Psychosis/Related Articles

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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]

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 or insight technique that relies on communication between a therapist and a client(s) 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]: A personality disorder marked by a pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts. (National Library of Medicine) ^[e]

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]