psychiatrist
A medical doctor who specializes in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders.
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Mind and body do not run in separate lanes, which is why an evaluation weighs the psychological account alongside the physical one.
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A specialist who can talk with patients and their families about emotional and personal matters, and can help them make decisions.
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Loss of insight is what makes psychosis distinctive, since the experiences feel entirely real from the inside rather than obviously mistaken.
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Describes the psychological, social, and spiritual aspects of human activity, such as the care of people with a disease.
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A drug class named for what it does to alertness, familiar from coffee at one end and controlled prescriptions at the other.
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Treatment of mental, emotional, personality, and behavioral disorders using methods such as discussion, listening, and counseling.
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Damping dopamine quiets hallucinations and delusions, but the same block reaches movement and hormone pathways, which is where the side effects begin.
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A type of drug used to treat symptoms of psychosis.
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A scan shows structure, while neuropsychological testing shows what a person can actually do, and the two often disagree.
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New restlessness in an older adult points more often to a physical illness than to a psychiatric one, which is where the search starts.
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Pain can be dulled while touch, movement and awareness stay intact, which is what separates it from being put under.
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Appetite is the physiological drive to eat, regulated by hormones and the brain, and its loss or increase can signal an underlying medical condition.
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Biofeedback trains awareness of involuntary body functions using real time sensor data, applied alongside other care for conditions such as headache and chronic pain.
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A type of psychotherapy that helps patients change their behavior by changing the way they think and feel about certain things.
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A type of psychotherapy that helps patients change their behavior by changing the way they think and feel about certain things.
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Comfort care focuses on relieving symptoms and improving quality of life, most often used to describe care provided near the end of life.
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Crisis intervention aims to reduce immediate risk during an acute emotional crisis rather than provide the ongoing care an underlying problem may need.
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Delirium is a sudden, fluctuating disturbance of attention and awareness that develops over hours to days, distinct from the gradual decline of dementia.
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Two people in identical circumstances can report very different distress, which is why it is asked about directly rather than inferred.
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