Alcoholism

Alcoholism is common, serious, and expensive. Physicians confront cirrhosis, cardiomyopathy, pancre

Anorexia nervosa (self-starvation, malnutrition, severe weight loss, extreme weight loss)

Anorexia nervosa is a psychological disease. This condition is hallmarked by an extreme reluctance to consume food as a result of a [[Anim 111]]

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Autism
Autism is a developmental disorder that affects the brain. It is a complex condition that mostly impairs communication, social interaction and creative play. Peo

Bipolar Affective Disorder (Manic Depression)
Bipolar Affective Disorder (BPAD) is a psychological illness that involves severe mood swings. These mood swings take the form of depression or mania

Bulimia Nervosa
Bulimia Nervosa is a psychological disease. Bulimia nervosa is characterised by the episodic, uncontrolled and impulsive binge eating followed by self-induced vomiting<

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) consists of a disabling fatigue that lasts fo

Chronic Pain Syndrome
Chronic pain syndrome encompasses any pain that persists longer than the reasonable expected healing time for the involved tissues. The duration of

Clinical depression(Depression (Clinical depression))

[[Anim 114]] Feelings of depression may be described as feeling sad, blue, unhappy, miserable, or down in the dumps. Most o

Deliberate Self-Harm
"Self-harm" refers to the deliberate, direct destruction of the body that results in tissue damage. When someone engages in self-harm, they may have a variety of intentions; these are discussed be

Delirium(Delirium (Toxic confusional state, Acute organic reaction, Acute confusional state, Acute brain syndrome))
Delirium is a psychological disease. This condition is an acute confusional state, characterised by disturbance of consciousness accompanied by variable degrees of cognitive impairment. It is gen

Developmental Coordination Disorder DCD
Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) affects children and may persist into adult life. It is a delay or impairment in motor development characterised by clumsiness or awkwardness. Children with D

Dissociative disorders
Dissociative disorders (as described in the DSM-IV-TR classification system) are disorder with the essential feature of disrupted "consciousness, memory, identity or perception of the environment." Th

Domestic Violence
Domestic violence is when an individual is in some way hurt by a person that he or she knows. Domestic violence is not limited to physical harm: a person also can be sexually abused or psychologically

Drug abuse (Substance abuse)
[[Anim 92]] Drug abuse and dependence is a psychological disease.

Dyslexia (Developmental reading disorder)
Dyslexia, also commonly known as Developmental Reading Disorder, is a reading disability resulting from the inability of an individual to process and interpret symbols. The widely accepted view to

Female sexual dysfunction
Female sexual dysfunction has long been considered a taboo subject yet women's sexuality is now openly discussed and portrayed on television, in magazines, and on the internet. Women's interest in sex

Foetal Alcohol Syndrome

Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is a pattern of abnormalities with a child caused by exposure of alcohol to a fetus (an unborn baby, still in the womb). Alcohol is known to be what is called a 'terat

Frontotemporal Dementia (Pick's Disease)
Frontotemporal dementia (Pick's disease) is a form of dementia characterised by gradually worsening decline

Gender Identity Disorder
Gender identity disorder is the existence of persistent feelings that your mind and body are of differing genders. It is a sense of inappropriateness of one's anatomic sex. Boys with gender identit

Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is a psychological disease. This condition is characterised by excessive worry about actual circumstances, events or conflicts that occur in everyday life. A

Grief (Mourning; Grieving; Bereavement)

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Lewy Body Dementia LBD
Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), the second most frequent cause of dementia in older adults, is a neurodegenerative disorder associated with abnormal

Male Sexual Dysfunction (Erectile dysfunction, Impotence)
[[Anim 32]] Erectile dysfunction is the inability to get or maintain an erection that is firm enough for a man to have intercourse. With erectile disfunction you may be unable to obtain an erec

Neonatal abstinence syndrome
Neonatal abstinence syndrome is a collection of problems a baby experiences when withdrawing from drugs use (by the mother during pregnancy). Because of this, it is also known as infant narcotic withd

Obesity
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Obesity is defined as being 20% or more over the maximum desirable weight for a man's height or 25% or more in females. It is now consi

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a type of anxiety disorder characterised by the presence of obsessions and compulsions within a patients comprehension and behaviour.

Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)

Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is a behavioural disorder characterised by a ongoi

Panic disorder
Panic disorder is a psychological disease. It is a type of anxiety disorder. Anxiety disorders are classified according to whether the anxiety is persistent (general anxiety) or episodic, with the

Pathological gambling
Pathological gambling is a inpulse-control disorder. This means that a person acts on certain impulse that is potentially harmful but they cannot resist the action. This is not the same as problem gam

Personality disorders
Personality disorder is a psychological disease. A personality can be described as a pervasive "characteristic configuration of behavioural response patterns apparent in everyday life," that

Phobic disorders
A phobia is the irrational fear of an object or situation. The patient is often aware that their fear is irrational but remains powerless to control their reaction. Anxiety disorders are classified

Postnatal Depression (Postpartum Depression)(Postpartum Depression (Postnatal Depression))

[[Anim 114]] Postnatal depression is also known as puerperal depression, postpartum depression, baby blues, and puerperal psychos

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a psychological disease. This condition is commonly associated with an extraordinarily stressful event which is re-lived

Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)
[[Anim 53]] Premenstrual dysphoric disorder or PMDD is a condition associated with severe emotional and physical problems that are linked closely to the menstrual cycle. Symptoms occur regularly i

REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder
Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a newly described disorder, recognized as a distinct clinical entity following a series of reports in 1986 of adults with RBD. RBD is the best

Rett Syndrome (Pervasive Developmental Disorder)
Rett syndrome (RS) is a neurological disorder which also affects many other systems in the body. In 1965 Andreas Rett, an Australian physician identified a syndrome in 22 girls who, after 6 months of

Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a long term mental illness. The disease is characterised by positive and negative symptoms. The positive symptoms are those such as hallucinations (s

Seasonal affective disorder
Seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, is a form of depression that is linked into the years seasonal changes. The majority of sufferer's of SAD are depressed only during the late autumn and winter a

Somatoform disorders (Briquet's syndrome)
A somatoform disorder is a clinical complaint of symptoms made by a patient for which there is no physical exidence of disease. There are five main types of somatoform disorder: 1. Hypochondriasis 2.

Stress (Anxiety)
Stress is defined as an organism's total response to environmental demands or pressures. When stress was first studied in the 1950's, the term was used to denote both the causes and the experienced ef

Suicide and attempted suicide (deliberate self-harm)
Suicide describes the intentional act of killing oneself. Identification of patients at risk of this behaviour is the most difficult but important task of psychiatry.

Tardive Dyskinesia
Tardive Dyskinesia is thought to be caused by antipsychotic medications that act on dopamine receptors in the central nervous system. It should be noted, however, that Tardive Dyskinesia was seen in s

Tourette Syndrome (Gilles de la Tourette syndrome)

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Virtual Psych Centre Full Disease List

Alcoholism

Alzheimer's Disease

Anorexia nervosa (self-starvation, malnutrition, severe weight loss, extreme weight loss)

Autism

Bipolar Affective Disorder (Manic Depression)

Bulimia Nervosa

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Chronic Pain Syndrome

Clinical depression(Depression (Clinical depression))

Deliberate Self-Harm

Delirium(Delirium (Toxic confusional state, Acute organic reaction, Acute confusional state, Acute brain syndrome))

Developmental Coordination Disorder DCD

Dissociative disorders

Domestic Violence

Drug abuse (Substance abuse)

Dyslexia (Developmental reading disorder)

Female sexual dysfunction

Foetal Alcohol Syndrome

Frontotemporal Dementia (Pick's Disease)

Gender Identity Disorder

Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

Grief (Mourning; Grieving; Bereavement)

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Lewy Body Dementia LBD

Male Sexual Dysfunction (Erectile dysfunction, Impotence)

Neonatal abstinence syndrome

Obesity

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)

Panic disorder

Pathological gambling

Personality disorders

Phobic disorders

Postnatal Depression (Postpartum Depression)(Postpartum Depression (Postnatal Depression))

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)

REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder

Rett Syndrome (Pervasive Developmental Disorder)

Schizophrenia

Seasonal affective disorder

Somatoform disorders (Briquet's syndrome)

Stress (Anxiety)

Suicide and attempted suicide (deliberate self-harm)

Tardive Dyskinesia

Tourette Syndrome (Gilles de la Tourette syndrome)

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