Mental disorder
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Used for
mental illness, psychological disorder
Broader Terms
Narrower Terms
anxiety disorder, Asperger syndrome, autism, behavior disorder, child mental disorder, clinical anxiety, cognition disorder, learning disorder, mental retardation, mood disorder, neurosis, personality disorder, pervasive developmental disorder, psychomotor disorder, psychopathology, psychosis, psychosomatic disorder, sex behavior disorder, substance abuse related disorder
Related Terms
abnormal psychology, brain disorder, developmental disease /disorder, mental health, neurologic manifestation
Scope Note
any of various conditions characterized by impairment of an individual's normal cognitive, emotional, or behavioral functioning, and caused by social, psychological, biochemical, genetic, or other factors, such as infection or head trauma; note behavior disorders are a subset of mental disorder.
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- If a general medical condition or another mental disorder is present, the fear in Criterion A is unrelated to it; (e.
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- When a mental disorder is judged to be a direct physiological consequence of the general medical condition, a Mental Disorder Due to a General Medical Condition should be diagnosed on Axis I and the general medical condition should be recorded on both Axis I and Axis III.
- Am I being too inclusive? According to DSM IV, "There is no assumption that each category of mental disorder is a completely discrete entity with absolute boundaries dividing it from other mental disorders or from no mental disorder at all.
- Debra Lafave's moment in the sun will turn to rain when we all finally realize that a crime is still a crime, no matter what flavor of the month mental disorder is being served up.
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