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In a managed care system, the person who decides what medical services a patient may have access to. Often it is the primary care physician, but it also may be a nonphysician case manager. A primary care physician, or occasionally another physician, to whom a defined insured population is assigned and who is required either…

A form of factitious disorder in which a patient feigns psychological symptoms, such as dementia or psychosis, for no apparent gain, except to be a patient. Sometimes called nonsense syndrome, syndrome of approximate answers, or prison psychosis (e.g., two times two equal about five). Commonly used to characterize behavior of prisoners who seek, either conscious!};…

An acetylcholinesterase inhibitor used to improve thinking and memory in patients with early signs of alzheimer’s disease. Marketed under the brand name razadyne (formerly named reminyl).  

The secretion of breast milk in men or in women who are not breast-feeding an infant. Patients with galactorrhea have a high level of prolactin in the blood, which can be caused by a tumor in the pituitary gland or from taking certain medications, such as conventional antipsychotics. A continued discharge of milk from the…

The major inhibitory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system (CNS), binds. Two subtypes of GABA receptors—GABAA and GABAB—have been identified. GABAA receptors also contain binding sites within the receptor complex for benzodiazeines, barbiturates, ethanol, and other GABAergic drugs, which potentiate the inhibitory response to GABA in the presence of these drugs.