Author: Glossary

A trembling or shaking of the body or any of its parts. It may be induced by medication. Rhythmic, quivering movements from involuntary alternating contraction and relaxation of skeletal muscles; tremor may occur as a result of age (senile tremor) or disease (e.g., Parkinsonism, multiple sclerosis, and many degenerative diseases of the nervous system); some…

Lack of response to a specific therapy that ordinarily would be expected to be effective.  

An atypical antidepressant medication (characterized as a serotonin antagonist and reuptake inhibitor [sari]) indicated for the treatment of depression but today used mainly to treat insomnia. Although available only as generic, it may still be known by the discontinued brand name desyrel. An antidepressant drug which has a strong sedative effect, used in the treatment…

A form of acquired brain injury, that occurs when a sudden trauma causes damage to the brain. Symptoms of a TBI can be mild, moderate, or severe, depending on the extent and location of the damage. A person with a mild TBI may remain conscious or may experience a loss of consciousness for a few…

A nonselective and irreversible monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) antidepressant medication used principally to treat depression in patients who have failed to respond to more standard treatments. Marketed under the brand name parnate. An MAO inhibitor used as an antidepressant. Parnate is a commercial preparation. An antidepressant drug, one of the MAO inhibitors, given by mouth…

Brand name for the benzodiazepine anxiolytic drug clorazepate. A commercial preparation of chlorazepate.  

Sexual pleasure derived from dressing or masquerading in the clothing of the opposite sex, with the strong wish to appear as a member of the opposite sex. The sexual origins of transvestism may be unconscious. A sexual variance characterized by emotional and/or sexual gratification derived from dressing in clothes of the opposite sex. It is…

One of the paraphilias, characterized by marked distress over, or acting on, sexual urges involving crossdressing, most frequently in a heterosexual male. The condition may occur with gender dysphoria as part of a gender identity disorder, but more commonly the transvestite has no desire to change his sex but wants only, at a particular time,…

The fear of transsexualism or of transgender people.