Author: Glossary

The final phase of memory in which information storage may last from hours to a lifetime. Contrast with immediate memory. The recall of events or information from the distant past. The storehouse of permanently recorded information in a person’s memory. Recall of experiences or of information acquired in the distant past.  

A form of existential psychotherapy associated with Viktor Frankl (1905–1997). A subtechnique of existential therapy.  

Uncontrollable, excessive talking. Rapid flow of words, often incoherent, associated with some mental disorders. A rapid flow of voluble speech, often with incoherence, such as is encountered in mania. Repetitious, continuous and excessive speech. It may be a symptom of mania or some forms of intoxication.  

The fear of words.  

Brand name for the antiparkinsonian agent carbidopa.  

A small area in the brain stem containing norepinephrine neurons that may play an important role in a person’s experience of anxiety and fear.  

A term used by Latinos in the United States and Latin America to refer to a severe form of chronic psychosis. The condition is attributed to an inherited vulnerability, to the effect of multiple life difficulties, or to a combination of these factors. Symptoms exhibited include incoherence, agitation, auditory and visual hallucinations, inability to follow…

A type of psychosurgery in which one or more nerve tracts in the cerebrum are severed. This procedure is now rarely used in the united states except for intractable obsessive-compulsive disorder. A surgical procedure to sever the connections between two or more lobes of the brain. A surgical operation formerly used to treat mental illness…

One type of advance directive; a competent person’s instructions for medical care, indicating the kind of care that will be consented to or refused. A document devised as a means by which terminally ill people can set limits on the effort to keep them alive beyond the point they would themselves choose. A document in…

Brand name (now discontinued) for lithium carbonate.