Madness/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Psychology [r]: The study of systemic properties of the brain and their relation to behaviour. ^[e]
• Mental illness [r]: A disease of the brain and mind. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Psychosis [r]: A brain disorder characterized by severely distorted sensory perception. ^[e]
  • Schizophrenia [r]: A mental disorder characterized by impaired perception of the individual's environment. ^[e]
• Mood disorder [r]: Those disorders that have a disturbance in mood as their predominant feature. ^[e]
  • Bipolar disorder [r]: A mental illness of the subtype mood disorders which is also known as manic-depressive illness, characterised by the occurrence of manic or hypomanic states alternating with bouts of depression. ^[e]
• Legal insanity [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Neurosis [r]: A term no longer used by scientists any more, it used to describe a set of psychological symptoms such as mental illness or emotional disorders marked by insecurity, anxiety, mild depression, but without serious psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations or delusions. ^[e]
  • Obsessive compulsive disorder [r]: An anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent, persistent obsessions or compulsions. Obsessions are the intrusive ideas, thoughts, or images that are experienced as senseless or repugnant. Compulsions are repetitive and seemingly purposeful behavior which the individual generally recognizes as senseless and from which the individual does not derive pleasure although it may provide a release from tension. ^[e]

Other related topics

• Anger [r]: Add brief definition or description

Articles related by keyphrases (Bot populated)

• Behavior [r]: The actions or reactions of an object or organism, usually in relation to a stimulus or its environment. ^[e]
• Human geography [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Castration [r]: The act of severing or otherwise rendering ineffective the glands that produce androgens and spermatazoa in a man of a male animal; the medical term is orchiectomy and various terms are used in veterinary medicine, such as neutering ^[e]
• Watchful waiting [r]: Active monitoring of a disease, but with no more than symptomatic treatment, based on the chance the disease will either be self-limiting, or will not progress quickly enough to justify potentially hazardous disease-modifying treatment ^[e]
• Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder [r]: Personality disorder characterized by inflexibility, rigid conformity to rules and procedures, perfectionism, moral code, and/or excessive orderliness. ^[e]
• Dependent personality disorder [r]: Condition characterized by a pervasive psychological dependence on other people ^[e]
• Mental illness [r]: A disease of the brain and mind. ^[e]