Author: Glossary
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Gerstmann-straussler-scheinker syndrome
A rare familial neurological disorder characterized by widespread degeneration of the nervous system, difficulty walking, progressive dementia, and absence of leg reflexes.
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Gerstmann’s syndrome
A neurological disorder characterized by four primary symptoms: Acalculia, Agraphia, and inability to distinguish right form left, and finger agnosia. Gerstmann’s syndrome has been attributed to lesions in the angular gyrus of the dominant inferior parietal lobe. This disease is classified as a spongiform encephalopathy. A condition in which someone no longer recognises his or…
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Gerontophobia
The fear of old people and aging.
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Gerontology
The study of senescence or aging. The specialized branch of medicine concerned with the scientific study of the aging process, clinical, biological, and social, and the problems that aging reveals. The study of the process of ageing and the diseases of old people. Scientific study of aging or of old age. The study of the…
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Geriatrics
A branch of medicine dealing with the aging process and diseases of the aging human being. The specialized branch of medicine concerned with treating the health conditions associated with senescence and senility. The study of the diseases and disorders of old people. A medical subspecialty relating to the care and treatment of elderly people. Medical…
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Geriatric psychiatry
Also called geropsychiatry; an American board of psychiatry and neurology (ABPN) subspecialty of psychiatry that focuses on the prevention, evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of mental and emotional disorders in the elderly, as well as improvement of psychiatric care for healthy and ill elderly people. A branch of psychiatry concerned with the psychological aspects of the…
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Geodon
Brand name for the atypical antipsychotic drug ziprasidone.
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Genital phase
The final phase of psychosexual development, as conceived by Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), and the psychic characteristics of this phase. The genital phase begins at the onset of puberty. The integration of object love with genital sexuality is a primary developmental attainment of this phase. In psychoanalytic theory, the fifth stage in a person’s development, occurring…
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Genetic viewpoint
A psychoanalytic metapsychological hypothesis that is concerned with the origin and development of psychic phenomena in terms of how the past is contained in the present and why an individual adopts certain conflicts and adaptations.
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Genetic marker
A deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequence that is associated with the presence of or vulnerability to a disease. More often than not, the abnormality is not the gene actually responsible for the disorder but a DNA segment that remains physically close to the responsible gene and thus signals the presence of that gene. An observable trait…