human biology [r]: Interdisciplinary academic field of biology, biological anthropology, nutrition and medicine which focuses on humans. [e]
- Medicine [r]: The study of health and disease of the human body. [e]
- Psychiatry [r]: The subfield of health sciences concerned with mental disorders. [e]
Subtopics
- Schizophrenia [r]: A mental disorder characterized by impaired perception of the individual's environment. [e]
- Antipsychotic agent [r]: Class of medicines used to treat psychosis and other mental and emotional conditions. [e]
- Paranoid personality disorder [r]: a Behavioral disorder characterized by an exaggerated sensitivity to rejection, resentfulness, distrust, and an inclination to distort experiences and events [e]
- Psychotherapy [r]: An intervention technique that relies on interpersonal communication between a therapist and a client to address specific forms of diagnosable mental illness, or everyday problems. [e]
- Schizoid personality disorder [r]: A personality disorder characterized by a lack of interest in social relationships, a solitary lifestyle and emotional coldness. [e]
- Borderline personality disorder [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
- Autism [r]: Developmental disability that results from a disorder of the human central nervous system. [e]
- Fever [r]: Elevation in the central body temperature of warm-blooded animals caused by abnormal functioning of the thermoregulatory mechanisms. [e]
- Hallucination [r]: Perception of objects, sounds, or sensations having no demonstrable reality, usually arising from a disorder of the nervous system or in response to certain drugs. [e]
- Hallucinogen [r]: General group of pharmacological agents classed as psychoactive drugs, which can cause subjective changes in perception, thought, emotion and consciousness. [e]
- Haloperidol [r]: Dopamine antagonist mainly used to treat schizophrenia and some other psychoses [e]
- Model organism [r]: Species often used in research as models for the study of biological processes. [e]
- Multiple sclerosis [r]: A chronic, inflammatory, demyelinating disease that affects the central nervous system (CNS). [e]
- Neuroleptic malignant syndrome [r]: Hyperthermia in reaction to the use of neuroleptic or antipsychotic drugs, accompanied by extrapyramidal and autonomic disturbances that may be fatal. [e]
- Serotonin syndrome [r]: Potentially fatal drug interaction caused by combining drugs that raise the level of serotonin in the patient's nervous system to dangerously high levels. [e]
