Author: Glossary
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Tourette’s disorder
A tic disorder consisting of multiple motor and vocal tics that occur in bouts, either concurrently or separately, almost every day or intermittently over a period of more than 12 months. Also known as gilles de la tourette’s syndrome. A condition which includes involuntary movements, tics, use of foul language and respiratory disorders.
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Torture
The deliberate, systematic infliction of physical and mental suffering for the purpose of forcing people to conform or to reveal information. Infliction of severe mental or physical pain by various methods, usually for the purpose of coercion.
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Torsade de pointes
A ventricular tachyarrhythmia that can be induced by certain antipsychotic and antidepressant medications. A rapid and unstable type of ventricular tachy cardia characterized by shifts in the QRS complex in a manner that appears to shift or twist. A rapid, unstable form of ventricular tachycardia in which the QRS complexes appear to twist, or shift,…
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Topophobia
The fear of specific places or situations. An irrational and intense fear of specific places, known as agoraphobia.
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Topographic model
Freud’s model of the topography of the mind, first described in terms of the conscious-preconscious-unconscious and a simple conflict theory of the conscious opposing the unconscious. The more complex structural model of id, ego, and superego, and its correlated concept of intersystemic conflicts, replaced the topographic model, leading to a shift in clinical focus from…
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Topiramate
An anticonvulsant medication sometimes used as a mood stabilizer to treat bipolar disorder. Marketed under the brand name topamax.
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Topamax
Brand name for the anticonvulsant drug topiramate.
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Tolcapone
An adjunctive medication used in combination with carbidopa-levodopa therapy for patients with severe parkinson’s disease. Tolcapone inhibits the metabolism of levodopa by catechol-omethyltransferase (COMT), allowing greater levels of levodopa to penetrate the brain, where it can be converted to dopamine. Marketed under the brand name tasmar.
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Token economy
A system involving the application of the principles and procedures of operant conditioning to the management of a social setting such as a ward, classroom, or halfway house. Tokens are given contingent on completion of specified activities and are exchangeable for goods or privileges desired by the patient. An arrangement for operant behavior modification in…
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Tofranil
Brand name for the tricyclic antidepressant drug imipramine. A commercial preparation of imipramine.